Pre-Kindergarten 2021/22/23: Pre-KG 2022 / 23 Blog 25 Frohe Ostern - Happy Easter

Pre-KG 2022 / 23 Blog 25

Frohe Ostern - Happy Easter - Joyeuses Pâques !

This week was the week leading up to the Easter weekend, so the Pre-Kindergarten children were busy making their Easter baskets, colouring Easter eggs and decorating the entrance to the Kindergarten area,

The children were very excited about these activities and could hardly await the arrival of the Easter Bunny on Friday who was informed by our PTA and brought some treats in lovely handmade bunny bags.

Thank you so much !

Easter is the most important and oldest festival in the Christian calendar and the message is a joyous one, but even for people who are not religious it can be celebrated to welcome spring and new life.

In Pre-Kindergarten we have two friends who will have a new sibling soon, so their families will grow.

The children really like to talk about their families and our classroom board featuring winter celebration food with family members is so popular that I would like to keep the idea, but feature some new pictures of the the children’s families doing some activity together.

As our previous unit was about “Animals and Food”, the children have become quite knowledgeable about various animals and even their habitats. They started to put together a variety of animal families and found out that we could have a very big herd of elephants, but were missing members of other families.

I took the clue and went to Daimaru Department store to buy some more Schleich animals, thankfully they had a big whale as well. The next day there were very happy faces all around!

Talking about animals gives us always a good opportunity to show their movements, so the children did some yoga poses and animal walking with Ms.Chinatsu using all of their body and many muscles. They even practiced the bunny hop for our Easter celebration and games on Friday.

Due to the rain, we changed our location from the planned green field to the MPR at school where we got together with K1 and K2 and had lots of fun singing, hopping and doing the egg run.

At the end of the day the children were so happy to take along their lovingly decorated Easter baskets, eggs as well as some sweet treats.

We also had a very special treat during snack time in form of a freshly baked Easter loaf which was kindly given to us by Sofia’s parents. Thank you so much for your kind gift, it was very delicious and I have a lot of good childhood memories with the Osterzopf.

As mentioned, spring is always a sign of new life (hence the symbolic eggs), so we also planted some cress in class with the seeds and eggshells provided by PTA. Hopefully the cress will grow nicely and we can put it on our salads or a buttered bread. Yum, yum - lecker !

This week was very busy again with a new friend trialling in our class and with Nicholas, who used to attend Playgroup, starting Pre-Kindergarten.

Welcome, dear Nicholas and Familie Sallstig, we are so happy to have you in class and in our DSKI community. Herzlich Willkommen und wir freuen uns schon auf viele Abenteuer zusammen!

On top of all these exciting things happening, there was one more activity which is related to next week’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Week when we are taking off to the moon.

The EY are making the rocket, so under blue skies, everyone listened to a space adventure read by Ms.Pam and then the Pre-Kindergarten children painted their part of the rocket with lots of blue paint.

They did such a fabulous job, working very diligently and they were quite fascinated by the brown cardboard slowly turning a vivid blue.

Good job, Pre-Kindergarten!