PRE-K Welcome Back!

I would like to welcome everyone back,

and hope you all had an amazing, relaxing Winter Break!

A warm welcome to Daniel who started in our classroom and is doing so well!

Our students were being principled and caring for taking care of our new friend.

At the beginning of this week, we drew on a piece of paper 

what we did during the holiday,

and shared it to our classmates!

We also asked each other questions too.

We got together with Preschool and made 

snow using baking powder, flour and vegetable oil.

We took turns and used our hands to mix them together,

and observed how the texture changed as we mixed.

then... we left it in the freezer for a day...

...students said it felt cold, soft and like real snow!

Then we had a deeper conversation how do we make ice

and what happens when it gets warm,

and this really got our students to think deeply

We had 'Game Time',

 students chose a game to play with whoever they want to play with.

All these games gave the students the opportunity to enhance their 

communication skills in English.

Yuna brought in lots of stickers to share with her friends,

and everyone absolutely loved it!

They decorated their old name tags, papers with writing and drawing on them!

 After reading the book called 'Charlie the Firefighter', 

'The Wonderful things you will be' and 

'Help' storybooks that got us thinking

What do I want to be when I grow up?

The students all drew what they want to be 

 and shared with their classmates!

Learning About Winter with Preschool

Welcome back from winter break! We were eager to get back to school and continue our learning. To start, we reviewed our routines and met some new classmates. We worked hard to show our new classmates how to be principled while in the classroom.

Everyone is very careful and focused while working with scissors. We love cutting paper and creating shapes like circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles. Some students even tried to make bullet trains!

Continuing our unit of inquiry, we started with some beautiful watercolor paintings. First, we created our own individual painting, and then, we created a large painting together.

As we learn about January, we started studying snow. Since it is not snowing yet, we decided to make our own snow with Pre-K for a messy, fun, and sensory experience.

Speaking of snow, we all love snowmen so much. We learned a new snowman song that introduces subtraction. We even made our own snowmen out of clay and discussed the difference between our 2D snowmen and 3D snowmen.

To encourage our own reading, 2nd and 4th grade read to us every week. We love showing the older students our favorite books! We also enjoyed learning more about the seasons by reading The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle.

Our class loves games, and so we did a pom pom competition. We split up into three teams, and then we use clothes pins to pick up pom poms and transfer them to our team basket. This helps build fine motor skills so that we will be great writers someday. Then, after we finished, we counted the pom poms together and compared quantities. The yellow team had 46 pom poms! 

We hope you all have a nice weekend.