Pre-KG 2021/ 22 Blog 26
Book & Culture Week@DSKI x Pre-KG Unit
This week at Pre-Kindergarten was really fantastic and very busy, because DSKI celebrated the “Book & Culture Week”!
The responsible team of teachers as well as many of our school parents created amazing displays of various countries, showcasing our diversity and a multitude of opportunities for crafts, games, dress up, reading, photos, quizzes, story telling and even a sock puppet show.
From Monday to Friday we toured all of the very interesting displays and we learnt so many new things.
Two of the fathers in Pre-KG (Kai’s and Emma’s dads ) are from Canada, so there was a big hello to the moose on the Canada table.
Dolls of stuffed animals and beautiful clothing also held a big attraction for the Pre-KG children at the China and Costa Rica display tables. The Panda in national costume and the pink lama were just adorable.
So were the Pre-KG children in their national costumes !
Suzu’s father visited Germany most recently and brought back some cute snow globes as presents for the children (thank you very much again), so the children seemed to recognize the German flag which is also displayed in the Pre-KG classroom, and they were quite fascinated by the wooden station master doll. We also looked at the book from the Schwäbische Alb where Ms.Anita and Ms.Hanna live when back in Germany.
One of our unit subjects is food, so it didn’t take the children long to discover the grape jelly which represented France and Moldova as grape growing countries.
Thank you, Ms.Oxana for the yummy treats.
Food was also a topic when visiting the Thai booth, where pictures of delicious dishes elicited cries of *oishiso, yummy, I eat it^ from the children. Who would have thought that the children like some of my favourites?
The Philippines booth showed people in a wooden hut doing a traditional dance with bamboo sticks which the children found very interesting. Luckily we would see a similar dance later on funny socks day.
The Pre-KG children recognized their contribution to the Japan booth in form of O-Hinasama. The table and walls were beautifully decorated with Japanese art and all our gourmets were fascinated with the sushi set.
Back in the classroom, the children then created their own set of sushi as part of their unit work, all out of recycled materials (McDonald paper napkins, paper scraps from upper primary, recycled school bento boxes). The children took great care in making their individual pieces and were very proud of their realistic art.
Other activities this week included an Instagram photo booth on national costume day, a “Who am I ?” picture quiz and an exciting morning with many Japanese traditional games and crafts like paper doll Sumo and colourful pinwheels. Thank you so much to Yorinobu's, Chanin's and Emma Ishikawa's mums for their enchanting contributions.
The Pre-KG classroom also hosted the story reading session, songs, a puppet show and Vietnamese dance on Thursday. Thank you so much to Ms.Chinatsu and Ms.Tu Ahn for their charming performances which held all of the EY children and teachers spellbound.
The week finished with another dress up, this time as a favourite book or movie characters and many a colourful costume was seen.
Thank you so much again to the energetic Book and Culture Week team - Ms.Elena, Ms.Faye, Mr.Leo, Mr.Lubin and Ms.Pam (in alphabetical order) for all their effort and great ideas and to all our awesome parents for their incredible contributions. We really all had a fabulous time !
Finally, on top of everything, the Pre-Kindergarten children managed to work on other unit projects, either the sky, land, sea display or making habitats for people and animals.
They created a tent fort and a cardboard barn for the horses and birds, both of which were very popular for their great cooking and role play sessions.
You have amazing, admirable energy, dear Pre-Kindergarten children and you are the ultimate inquirers!
Yours,
Anita Ursula Mönch
DSKI Pre-Kindergarten homeroom teacher
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