Pre-KG 2021/ 22 Blog 12
The spirit of ST.MARTIN - Caring and Sharing
This week Pre-Kindergarten and the other classes at DSKI celebrated the festival of St.Martin.
The story is much beloved in Germany and many other countries and symbolizes the spirit of sharing and caring for others.
Even at a very young age children understand these values and we teachers try to nurture them by demonstrating and encouraging.
The Pre-Kindergarten children watched the story of St.Martin and sang the songs accompanying the story in German!
There are several songs like "St.Martin", "Laterne, Laterne" and "Ich geh mit meiner Laterne", and they are all very popular with the children.
We then discussed how we can share and the Pre-Kindergarten children decided that they could share toys, their acorns and some stickers with K1 and K2.
They also showed caring behaviour by helping to decorate the small and big MPR for the festival.
The Pre-Kindergarten children had a lot of fun crafting St.Martin lanterns with their teachers, carefully choosing their favourite shapes and colours for the design.
On 11.11 the Pre-Kindergarten children then walked with their friends from K1. learnt more about St.Martin, got a light for their lanterns and sang in the cozily lit MPR.
What a beautiful celebration and an important occasion to remember that kindness goes a long way!
A big thank you to our PTA at DSKI for providing delicious bread and juice to share and for my St.Martin team members - teachers Ms. Azusa, Ms.Lisa and Mr. Stefan for all their work and wonderful ideas !
And even though the Pre-Kindergarten children are still learning to share toys well, they are already sharing their classroom, their teachers Anita and David (with K1 & K2 for German classes and also for Playgroup) and their smiles and positive attitude with everyone who visits our classroom !
These little lights of mine……let them shine, let them shine, let them shine !
Yours,
Anita Ursula Mönch
DSKI Pre-Kindergarten homeroom teacher
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