Pre-KG 2024/ 25 Blog 7 Shaping up to the Oktoberfest

Pre-KG 2024/ 25 Blog 7 

Shaping up to the Oktoberfest 

The week before the Oktoberfest is always very exciting at our school.

DSKI being a school with a German background, the children get to learn something about the traditions surrounding this festival.

Oktoberfest

The Oktoberfest actually started as festivities held in honor of the wedding between Prinz Ludwig von Bayern and Prinzessin Therese von Sachsen–Hildburghausen and it is now the biggest festival in the world. 

Viele Menschen kennen die Geschichte des Ursprungs des Oktoberfests, aber auch für kleine Kinder ist es immer wieder faszinierend zu hören, dass es eigentlich alles mit der Hochzeit eines echten Prinzen und einer echten Prinzessin begann. Mittlerweile ist das Oktoberfest nicht nur aus dem Terminplan der Münchner, sondern auch dem Rest der Welt nicht mehr wegzudenken. Was viele allerdings nicht wissen ist, dass es damals auch ein Pferderennen gab und das haben unsere Kinder und die Freunde vom K1 im Deutsch Unterricht auf unseren Pferden gerne nachgespielt. 

Die Geschichte des Oktoberfests

The Pre–Kindergarten children helped with making some of the decorations by twisting white or light blue paper strips into loops and stringing them together with some cellotape. 

K2 made more of the garlandes during their German lesson as part of their unit on materials.

The Pre–Kindergarten children also listened to some German brass band music and tried out a variety of shakers to move along to the music. 

Throughout the week the Pre–Kindergarten children continued to learn about shapes and they have become very knowledgeable.

Last week they printed the banner for the Tombola team with „diamond“ shaped sponges and some of the children could remember this difficult word ! 

The children also used a variety of shapes to make robots, trains or anything they liked. 

Additionally the children created original pictures by using colourful circles, featuring a subject of their choice. The little artworks looked really fantastic ! 

Finally, the Pre–Kindergarten children experienced the first joys of autumn when harvesting sweet potatoes together with the other EY classes. They dug and pulled and were so proud of their harvest ! 

We will use these potatoes to make some dish in the future, but we had already one of our chefs making potato soup ! 

In the meanwhile we are all looking forward to our DSKI Oktoberfest with lots of delicious food, fun games, great Tombola prizes, good music and blue skies ! 

Viel Spaß auf unserem hauseigenen DSKI Oktoberfest mit vielen Attraktionen und einer Vorführung der Pre–Kindergarten Kinder mit ihren Freunden von K1und K2 und allen EY Lehrern ! 

Körperteilblues

With kind regards, mit herzlichen Grüßen, 

Anita Ursula Mönch 

DSKI Pre-Kindergarten homeroom teacher Playgroup / EY Deutsch & German

German Saturday School homeroom teacher