Early Years : Pre-KG Blog 30 23.Apr.2021 MOVING ALONG

Pre-KG Blog 30 23.Apr.2021

MOVING ALONG

The Pre-Kindergarten have gone quite in depth with their inquiry in their last unit of “Animals and Food” and they demonstrated increasingly better understanding of the subjects.

They asked many questions and had many reflections, e.g: “Should a caterpillar eat a lollypop ?” “No !” “Why ?” “It is not good caterpillar food. They get stomach ache. And get sick.”

The children started to understand that food is necessary for people and animals. They also said that we need to move around.

So they used their beautiful butterflies for a nice flight experience on the green field.

And we naturally eased into our next unit of “Body and Family”, because we discussed various movements like flying, crawling, walking, running, clapping, climbing and the body parts we use for this.

We played our memory game with bears not only to exercise our brains, but to learn about different body parts.

The children then decided that they would be ready for more exercise, namely balancing on the wooden balance beams in the nearby park and hanging on to the monkey bars.

Well, the balancing proved to be very tricky and needs a bit more practice, but we ended up having a lot of monkeys (their own idea!) hanging onto the balance beams !

Being out in nature had the children use their five senses, by touching grass and leaves, looking at clouds and butterflies, hearing birds, smelling flowers and tasting the fresh air !