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First I would like to give a warm welcome to sweet Lital who joined our class last week. Lital comes from America and has already proven to be a great addition to our group.
We had a successful ‘entry point’ to our family and friends unit. We were happy to work as a team to turn our family area to a little home. The kids were very happy to decorate our home, adding different objects they brought from their own home. The children also did a great job practicing their fine motor skills by connecting our numbers path together. We painted boxes to create a screen and a keyboard and finally we used a simple rope, some clothes and laundry clips to practice hanging our clothes to dry.
As part of our unit we have listened to many stories and sung songs together about families. All the children were delighted to show the rest of the class their family photo. In addition we discussed things we love to do with our family, for example some kids said they love to go to the park, doing puzzles, and others love playing with their siblings. We all agreed that we are very lucky to have a loving family.
We have also played a lot with our little Lego people as part of our unit. We sorted them to groups of mums, dads, sisters, brothers and grandparents, and then counted how many people we have in each group. The children are also developing their vocabulary by learning the different parts of the body and drawing a family portrait.
Last week we got together with our buddy class (Lower Primary) for the first time. Lower primary came to show us what they have been learning about during maths. They explained to the young children in Lower Pre-Primary about shapes and colors and then we listened to a story. To finish off Lower Pre-Primary taught their big buddies how to sing their end of day song.
Finally we all enjoyed celebrating Jonny’s birthday. Sweet Jonny turned 3 and we wish him all the best. Thank you for the delicious cake.
See you next time!
Here are some new songs that we love to sing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W88LccH696E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiRUF7hvWuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJyNoFkud6g
Welcome to Lower Pre Primary!
To start the year we have a lovely group of 8 children from all around the world.
Our first two weeks in school were full of new, exciting experiences. We are learning the daily routine and getting to know our new friends. It’s amazing to see how kids can communicate well, even without a common language. Over the last two weeks, the kids showed empathy and helped each other in different situations. We enjoyed making art with different materials such as play-dough and paint, to improve our fine motor skills. We were happy to explore our new classroom environment, getting familiar with our different areas (reading, art, family etc).
Music and sports lessons were so much fun that at the end of the lessons the kids didn’t want to leave! We celebrated Vincent’s 3rd birthday by singing and dancing together. Thank you Vincent for the delicious cake. We wish you all the best.
On Monday, we will have our ‘Entry Point’ to our first IPC unit called family and friends.
Here are some links for songs that we sing in class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN1Cyr0ZK9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0o79IMmAYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2OpkQuOjig
During the last few weeks we have been very busy with our treasure unit as well as with summer and end-of-year activities.
Two lovely friends have joined our class, Yago from Spain and Victoria from Chile.
We have continued to explore the world of pirates! We have read pirate stories, sung pirate songs and played pirate games. The children were all very excited to bring a treasure from home. We all sat on our pirate ship together and told our friends about our special treasure. We then had lots of fun using recycled boxes to create our own treasure chest, which we then filled with shiny golden coins that we made out of clay.
We also learnt about tropical islands. We looked atphotos of tropical fruit, animals and tropical weather. The kids had so much fun creating their own tropical islands and the results were beautiful! To end our unit we tasted lots of different kinds of tasty tropical fruit for our Exit Point. The kids cut all the fruit themselves and then we had a fantastic picnic outside in our ‘little garden’.
We also celebrated 4 birthdays! Congratulations to Yago who turned 3, and Augusto, Wassim and Misha who turned 4. Happy birthday boys, we wish you all the best and we want to thank you for the lovely cakes.
Our fun end of year trip was to the ‘kids adventure’ playground and we all enjoyed it a lot. The same week we also had our end-of-year show. The children did such a good job, well done everyone!
Last of all we learnt about our personal goal, ‘adaptability’, and after watching a puppet show we had a nice discussion about situations in life that require adaptability. We talked about moving to a new country, a new house and a new school and we all agreed that it takes some time to adjust. Talking about our new school led us to create a great and colorful work of art, which we will hang in our new school.
The last day of school was quite emotional; after laughing and playing together with balloons and soap bubbles we had our last school assembly and said goodbye to Ali, Augusto, Victoria and Harrison. We are all going to miss them and we wish them lots of good luck in their new school.
I want to thank you all for a wonderful year. Have a great summer, and see you in September!
First I would like to thank Miss Tonia for being with us and helping us over the last three months. A warm welcome to Miss Iness and Miss Fotini who will help in our class till the end of the year.
Over the last few weeks we have been enjoying our ‘Treasure unit’. We have read stories about pirates, sang songs and played different pirate games. We even painted a carpet that became the ocean, created a crocodile and made our own swords! The children love to play in our pirate ship pretending to be pirates fighting crocodiles and looking for treasure. The children have learnt a lot by counting golden coins, drawing maps and learning new vocabulary.
A few weeks ago we took part in a lovely workshop as part of the ‘Floralien’ exhibition. We learned about recycling and created our own mini gardens made out of reused plastic bottles.
Our 'Personal goal' that we have been focusing on this month has been “Communication”. After watching a funny puppet show, we discussed how important it is to communicate. We agreed that talking is the best way to communicate with our family, friends as well as a great way to solve problems.
This month we also celebrated Harrison and Rianna’s birthday. It was so much fun to sing, dance and eat delicious cakes. Congratulations to both of you and may all your wishes come true!
I would like to thank all of you for organizing the last ‘coffee morning’. It was a big success! The impressive amount of money you raised allowed me to order a beautiful wooden house which we all enjoy very much.
Thank-you for also helping me to celebrate my birthday. You are amazing! Thank you so much for the beautiful flowers, the delicious cake, the present and all the lovely cards. I appreciate it so much.
Miss Inbal x
We came back from Easter holiday and were very happy to see each other and welcome two new friends to our class! I would like to give a warm welcome to sweet Jonny and Misha. They have settled in so nicely and we are very happy having them in our class.
Spring is in the air so we have enjoyed reading new stories, singing songs and painting our own butterflies out in the sun.
Over the last two weeks we have learnt the ‘d’ and ‘g’ letter sounds and practiced our cutting skills. The children did a great job cutting different pictures of items that start with these two sounds. We have even been practicing how to write the letters 'd' and 'g'.
Our ISG Personal goal at the moment is Morality! We have been using puppets and a traffic light sign to understand what morality means. Now the children know that when they have a problem it’s very important to stop (red light), think (orange light), and make the right decision (green light).
This week we had a fantastic ‘entry point’ to our new IPC unit called ‘treasure’. We discovered an old map that leads to treasure so we decided that we had to go and look for it! We put our bandanas on and together with Upper Pre-Primary we went for a 'treasure hunt'. We followed the signs and found the sweet treasure1 After we ate our chocolate coins we had lots of energy to play in the beautiful garden of St. Pieters abbey. What a great start to our unit1
We had lots of fun over the last few weeks. We were learning about farm animals and their young, how do they look like, what sound do they make and what do they eat. We read many lovely stories about animals and played lots of games. We created our own special farm, while improving different skills such as cutting, sticking, and colouring. Then the children were very happy to play with our farm animals. In addition we have been learning about the life cycle of a hen. The kids can tell you all about it!
We have had a wonderful trip to the farm. The weather was amazing and the children had the opportunity to feed the animals, touch them, and even ride on the cart carried by the pony horse. We had a lovely ‘exit point’ together with Upper Pre Primary. They made beautiful projects about animals and told us all about it. We sang songs and ate animals shaped cookies.
We celebrated the ‘world book day’, which was a great fun! We looked at books from all over the world and enjoyed reading many beautiful stories.
We also celebrated Minami, Hiromi and Shane’s birthday. They turned four and we wish them all the best. We would like to thank them for the delicious cake.
Over the last week we were learning about the spring season and enjoyed decorating our class for Easter. On Friday, we were super excited to find all the chocolate eggs that Easter bunny left for us. It was a sweet way to end our week.
Have a lovely Easter holyday everyone! Take care and enjoy your family and friends.
First I would like to give a warm welcome to our Erasmus student- Tonia. She comes all the way from Greece and will stay with us for the next three months. The kids are always happy to meet new friends and we are very happy to have Tonia with us. We are enjoying our new IPC unit called ‘Animals’. Last Friday, we had our ‘Entry Point’. We prepared lovely animal masks and together with Upper Pre-Primary we went to the “jungle” (Citadel park!). We played lots of games pretending to be wild animals, and came back to school ready to learn all about animals!
Each child chose their favorite animal and drew it. Next week we will research and find out where our favourite animals live and what kind of food they eat. But so far we have learnt about farm animals, the pond and the safari! We looked at different animals and discovered where they live and what sound they make. We have enjoyed singing new animal songs and the children have loved listening to stories about animals. It is lovely to see the children so engaged in our new topic. They have even been bringing beautiful books, toys and pictures of animals to school to share.
Last Thursday we celebrated Ming’s birthday. Ming Ming turned 4 and we would like to wish him all the best. Thank you for the delicious cake!
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Over the last three weeks we were very busy with our fantastic IPC unit called ‘Let’s Pretend’. The children loved our field trip to the museum ‘Huis van Alijn’ where we pretended to be a music band and saw lots of music instruments. The children received special uniforms and saw different items from everyday life and how they have changed over the years. At the end of the visit we played music and marched like a real band. It was a lot of fun!
Next, we worked together on our show “The Gingerbread Man’. The children loved acting out the different characters - some liked being the little old lady who created the gingerbread man while others preferred to be the horse that tries to catch the Gingerbread man. Some children loved playing the fox that tricked the Gingerbread man and ate him at the end of the story. We then looked more closely at the sequence of the story. Each child looked at 6 pictures from the story and then organized them chronologically. We painted the river and the road for our show and then the highlight was baking and decorating our own special gingerbread cookies!
After learning all about the Gingerbread man we learned how to make sock puppets! We developed our cutting and sticking skills and created beautiful puppets that we love to play with.
For literacy we learned the ‘e’ and ‘r’ sounds. We played games with objects that start with these sounds and painted the letters 'e' and 'r'.
This month our fourth personal goal is ‘enquiry’. We have talked about how it is very important to ask questions, to investigate and explore our world as this way we gain knowledge and understanding. We gave ‘Dora’ as an example of a girl who is very inquisitive!
On Thursday we had our ‘Exit Point’. The children were very excited to watch Upper Pre-Primary kids performing the fairy tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Then Lower Pre-Primary presented ‘The Gingerbread Man’ story. We sang our gingerbread man song and finished by eating delicious gingerbread man cookies. It was fabulous! Well done everyone, we are very proud of all the children for a great performance.
We ended our week with a colourful carnival full of music, dance and happiness.
Have a lovely holiday. Take care and enjoy your family and friends.
First we would like to give a warm welcome to sweet Julia who joined our class this week. Julia is from Slovakia and we wish her the best of luck here at ISG!
It was so nice to meet again after the Christmas break. The children missed each other and were very happy to play and learn together again.
We have been learning about the winter season. We sang winter songs, played games related to winter and created our own special snowmen.
Here you can find two songs that we love to sing together :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b-U1eQqBmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbKjDjMDok
We had a lovely ‘Entry point’ to our new IPC unit- 'Let’s pretend'. The children were so excited to present their favorite book and their favorite character. Thank you dear parents for sending in lovely books and costumes. It was a fun day!
This week we listened to ‘The Gingerbread man’ fairytale. The kids loved it!
We also learned about puppets around the world. We looked at pictures of puppets from many countries and realized there were different kinds of puppets (finger puppets, hand puppets and shadow puppets). The children then made their own beautiful puppets.
On Thursday we celebrated Alexander’s birthday. Alexander turned 3 and was very happy to celebrate with his friends. We wish sweet Alexander all the best and would like to thank him for the delicious fruits and cupcakes.
Have a great weekend everyone, and see you all on Monday.
We had a great time learning about transport. Last week was all about boats. We learned the song “row row row your boat” and sat inside hoops with a friend pretending we are rowing our boat down the stream. It was fun! We learned about floating and sinking then went outside to check what is happening when we put different objects into a bowl full of water. The children had a great time!
Our exit point was a lovely trip on a real boat. The kids were very excited they were singing, laughing and listening to the cool captain of the boat!
We learned the ‘c’ sound and played different games to practice all the sounds that we have learned so far. I was delighted to see the progress of your children who many of them didn’t know a word in English few months ago.
We celebrated Anay’s birthday. Anay turned 4 and was very happy to have a party with his friends. We would like to thank him for the delicious cake that he brought and to wish him all the best.
This week was dedicated to Christmas. We decorated our class, read stories, sang songs and even used red little balls during sport lesson so we felt like “Rudolph the red nosed reindeer”.
I would like to wish all of you happy holidays and have a fantastic new year full of health, happiness and love. Enjoy your family and friends see you all in 2016 J
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNFQePmAxEQ
