Where We Are in Place and Time- Week 13

This week was our celebration of learning and our winter performance. The kindergartners had practiced their song and dance to ,"It`s a Small World", for weeks. They were so excited to finally get the chance to perform. The performance seemed to be a great success and was enjoyed by all.

 In our current inquiry, Where We are in Place and Time, the students have been inquiring about their own personal histories. Part of understanding their identity is to understand the culture of their countries of origin. One way the students explored their cultural identities was by wearing traditional dress for our winter performance. All of the students wore something during the performance that reflected their native lands. Additionally, the students enjoyed sharing their outfits during show and tell. It was truly a unique and amazing experience for the children to see such a large representation of cultures.

Thank you all for your support with the celebration of learning! I hope you all have a wonderful and relaxing holiday break.

Some of the kindergartners participated in skit about bullying at the beginning of the week. They had been practicing for a week and presented with grade 1 in front of the entire school.

The students sharing their homework on different ways you could sequence something. This was a continuation of our inquiry on sequencing. The students came up with many things you could sequence; such as the steps to making cotton candy or making hot chocolate.

フルーツバスケット Fruit basket turnover

In Japanese class,Kindergarten enjoyed playing the fruit basket turnover this week.
There were 4 groups, "Ojiisan" from "Hanasaka jiisan" story, "Kaguya-hime", "Saru Kani" and "Momotaro".
After this game, we also played the musical chair with Momotaro song.

 

  

Where We Are in Place and Time- Week 12

This week Kindergarten continued the inquiry personal histories inform our lives, by focusing on the cultural significance and history of bread. The students listen to the story Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris. In this book the students discovered that people all over the world eat all different types of breads. For show and tell, the students were given the opportunity to bring in breads from their native countries. Many of the breads were traditional and have had long histories in their countries of origin. The students really seemed to enjoy learning about the different types of bread. They especially loved practicing the IB learner profile attribute of being open-minded when they sampled all of the breads.

This week the students also continued their inquiry on sequence by conducting a simple science experiment. All of the students were given an opportunity to put an egg in vinegar. The eggs were placed in the vinegar all week and the students have been recording the changes of the egg. When finished the students will have a complete illustrated sequence of what happens to an egg if it is put in vinegar,

PMP in the classroom.

Egg experiment.

Adding illustrated pictures of our bread to the treasure chests.

The students have been facilitating morning meeting.

Dominoes during math center time. 

Some parents joined us for our show and tell about bread. Here we are learning about the history of bread from Australia.

The students continued an inquiry of sorting this week by sorting different colored materials into a color wheel.

Recording our observations.