Pre-KG 2026/ 27 Blog 1 Welcome to the Pre–Kindergarten / Willkommen im Pre–Kindergarten 2026/27

 Pre-KG 2026/ 27 Blog 1 

Welcome to the Pre–Kindergarten / Willkommen im Pre–Kindergarten! 

A big welcome and herzlich Willkommen to all of our Pre–Kindergarten families in the school year 2026/27! 

I hope you all had a fabulous and relaxing summer vacation.

It was wonderful to be back at school and greet all our families at DSKI and in EY including Pre-Kindergarten!

I am honored and very happy to be the Pre–Kindergarten homeroom teacher again this school year as well as the Playgroup, EY GFL / German teacher and one of the German Saturday School teachers.

In the Pre–Kindergarten classroom I will first have the wonderful support of Ms.Harumi and later again of Ms.Nini and the rest of our wonderful and experienced EY team and specialists. 

I would like to welcome Ms.Julia as the new K2 homeroom teacher and EY coordinator and Mr.Lukas as the EY German support.

This year again there will be many shared moments throughout all of the EY classes, especially during Monday morning circle and outside discovery time, but also a stronger collaboration between Pre-Kindergarten and K1 including shared specialist classes like P.E., Library, Music and Art. Ms.Miho and Ms.Kotomi will be the K1 classroom teachers and all the children are already familiar with them!

Pre–Kindergarten class started with welcoming back two of our previous students and having a new friend join from Playgroup ! 

A heartfelt welcome to little Geoffery and his family, we are thrilled to have you with us!

The children seemed to be very happy to be back at school and enjoyed an exciting day with all their friends from EY. They even had their first P.E. lesson with Mr.Brabant who incorporated a fun game using colourful balloons.

As our first unit will focus on "Colour and Shapes", the children enjoyed first matching activities and the exploration of their own classroom and the K1 classroom.

It really was a fabulous and smooth start into the new school year!

The German language will also play a big part of the EY curriculum, therefore I will include some vocabulary and many songs as well as cultural activities which have always proved very popular with the children in the past.

Our first big event will be the Oktoberfest !

Nochmals ein herzliches Willkommen an alle unsere Schulfamilien an der DSKI! 

Ich freue mich auch in diesem Schuljahr wieder die Klassenlehrerin im Pre–Kindergarten zu sein und auch das Deutsch Programm im gesamten Kindergarten zu leiten.

Wir bieten ein vielfältiges Programm in einer sicheren und ansprechenden Umgebung und viele Impulse für all unsere Kinder um zu spielen, entdecken, lernen und glückliche Tage zu verbringen.

I am looking forward to an exciting, fun–filled and happy school year with many new discoveries! 

Yours sincerely, 

Anita Ursula Mönch

DSKI Pre-Kindergarten homeroom teacher 

Playgroup / EY GFL & Deutsch

German Saturday School homeroom teacher

Pre-KG 2025/ 26 Blog 34 Extended Family, Body Control and Summer Holidays !

 Pre-KG 2025/ 26 Blog 34

Extended Family, Body Control and Happy Summer Holidays !

The Pre-Kindergarten class enjoyed a whirlwind of activities with friends and family right until the end of the school year !

The week started with a fabulous yoga session supported by the Indian Consulate and what a meaningful exercise time the Pre-Kindergarten children had with their friends from K1!

The lovely yoga teacher adjusted the movements to this very young age group and the children participated with concentration and joy ! Thank you so much for this opportunity !

Right afterwards we celebrated a birthday in class, with Kasane turning 3 years old. Her mother had baked a delicious sugar free banana cake which we all enjoyed, especially after the yoga session.

Happy, happy 3.birthday, dear Kasane-chan and thank you very much to her mum for the nice treat.

Later in the day, the Pre-Kindergarten children visited the K2 classroom art exhibition again and they really loved the garden of friendship.

Throughout the week, the children continued role playing with the dolls, did stretching exercises with Ms.Nini and talked exitedly about their classroom board where art work and photos of their families could be seen.

The children also happily packed their handmade gifts for their fathers (coasters with chosen recycled bottle caps) which they had made secretly and would present to their dads on the upcoming Father's Day.

This was also the week for the graduation of our Grade 6 students, final German lessons with K2 before they move upstairs to Pre-school 

.....and emotional farewells for teachers and friends who are moving away.

I get very teary during these occasions as many of the children already started in Pre-Kindergarten and now have become bigger and very independent students.

Then the final goodbye of the week was to my own Pre-Kindergarten class and looking at the children I am always in awe about how much progress they have made.

The best part of my job as a Pre-Kindergarten teacher is to witness the growth of these little children, not only physically, but emotionally and socially. The children are caring, confident and communicative and it is a great joy to see what nice friends they have made, also with their classmates from K1 and K2.

A lot of friendships at our school are formed as early as in Playgroup or in Pre-Kindergarten and my biggest wish is that you will always have the support of this wonderful extended family that includes the teachers !

A big thank you to my amazing Pre-Kindergarten team of Ms.Nini and Ms.Kotomi and the whole EY team for all their dedication to the class and their big smiles every day.

And my heartfelt gratitude goes to the parents of this Pre-Kindergarten class 2025/26 who did not have an official PTA representative and all have continuously helped me throughout the year with encouragement and kindness.❤

I truly appreciate everyone of you and this wonderful school year would not have been the same without your unwavering support. 

Vielen herzlichen Dank fuer Ihre Hilfe und Freundlichkeit waehrend dieses Schuljahres. Ich weiss Ihre Unterstuetzung sehr zu schaetzen. ❤

I wish you a fantastic summer break, full of love and laughter with your families and I am looking forward to seeing you all back next school year !

With kind regards, mit freundlichen Grüßen, 

Anita Ursula Mönch

DSKI Pre-Kindergarten homeroom teacher 

Playgroup / EY GFL & Deutsch      

German Saturday School homeroom teacher

Pre-KG 2025/ 26 Blog 33 The Assembly and the Arts

 Pre-KG 2025/ 26 Blog 33

The Assembly and the Arts !

As mentioned in my previous blog, the Pre-Kindergarten children have been very busy in the past weeks, practicing for the upcoming assembly, making all the stage props and creating some wonderful unit related art for our EY Art Exhibition.

Our school has many events and just recently, the UP (upper primary, our oldest children) performed a musical for which they had practiced for weeks and they really did a fabulous performance.

As we have only one MPR with one stage, the Pre-Kindergarten and K1 children had only a very few opportunities to practice, but what an amazing job they did at their Assembly!

Not only considering that the children had very few practice times, but their age and the fact that they had to perform in front of a large amount of people including their parents and the whole student and teacher body, it was fantastic to see how confidently they performed and moved to the songs which were both related to their units.

Old McDonald had a Farm

Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

A big bravo und "Sehr gut gemacht" for our youngest children at school, you are true risk-takers and great entertainers!

The Pre-Kindergarten children also showed confidence when voicing their choices when making their art pieces. They had finished their marble paintings (Kugelbild in German) in the previous weeks, choosing their favourite colours and they also were very sure about what cloth they would like to use for their collage.

I own some beautiful pieces of cloth / material mostly made in Italy and I love when the children can make some stunning art pieces with them.

This collage was a several steps project with the children choosing their print in favourite colour and design. There were also interviews asking the children what they like to play with and how they move their body (our recent unit), so they could choose the additional pieces to mount on the collage. There were dinosaurs, lego, a ball (with a secret), an Anpanman image and a book !

The children and I were so concentrated and focused on making these collages and I was giving them a helping hand, that in the whole process, we forgot to take many pictures. Thankfully there are a few ones where you can see that the children made their own choices and helped gluing. 

Our EY Art exhibition had many visitors including two big groups of children and teachers from another school as well as the whole DSKI community at the SLC and the children's beautiful work got a lot pf praise from everyone!

A lot of interest was also shown by the many visitors in our Pre-KG Performing arts area, with children joyfully using the stick puppets for shows, playing with the dioramas and challenging themselves to the "flip and stand the magic bottle" game. 

It was heartwarming to see how happily the older children engaged in the performing arts corner created by the Pre-Kindergarten children and as some had already started in Pre-KG it was wonderful to see them back !

With all the ongoings in school, the Pre-Kindergarten children still found time to play together quietly, practice the dress up puzzle and dressing the dolls, role play cooking as a family and make some face collages, showing great cutting skills !

All the Pre-Kindergarten children have made so much progress, socially, emotionally and with their language and at the SLC the parents could witness this very positive and amazing development.

Thank you all for coming into school and sharing these meaningful moments with your child ! We were so happy to have you with us !

Next week is already the last week of the school year before the summer holidays and we will have additional exciting activities like a yoga session on Monday and some splashing and water discovery time throughout the week. And yes, we will make those magic bottles with sparkles which were so popular !

Enjoy the weekend with your amazing children and please give them a lot of praise for all their achievements !

With kind regards, mit freundlichen Grüßen, 

Anita Ursula Mönch

DSKI Pre-Kindergarten homeroom teacher 

Playgroup / EY GFL & Deutsch      

German Saturday School homeroom teacher