Last Monday was Karnival day in Germany. To celebrate it, the blue team children played some fun games using balloons.
For our Sharing the Planet unit, we are learning about the different seasons, as well as the differences between night and day.
The blue team wrote sun stories, which we will share with you soon. The children are currently adding some sounds to the story — and we’re still trying to find nice ones for wind, rain, and the sun.
The yellow team continued to learn about the similarities and differences of the things around us, which include the clothes that we wear in different seasons. They looked at the assortment of paperdoll clothes and sorted them according to how they’re used. Then, the children went “clothes shopping” in a made up store, and picked the clothes that they like for their paperdolls. This strengthens the connection with our Who We Are unit, which also focuses on how our choices make up who we are. You’ll definitely see the different styles of each child!
For our Who We Are unit, we focused on how our families play a major part on who we are.
The children shared their family photos with their class this week. They made their own picture frames for their photos.
In the yellow team, the children looked at different types of families all over the world. Since we’re learning about similarities and differences, the children used their thinking skills to identify attributes of different families to see how they can be sorted. It was interesting to listen to their ideas:
“They go together because there are 3 members in all of these families.”
“They belong together because there is only one parent in all of these families”
The children then looked at their own families to see how they are similar and different with their classmates. Each child had an opportunity to show-and-tell their picture, and to talk about their family members. Through the chart that we made, we have discovered that most families in the yellow team have 4 members, and most have 1 sibling. (Please note that the names came from each child’s show-and-tell sharing — feel free to let us know if we need to correct the names or the spelling! 😃 )
The yellow team also learned how to create stories through pictures. They were asked to think of their favorite memory with their family, and to share the sequence of how the events in the story happened. We loved listening to their favorite memories — such as going to Universal Studios Japan or tending to their sick mom! It was fun to get to know the children better through the lens of their family.
It was a wonderful week of sorting for the yellow team — and all of them have gotten better at looking for similar attributes throughout the weeks!
We had a bit of a snow day, too, and the kids requested for a quick run outside to catch the snowflakes. Some caught none, some caught as much as 6 — and others even caught snowflakes with their tongue!
What a productive and fun week it has been for all the Kindergarteners!
Your Kindergarten teachers,
Pam and Azusa
