Pre-KG 2021/ 22 Blog 31
Family Fun and Excursion to Kobe Animal Kingdom
The children started this week with welcoming yet another new friend, this time little Malin.
Malin Vogel and her family have only just arrived from Germany, but Malin fitted right into the class and the Pre-KG children are very happy to have her to play with. Her brother Michel joined K2 and also is making friends fast.
A heartfelt welcome to the whole Familie Vogel to our Pre-KG class and the DSKI community. Herzlich Willkommen !
Malin came on her trial day with her mother and it is always interesting for the children to see their friends’ parents.
When the Pre-KG children planted the seeds that the PTA had kindly given us into the egg shells, they were very interested in the process.
Then Malin’s mum told us that her daughter also sometimes plants seeds with her at home, so I asked the Pre-KG children what kind of activities they do with their parents or their family.
It turns out that they have a lot of fun together - going to the park on slides and swings, building train tracks at home together, playing soccer and riding bicycles.
The children are now talking more and more about their families and slowly most of them seem to grasp the idea who actually belongs to their family.
Using lego figurines they build different settings and it was wonderful to see the children’s creativity.
Books are always one of my favourite teaching tools, so I introduced the children to Dora, the Explorer who is the heroine of a popular series of books and videos. Dora is adventurous, she speaks Spanish as well as English, has a monkey friend called Boots and, in the book we read, just had become a big sister to twins ! Dora books introduce the children to more complex stories about a little girl’s adventures and her family.
The children were also going to go on an adventure aka an excursion, so we talked in class about the fun destination for the first Pre-Kindergarten excursion this year - the Kobe Animal Kingdom park and we shared the exciting news that their parents would come along !
With this trip the Pre-KG children were connecting their previous unit about "Animals and Food" to their current unit of "Family and Body"
We looked at the map of the park in class and matched some of the animals that are featured there.
On Friday then seven of us took the school bus and the rest came by car and we all met at the park.
The Kobe Animal Kingdom features a multitude of animals in a colourful, flower filled setting and quite a few roam around freely and can be petted or even fed.
The children spent some fun-filled and thrilling hours with their friends, families and teachers and surely learnt one or two new things.
What a fantastic opportunity to connect our learning to activities in an exciting environment and share it with our families !
Yours,
Anita Ursula Mönch
DSKI Pre-Kindergarten homeroom teacher
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