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The end of the year has arrived, our twelve sweet pupils have learnt so much and became more independent, confident and communicative. It was a true pleasure to watch them learn and grow and we are very proud of each one of them.
Over the last few weeks we have been learning about treasure and pirates. We started the topic with a lovely ‘entry point’, searching for a hidden treasure. We worked as a team and looked for some clues until we found the treasure box filled with jewels.
We played many games pretending we were pirates, and by doing so we improved our motor skills. We read books about pirates, sang songs and created our own special treasure chest. It was loads of fun to count pirates and to paint ships, parrots and swords.
For our ‘exit point’ we had a great morning, cutting tropical fruits and having a lovely picnic at sun, pretending we were living on an island.
We have been learning about summer season and talked about things that we like to do in the summer. We painted the sun, the ocean, and many fish. We really enjoyed playing with water and sand.
To celebrate the end of the school year, we went for the first time to a real swimming pool! We had the best time, splashing water and playing together. A special thank you to Maria, Luigi’s mum, for coming along with us.
In addition, we celebrated Alexander’s birthday. Congratulation for turning four and thank you for the delicious cake!
Finally, we would like to wish you all a wonderful summer! Enjoy your family, your friends and the sunny weather!
Dear LPP pupils, best of luck and many great moments in school next year,
To our sweet Takumi, have fun in Boston and all the best to you and to your family. We will miss you.
Lots of love,
Miss Inbal, Miss Anne and Miss Yaiza.
Hello everyone,
First of all: a very warm welcome to our new friend Samuel who joined our class this week. We are very happy to have you with us.
LPP had so much fun learning about animals. We started our new topic pretending we were animals. We all chose an animal that we like and made our own special animal mask. We went outside and played different games practicing our gross motor skills. We were climbing like monkeys, jumping like frogs and running like tigers.
We created a lovely jungle corner in our classroom. All children enjoyed painting trees and cutting leaves. We went on a trip to the jungle by listening to a song with beautiful nature sounds and learned about animals that live in the jungle. We saw photos of different animals and talked about colours, shapes and sizes. We sang new songs about animals and enjoyed listening to lovely stories.
We learned about farm animals, the food that they like and the names of their young ones. The children were happy to learn about the life cycle of a hen and were all amazed to watch a video of a chick hatching out of the egg. The children kept busy making crafts of different animals. It was lovely to watch them use their imagination and some wooden blocks to create caves, bridges, trees and more. We talked about the meaning of the word camouflage and saw some photos of animals that hide their presence very well.
To celebrate the end of the unit we had a fun morning with two of Miss Brigitte's sweet guinea pigs. All the children helped to chop cucumbers and carrots to feed the guinea pigs, we played with them and sang songs to them. We celebrated Luigi, Takumi, Spandan, Sally and Aura's birthdays too!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Inbal & Anne
Hello Everyone!
LPP have had lots of fun over the last two months. First we would like to give a warm welcome to our three new girls who come all the way from India. Anshika, Saanvi and Tanvisha, it is so nice to have new friends in our group. Welcome to ISG, sweet girls!
Inspired by our IPC unit called ‘Let’s Pretend’, let us tell you all about what we have been doing in Lower Pre-Primary over the last few weeks…
Once upon a time, there were eleven children from all around the world who went to a special school in a town called Ghent. The children loved to learn, to play and to sing together. They were good friends, who enjoyed spending time together, helping and supporting each other.
The days became shorter and the weather turned colder but inside the warm and cosy class the little children were busy learning about winter. They painted penguins and snowmen and practiced counting winter images.
One day, the children were sticking cotton balls to the window pretending they were snowflakes, when suddenly they saw real snowflakes falling from the sky…
The little children started to jump and to laugh and they all went outside to play in the snow. When they came back inside they were surprised to see eleven colourful pillows, warm tea and a good book waiting for them. What a lovely afternoon!
The group of eleven children then learnt about puppets from all over the world. They made their own sock puppet, stick puppet and paper roll puppet. They enjoyed listening to many fairy tales such as Goldilocks and the three bears, The frog prince, The three billy goats gruff, Chicken licken, The gingerbread man and The three little pigs.
One Friday morning, all three pre-primary classes came together and watched a beautiful puppet show about a cat named Poppoti and his fish Gaga.
The eleven little children worked hard to prepare a nice show for the other pre-primary classes. They painted the blue river and the green grass. They created their own crowns for the show and practiced keeping their balance when walking on the troll’s bridge.
The show was fantastic! All children sang a song together and acted out the Three Billy Goats Gruff’ story. Then we watched the ‘Three Little Pigs’ story which was performed by Middle Pre-Primary. It was a lovely day.
Just like in a real fairytale we created our own castle and had so much fun pretending we were knights and princesses. We even had three kings and one queen who celebrated their birthdays in our castle. Congratulations sweet Luigi, Takumi, Spandan and Saanvi. Thank you for the delicious cakes.
We ended our week by having a lovely carnival party together with the whole school. Beautiful costumes, great music and lots of fun!
The eleven little children and two teachers of Lower Pre-Primary lived happily ever after and went on their mid-term break to rest and to enjoy some family time.
Have fun everyone and all the best,
Miss Inbal and Miss Anne.
Over the last few weeks we have been busy learning more about transport. The children loved making our own special boats out of boxes, plastic pots, sticks and paper. We enjoyed playing with sand and the water tray and we explored the difference between floating and sinking. We practiced our fine motor skills while cutting and sticking photos of vehicles and we developed our gross motor skills while pretending to fly like an aeroplane, drive in a car and ride our bikes!
To end our transport unit, we went on a boat trip. Our guide told us all about his boat and told us some interesting stories and facts about the history of Ghent. It was such a nice day and a fun activity to celebrate the end of our transport unit. We would like to thank Sutapa (Spandan’s mum) who joined our trip and helped the children.
The last two weeks were all about Christmas! We made beautiful decorations and practiced our singing and dancing for the Christmas show. We were so proud to see our sweet little children preforming so well at the show. Well done everyone!
The highlight of the week was definitely baking and decorating our gingerbread man cookies. The children enjoyed the process so much. First we read the story about the gingerbread man, then we learned the song ‘Five gingerbread men lying on a tray’ and lastly, we made our own cookies. It is always a pleasure to watch this group of children work so well together. They cooperate and share, they help each other and encourage a friend who is facing a challenge. They also hug each other all the time, just because it’s nice and they like it.
After the holidays, we are expecting three new friends. We have met them already and we can't wait to get to know them.
We wish you all happy holidays, enjoy your family and friends and we will meet again in 2019.
Happy New Year everyone!
Ms Inbal and Ms Anne.
We started our new unit of work with a successful entry point. We took our favourite teddy bears on a transport journey. We explained our teddy bears how to wait patiently to the public transportation. We showed them how a tram ticket looks like and explained our teddies how important it is to sit during the ride. We really enjoyed riding the tram and the bus, we held our teddy bears and showed them the view from the window. We had a lovely picnic and had a lot of fun playing at the playground.
On our way back, we took the teddy bears through a secret tunnel and they were super excited! We got back to school tired but so happy. Thank you to Sally’s mum who joined our trip and helped us a lot and always with a smile.
The children love to learn about transport. They ask many questions and have creative ideas such as creating a pink bus that will take us quickly to Japan.
We are very busy creating our own boat, vehicles, train and aeroplane out of boxes. We looked at different photos and had to pay attention to small details. We have been practicing numeracy while counting how many wheels, windows and doors does a car have. We improve our fine motor skill while painting, cutting and sticking and we develop our communication skills as we work so well as a team.
We watched a short video of a take-off and landing of an aeroplane and were surprized to discover that just like cars, aeroplanes have wheels and not only wings.
The children go on a new adventure every day. How amazing it is to be able to go on a trip using the train, the boat, the bus and the aeroplane and all in 30 minutes. Another great advantage is that if one forgot to take something for the trip, the pilot can press a special button and stop the aeroplane, while the child will go home quickly to get the camera, the book or the teddy bear.
We sing songs and read books about transport and we even had a special visit of a real fireman. The children were so happy to try on the outfit of a real firefighter.
We had a fun and groovy music workshop with recycled instruments and had a lovely visit of Lower Primary children who came to share some beautiful stories that they have made.
We are eager to learn more about transport and we also started to work on our Christmas show, but…don’t tell anyone it’s a secret…
Have a great weekend everyone, see you all on Monday.
We have been busy in LPP learning all about ourselves. Where do we come from? What do we like to eat? which animal is our favourite and which colour do we like the most?
We all painted our home country flags, cut photos of food that we like to eat, made hand and foot prints and created beautiful ‘All about me’ books.
We learnt about parts of our body and had a lot of fun counting eyes, ears, hands, fingers and toes. We read stories, sang songs and played many games in order to enrich our vocabulary. Many of us put on our doctor outfit and became doctors. When you are a good doctor just like in LPP class, you ask the patient to tell you where is the pain? Is it the head? the shoulder? Maybe the knee?
Learning through games is what we do in class, so we all looked in the mirror and saw the colour of our hair, our skin and our eyes. We talked about the beauty of being different. How boring it was if we all looked the same. We looked in the mirror again and said one thing that we love about our face/body.
Reading the lovely book ’when I grow up I want to be me’ by Sandra Magsamen brought a great discussion about the future and our freedom to choose doing whatever we wish for. The girl in the book said she might be a doctor or a dancer, an astronaut or a fire fighter. There was one thing she knew for sure… ‘when I grow up I want to be me’.
We had a fantastic ‘exit point’ with our lovely children and their mums. All children were very excited to organize our classroom as a museum presenting the ‘All about me’ exhibition. All mums brought delicious snacks representing their home country and we enjoyed a great afternoon together looking at photos, art and sharing our learning. Thanks everyone for your cooperation!
We had a fun week making decorations for our Halloween party. The party was a great success!
Last week was all about Autumn season. We went on a short trip to see the colours of Autumn, to feel the wind and to collect some beautiful autumn leaves. We danced to the musical work ‘The four seasons’ by Antonio Vivaldi and painted our own art for autumn.
We had an amazing trip to the farm in Drongen, all children had so much fun feeding and petting sweet animals.
Now we are ready to start our new IPC unit of work. We will have our ‘entry point’ on Wednesday.
We wish you all a wonderful long weekend. See you on Tuesday.
Welcome to our Lower Pre-Primary blog!
First, I would like to give a very warm welcome to five new children who have joined our class this year. Suzumi, Takumi, Luigi, Ira and Elliot, you have settled in so well and brought a lot of joy to our group.
I would like to thank Miss Anne, Miss Nadia and Miss Yaiza for all their help and support. We are very lucky to have you in LPP.
Over the last few weeks we have been busy getting to know each other and adjusting our classroom routines.
We played, sang, danced and read some great stories. It was amazing to see how nicely the children play and help each other without having the language. I am proud of them all!
Last week, we began our first IPC unit ‘All about me’. We enjoyed our ‘Entry Point’ together with MPP and UPP. The children came to school with their favourite clothes and brought their favourite toy. We shared our favourite snacks and had a small party. We played games and sang songs together. It was such a fun day!
We created our self-portraits from different materials, while looking at the mirror and learning about our face.
We already sing some songs in English! Our favourite songs are:
Open shut them, the finger family song, one little finger, Head shoulders knees and toes and 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive.
We celebrated Suzumi and Ira’s birthday. They both turned 3 and we wish them all the best. Thank you for the delicious cakes.
On Friday 21/09 we celebrated the international peace day. All children were very enthusiastic to make a long peace chain to decorate our school. We talked about being kind to each other and to show respect to all people, animals and the environment.
I would like to wish Elliot and his family lots of good luck in their new adventure in Hong Kong. We will miss you at ISG.
I wish you all a lovely and relaxing weekend. Enjoy your family and friends.
See you all on Monday!
Dear all,
We had such a lovely year in Lower Pre-Primary. Over the last few weeks we were very busy with our ‘Up and Away’ unit. We had a great ‘entry point’ outside in the playground flying kites, gliders and parachutes. We watched a short video about kites and saw that kites can come in many different shapes. We shared our thoughts about our own favourite kite. Each one of us made some beautiful artwork of kites flying in the sky and we created our own special kite out of a paper bag. We had so much fun flying our own kites in the playground.
We learned about hot air balloons and practiced our counting skills counting hot air balloons. We all took part in a fun project creating a big hot air balloon out of an empty box. We enjoyed playing in our hot air balloon corner pretending we were flying up and away visiting different places in the world! We looked in our atlas picture books together and each chose a place that we would like to visit (a country with many animals, a place with a big river and a boat, a place with a very long train or a place with lots of snow).
We had a lot of fun playing with bubbles which we made from soap and water and we enjoyed playing with a parachute, testing the flying ability of different objects. We read stories, sang songs and played different games related to our topic and improved our fine and gross motor skills in many ways.
We celebrated Sally, Aura, Alexander, Arthur, Constantin and Elize’s birthday. We wish them all a happy birthday and thank you for the delicious fruits and cakes.
Over the last two weeks, we learned about the summer season. We looked at some pictures of summer and talked about the differences between summer and winter. We had a nice class discussion about things that we love to do during the summer and then we created our own special boats and played some summer games. We had an amazing trip to a beautiful nature reserve and to the local park and we enjoyed some lovely picnics outside.
It was a great year in Lower Pre-Primary and I would like to wish you all a lovely summer holiday. Enjoy your family and friends and take care.
For those of you who are leaving for another adventure, good luck from all of us. We will miss you.
Happy summer everyone, lots of love,
Ms Inbal.
Dear parents,
First I would like to give a warm welcome to sweet Yihe who joined our class in February and settled in so well. We are very happy to have you in Lower Pre-Primary.
Over the last few weeks we were very busy learning and discovering new facts about plants and flowers. We had a lovely ‘entry point’ in which a colourful flower bouquet was delivered to our class. It was such a nice surprise and we all enjoyed smelling the flowers and exploring the different shapes and colours that they have. Then each child chose their favourite flower and drew it.
We had so much fun opening our own flower shop in class. Some of us were shop keepers, others were customers and some of us worked in the shop keeping it clean and organised.
We also played many games related to plants and flowers. We sorted flowers and seeds by colours and size and created a big plant using different kind of materials.
The children were very enthusiastic to learn about the parts of a plant and the five needs of a plant. We planted sunflower and bean seeds and took care of them by giving them water every day and making sure they had enough sunlight, soil and space.
We read the lovely story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and we really enjoyed acting out the story. We also practiced our gross motor skills while pretending we were Jack, climbing up the beanstalk. Then we pretended we were a giant who was walking in his castle.
We enjoyed different arts and crafts activities. We all painted a giant beanstalk together and we cooperated so well. We made flowers from clay and have practiced our fine motor skills while cutting photos of plants and flowers.
There are many new songs that we love to sing, you can ask your child to sing it to you at home. (sing a song of flowers / I like the flowers / In the spring time / 5 little ducks).
Our 'exit point' was a real success, we made flower cookies and had a lovely picnic full of songs and games!
We celebrated Rachel and Spandan’s birthdays, they have turned 3 and we would like to wish them all the best and thank you for the delicious cakes.
The last week was all about spring and Easter. All children were very busy painting their Easter baskets, chicklets and bunnies. On Friday we had our Easter egg hunt which was a lovely way to end the week before the holidays.
I wish you all a very nice spring break. Enjoy the time with your family and friends. See you in two weeks.
Let’s go shopping, let’s go shopping, let’s go shopping you and me
First I would like to give a warm welcome to our new friend Alexander who joined our class in the beginning of january. Alexander we are very happy to have you here in LPP. I’m glad that you are already doing so great and have so much fun at school.
Welcome back also to Aura and Anan, who have been visiting their homecountries for some while. We are happy to have you back here at ISG.
A warm welcome also to Monica, an erasmus intern from Barcelona, who will be assisting in LLP for 3 months. She is a great help and the children like her a lot!
The last weeks have been very exciting, because we have been learning a lot of things about shopping, had a little shop in our class and even went shopping to the bakery.
For our ‘entry point’ we had a very exciting shopping and pizza baking day:
In our classroom we made a shop with all that you need in a shop: A till, shopping baskets, shopping trolleys, shopping bags, money and of course things to buy. The first few weeks it was a little supermarket with fruits, vegetables and all kind of groceries. After some weeks we decided to make a toy shop with different toys from our classroom. We enjoyed it so much to go shopping in our little shop and to be the shopkeeper .
We learnt about different types of shops for example the bakery, the supermarket, the butcher, the toyshop, the clothshop, the bookshop, … and what you can buy in these shops.
In our circle time we learned two beautiful songs about shopping (‘Let’s go shopping’ and ‘This is the way we like to shop’). We loved to sing them and to walk or dance around, it was lots of fun.
To go shopping in our classroom shop we made a shopping bag: first we coloured it and than we decorated it with a lot of glitter.
Each one of us designed a shopping basket. They all look wonderful, each one unique and different just as we are. We used this basket also to go shopping in our own little classroom shop.
For our ‘exit point’ we went shopping to the bakery outside of the school. Our buddy class (year 4 from Primary – Miss Anelda’s class) came with us. It was really exciting and fun. We orderd chocholate cookies and everyone paid for their own with 1 Euro. Back at school we ate our cookies together with our buddy class. We enjoyed it a lot and made some new buddys.
It was definitly a fun and exciting shopping unit!
During this month we have also been learning about MORALITY and how to make the right decision in a conflict situation. For that, we made a traffic light, to help us make the right decision.
RED = Stop!
ORANGE = Think!
GREEN = Do the right thing!
Today we had a super fun carnival party. We’ve been dancing in the classroom, had a yummy snack and have been dancing with the whole school. It was a lot of fun and now we are ready for the holidays.
I would also like to welcome back Miss Inbal, who will take over LPP after the midterm break and would like to thank you for your trust and cooperation.
I had a wonderful time here at ISG and it was a pleasure to teach the little ones in LPP. I will bring a lot of wonderful memories back to my homecountry Austria, where I will contine my masters degree.
I will still be here the first three days after the mid-term break together with Miss Inbal.
I wish you and your children all the best and a lot of wonderful experiences in their life.
Kind regards,
Miss Riccarda
