Pre-Kindergarten 2021/22/23: Pre-KG 2024/ 25 Blog 2 A great start and lots of art !

Pre-KG 2024/ 25 Blog 2

A great start and lots of art !

The second week back at school ( and the first full one) provided the Pre–Kindergarten children with many opportunities to discover their unit subjects through the perspective of art.

Though small, children are very curious when it comes to things created either by themselves or others.

We have a shape sorter in our classroom which the children really love and it features blue circle shapes, red square shapes and green triangle shapes.

Building on these three shapes we provided the children with boxes full of colourful triangles ( my longstanding recycle project as all triangles are made from leftover papers ) and they showed their creativity by making their first art projects while honing their fine motor skills.

At first it was not easy for our little ones to hold the paper triangles and apply glue, but they soon discovered a good technique and enjoyed the activity and choosing triangles in all their favorite colours.

As we hold a morning circle every day where we sing our greeting song and the rainbow song, the Pre–Kindergarten children are starting to remember their classmates names and also to identify the different colours.

You can support your child in their learning by singing the Rainbow song with them.

I can sing a rainbow

Other popular toys in the classroom are our roller coasters, where you can let cars slide down a track or little wooden men dangle along. There is a small red one that looks very much like the Daruma on the Fashion Museum Artist poster, so I told the children that we will look for him and many vegetables designed as cute beings.

So off we went to the Museum to look at the fabulous exhibition of Mr. Kagakui who was a much beloved Japanese designer for children‘s books.

Going to the Museum with a group of 2 year olds was one of my idea many years back based on the experience with my own children and the fact that children are very interested in art and exhibitions if you make it age appropriate.

So showing a pamphlet first, giving them a task ( find the elephant) , keeping it short and tuning in to their questions makes for an enjoyable visit.

Good job, Pre–Kindergarten and yes, you found that elephant and Daruma !

Throughout the week the children enjoyed additional activities like giving the giant colourful legos a bath outside ( and keep cool and entertained in the process), building houses and enclosures for animals with foam colour pieces, becoming risk takers while sliding, sorting colour sticks and mingling with new friends from K1 and K2 and learning the classroom routines.