Pre-Kindergarten 2021/22/23: Pre-KG 2025/ 26 Blog 3 Cool Play with Colours and Shapes

Pre-KG 2025/ 26 Blog 3

Cool Play with Colours and Shapes

As outside the heat was still on during our second week back at DSKI, we designed some activities to keep the children cool while they learnt more about colours and shapes.

We started the week revising our trip to the Fashion Museum last Friday and looked at the colourful pamphlet.

It was wonderful to hear the Pre–Kindergarten children exclaim that they went there and saw this picture ( Koko itta, mitta ) showing that always something is retained from a museum visit and that they were very excited about it.

We asked the children to identify the colours blue, red, green and yellow on the picture and match it with corresponding foam shapes.

And what an absolutely amazing job they did working together and showing each other the right colours! Bravo !

They also helped each other putting colourful ABC shape magnets on our big magnet board in the classroom.

The next day, on Tuesday, the children enjoyed their first full music lesson with Ms. Azusa, singing and doing a ball game using a wool ball with colourful patterns.

Later in the day there was an exciting collaborative activity with K1 : making a cool traditional Japanese ice dessert, called Kakigori. Rounds of ice ( just frozen water) were shaved with a special device and topped with 100% healthy mango and apple juice.

The children shrieked with delight when touching the ice and thoroughly enjoyed this delicious summer treat made by themselves. Das selbstgemachte Eis mit gesundem Saft war sehr erfrischend und lecker ! Gochisosama deshita !

More fun and cool activities with K1 were on the agenda on Wednesday. After their usual outside exploration time, the children could cool down their bodies by choosing to put their feet either into the green turtle pools or the red crab pool.

They were very delighted to feel the cool water.

An additional offer was painting with ice formed like circles or icicles as well as using shapes and water to print.

Again the children enjoyed the touch of the cool media and tried to draw a variety of patterns, resulting in lots of laughter and wet mats ( and some wet children! ). These mats are very eco friendly as you just need water to paint and the drawing magically appears. Then you dry them and they are right away reusable – they were a game changer for me and my own children, especially on rainy days and trips.

This Thursday the first Playgroup session in the current school year took place and the Pre–Kindergarten children were very curious about the children who would eventually become their classmates.

Everyone played together very nicely in the cool classroom inside, made colourful ( play) bentos and went down the slide with whee. We can’t wait for our new friends to join us !

As the typhoon on Friday luckily passed Kobe by, the school was open and we ended the week with some more fun learning. In the morning, the Pre–Kindergarten children had a friend from K1 join them stringing beads of different shapes and a lot of concentration and smiles could be seen.

As repetition is the key to success we let the children print again during their unit time. This time we added different types of shapes and the Pre–Kindergarten children proudly identified triangles, circles, stars and the road maker !