Pre-KG 2021/ 22 Blog 10 Autumn Joys

Pre-KG 2021/ 22 Blog 10   Autumn Joys

Autumn is finally upon us, the days have become cooler, but luckily the sun is still shining.

Depending on what country you are from, autumn might mean different things for you - jumping into piles of dried leaves, harvesting apples, pears, berries, wheat and pumpkins, crafting with acorns and chestnuts, eating seasonal food like mushrooms, persimmons and sweet potatoes or letting kites fly on a stubble field.

The Pre-Kindergarten children have been enjoying walks to the nearby park where they made “leaf soup” under the trees and then found a treasure trove of acorns! 

How lucky and happy the children were to collect buckets! full of beautiful, smooth, brown acorns and then share them with their friends in K1 and K2.

The Pre-KG children also helped to wash the sweet potatoes (some of them giants!) which were harvested by their friends of K2 with Ms.Pam at the nearby field.

In autumn we celebrate Thanksgiving and Halloween, so the children looked at many different vegetables, finding them in our books, toy boxes and on puzzles. 

The children liked the little Halloween pumpkins very much and tried to create some out of play dough They made lots of interesting shapes and decorated them nicely with leaves as well.

As the children had collected many items in nature, we decided to make some autumn fairies using our natural resources and white round paper plates. 

The white circles also came in handy, when making some seasonal ghosts, complete with triangle and square shaped facial features.

The children had a lot of fun crafting and decorating our Pre-Kindergarten door for the season.

On Thursday two of the Pre-KG children went on a secret mission with the principal , buying all the cookies and healthy treats (Japanese delicious mikan!) for the children at the school for trick or treat on Friday.

The week ended with cute and colourful costumes, fun games, trick and treating ( thank you to Ms.Azusa, Ms.Miho, Mr.Inman, Ms.Ida and the PTA ) and a lot of dancing in the classroom!

Happy Thanksgiving, Erntedankfest, Halloween or whatever you might be celebrating in this season !

Yours, 

Anita Ursula Mönch

DSKI Pre-Kindergarten homeroom teacher