Pre-Kindergarten 2021/22/23: Pre-KG 2023/ 24 Blog 13 Fun with Colours and Shapes

Pre-KG 2023/ 24 Blog 13

Fun with Colours and Shapes

Since the beginning of the school year the Pre-Kindergarten children have been on a journey discovering the world of “Colours and Shapes” and while the learning never ends (even for adults), we have started to wind down our unit with some special activities.

The week started with a fabulous birthday party for Matias whose whole family attended the celebration.

The Izquierdo/ Nakazato family are very creative with making colourful pinatas and they did not disappoint: They brought a beautiful yellow pinata in the shape of a CAT shovelcar, much to the delight of his sister Veronica and the Pre-Kindergarten children who tried to hit the pinata, first reluctantly, then with more energy and finally could get the bounty of cookies und Gummibärchen. As there were so many goodies, the class happily shared with their friends of K1 and K2.

The children also received lots of toys and each a beautiful felt ornament handmade by Matias’ grandmother. Happy 3.Birthday, dear Matias and thank you to the family for all their love to the Pre-Kindergarten.

To get into the mood for the birthday, and understand the concept of breaking a colourful pinata with a stick, the class watched a catchy song called “Rompe la pinata” . We also used instruments to move along to the song and the shakers were very popular.

Rompe la pinata

So on Tuesday, the Pre-Kindergarten children got to choose their favourite colour ball from a selection and then as many colourful beads as they wanted to make their very personal shaker which they used to joyfully dance along to the pinata song.

After that we got ready for outdoor unit exploration, starting with shopping for our unit baking on Friday.

The Pre-Kindergarten children are always given plenty of opportunities to interact with the Rokko Island community, so they have learnt to collaborate well and have become quite principled. They did a fantastic job finding and purchasing the flour mix for our waffles and behaved very respectfully in the shop.

To practice for the Christmas event, we then went to our special outdoor stage where the children sang and performed and afterwards had a well deserved treat.

There was more practice for the Christmas performance on Wednesday, this time on the outside deck and in the Multipurpose Room with all the friends of K1 and K2.

The children also hung their beautiful handmade Christmas ornaments on the school Christmas tree and they were the first ones to do so.

On Thursday we had OPEN DAY at DSKI and many visitors. The Pre-Kindergarten children were quite unfazed by the amount of new faces coming to their classroom and showed amazing focus on their subject work.

We had prepared a worksheet and lots and lots of different colourful shapes. The children showed good knowledge and great creativity - by first matching, shapes, then building different images like robots, rockets and submarines out of shapes and finally by connecting two corresponding shapes using a crayon. Well done, everyone !

Finally on Friday, the class got ready for their baking activity. With the help of their teachers, the Pre-KG children happily mixed pancake flour with eggs and milk, poured it steadily into the waffle iron and waited patiently. To their delight, the waffles turned out very well and yes, they were squares. Everyone enjoyed the tasty treat and some lucky teachers had big smiles on their faces, too.