Pre-KG 2022 / 23 Blog 23 ABCD - ART, BOOKS & CULTURE@DSKI

Pre-KG 2022 / 23 Blog 23

ABCD - ART, BOOKS & CULTURE@DSKI

What a busy and exciting week we had at Pre-Kindergarten and DSKI !

We began the week with Masahiro’s 3rd birthday and the whole Pre-Kindergarten class was so happy to celebrate this special occasion with him! 

Heartfelt Congratulations, Masahiro !

And thank you to Masahiro’s parents for the delicious cake, the beautiful balloons and the nice gifts that will nurture the children’s creativity even further.

Which brings me to the topic of ART: The Pre-Kindergarten children did a fantastic job creating a great variety of art pieces during the current unit which focuses on Food and Animals. They had just experienced using different media in their previous unit of “Colours & Shapes“ and it showed that they had learnt one technique or another.

Whether it was free drawing (My Favourite Food), choosing favourite colours and moving a marble / Kugel (Kugelbild ), gluing shapes (Collage with triangles and squares related to Silk Road Carpet Museum visit / My Rainbow Fish / Our Fish Sculpture Touch & Feel Box), colouring (Sea Animal Magnet game), stringing (Noodle & Beads necklaces) or pasting beautiful cloth and positioning jewels (Cloth Collage), the children showed good concentration, great interest and had quite the artistic eye.

The results were stunning and ever so beautiful. 

Together with K1 and K2, the whole of EY hosted an art exhibition and there were so many amazing pieces of art to see and experience. 

A big thank you to the children and also to the visiting families, teachers and students. We are very grateful for your interest and your positive feedback and encouragement.

As our exhibition was held during the DSKI BOOK & Culture Week, we also had a look at the Book exhibition in the library, took a group picture at the Instagram booth with a book background, read many books including some sent in by the parents and had a mum reading a lovely book in our class. 

Thank you all for your contributions!

And then there was all the wonderful displays by the parents in our hallway, from national costumes, food, toys, animals to a whole world map of kites. 

Every day there was something new to discover and we had the wonderful opportunity on one of the mornings to experience traditional Japanese toys and games. 

Thank you very much to the charming team of Japanese DSKI mothers for all their kind attention to the Pre-Kindergarten children. We had such a good time !

On Friday then, the Pre-Kindergarten went with the whole school community on a parade around Rokko Island in their national costumes. We were greeted by beautiful sunshine, lots of cheering spectators and had a fabulous time chatting with families and children.

Back at school, Ms. Azusa led the DSKI school choir in an energetic drum presentation and a stunning dance performance to the German song "Feuerwerk".

To round off a super exciting and fun week at DSKI, the school community enjoyed very delicious onigiri burgers with juicy Kobe beef, kindly provided and sponsored by one of our previous Pre-Kindergarten fathers, Mr.Sawada. Thank you so much, Mr. and Mrs.Sawada. Gochisousama deshita!

We now got al the necessary stamina and lots of inspiration through ART, BOOKS and CULTURE to cruise into our well deserved spring break.

Ganz herzlichen Dank noch einmal an alle Familien für ihre grosse Hilfe und Unterstützung in der Kulturwoche und für den Besuch bei unserer Kindergarten Kunstaustellung ! 

Wir haben uns sehr gefreut und wünschen allen erholsame und sonnige Frühlingsferien.

Have a sunny and restful spring break !

Yours, 

Anita Ursula Mönch

DSKI Pre-Kindergarten homeroom teacher 

Playgroup / EY German