Lower Pre-Primary - Ms Erin

All about transport

Lower Pre-Primary - Ms Erin

We are having lots of fun during our transport unit. We have played games, sang songs and created different vehicles. For the last two weeks we have been learning about land and air transport. The children made their own special cars from boxes. They counted how many wheels a car has and they painted a box using their favourite colour.

We have been learning a new song where we are pretending to be drivers of a car. Here is the link for the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2meevJJPvA .The kids loved it, so you can watch the video clip with them and hear them sing. Every child shared with us one thing that they like to see through the window while sitting in a car. They had beautiful ideas such as trees, buildings, traffic lights and looking for aeroplanes in the sky.

We also learned about aeroplanes and made mini aeroplanes to play with. We have been counting from 1-10 using pictures of aeroplanes and working cooperatively to organize aeroplanes in different sizes from the smallest to the biggest. We learnt the ‘n’ sound and enjoyed making funny noses!

Harrison, who comes from the USA, wanted to tell us about thanksgiving. He brought a lovely pumpkin bar and then the children told us what they are thankful for. They had very different and very cute answers such as being thankful for the cake that Harrison brought, for having mum and dad, for having toy cars and for having a coat when it’s raining.  

On Tuesday we celebrated Alyssa’s birthday. Alyssa turned 3 and was so happy to party with her friends in class. We wish her all the best and would like to thank her for the delicious cake and for the lovely book.

We had a special Dutch lesson this week where we learnt about Sinterklaas. We dressed up with traditional costumes, sang songs and made puzzles.

On Friday Sinterklaas visited ISG. It was a great way to end our week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.   

 

Transport unit

Lower Pre-Primary - Ms Erin

First, we would like to give a warm welcome to our new pupil Rianna who joined our class last week. She is a lovely addition to our group and we wish her all the best.

It was so nice to see all the children after the ‘autumn break’. They were all very happy and excited to come back to school, play with their friends and learn new things. We have been painting beautiful autumn trees inspired by the artist Vincent Van Gogh.  Look at the photos below to see the kids in action.

We have been learning two new sounds 'p' and 'i'. Together we made lovely panda bears and igloos!

Our third personal goal for the year is cooperation. Ali and Rianna worked together and decorated our ‘cooperation sign’. Well-done girls! We all enjoyed watching a short movie that demonstrates a creative way to cooperate. Here is the link if you want to show it to your kids again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdXwx7DS2AA

Last Friday we said good-bye to Miss Yella. We wished her good luck and gave her a big hug and a nice booklet with our paintings. We would like to thank her again for all that she has done for us.  

Lastly, we had our Entry Point to our new IPC unit- Transport. We had so much fun taking our favorite teddy bears on the number 1 tram to Maalte park in Ghent. We played together, we saw many autumn leaves and had a nice picnic.

We are now ready to learn all about transport!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

All About Me

Lower Pre-Primary - Ms Erin

We finished making our 'all about me' books, a great 'Exit point', the autumn season and more...

First I would like to give a warm welcome to Felipe who joined our class. Felipe arrived from Brazil and he loves dinosaurs. It is lovely to have you join us Felipe!

Over the last two weeks, we have been learning more about ourselves. We counted how many boys and girls we have in our class and discovered that we have more boys than girls. We also found out that there are names with one syllable such as Ming and Shane, while other names can have 4 syllables like Alexander. We were very busy working on our ‘all about me’ books and felt so proud to see them finished. Parents, we hope you liked them as well.

We have also been learning about ‘autumn’. We looked at autumn leaves and felt their texture. We learnt new songs and made some art with autumn leaves. We also practiced counting leaves and matched them to the correct number. 

This week we have been learning about the ‘t’ sound. We made some lovely trees! We played a game in which the kids needed to look at pictures and recognize the first sound of the word. The children enjoyed sorting different pictures and deciding if it starts with ‘s’ ‘a’ or ‘t’ sound.

On Thursday we had our ‘Exit point’ from our first IPC Unit ‘All about me’. We celebrated with Miss Mia’s class, by singing songs together; we danced and played different games using our body. It was great fun!

Have a lovely weekend everyone, see you all on Monday.

All about me (part 2)

Lower Pre-Primary - Ms Erin

All about me' unit is great fun!

During the last two weeks we have sung, played, learnt and created things related to our body. We love the new song “I have a body, a very busy body and it goes everywhere with me…”. We now know that we can blink with our eyes, sniff with our nose, clap with our hands and stamp with our feet!

We read a story about opposites and then we learnt about small and tall. The children had lots of fun looking at different pictures. They needed to decide whether the image was small or tall. We also walked like a tall giraffe and like a small mouse.

Last month we learnt our first personal goal ‘respect’. We watched a puppet show and realized that it is much nicer to be respectful to people as well as to toys. This week we talked about our second personal goal ‘resilience’. We watched a lovely short video about not giving up. It is so important to try again and again because when you do things by yourself - you can be proud! :)

We also started to learn the sound of some letters. We learnt the ‘s’ sound and created beautiful snakes. We also learnt the ‘a’ sound. We then practiced how to cut apples and stick it on the letter ‘a’.

I would like to thank all of you, kids and parents for an amazing teacher appreciation day! You made us feel so special.

It is a great honor to be your child's teacher! I am very lucky to work at a place that feels like a small community.

Thank you for your warm words, the best food, and your beautiful cards and flowers. You are incredible!!

Have a fantastic weekend, see you all on Monday.

All about me

Lower Pre-Primary - Ms Erin
Learning about the different parts of the body, painting ourselves by looking at the mirror, telling each other about our favourite animal, colour and food and many more great activities together....

In the past two weeks our IPC unit was ‘All about me’. We have learnt about the features on our face. The children enjoyed sticking different parts on the black board in order to create a boy’s face. We have been singing many different songs about our body, and counted how many eyes, noses, and fingers we have. Then we played a game! The kids chose a picture and then had to decide if we have one or two parts like this.

 

 

Have a nice weekend!

Welcome to Lower Pre-primary!

Lower Pre-Primary - Ms Erin
It is amazing to see your children learning so many new things, helping each other with a smile, playing together and singing some songs in English!

 

We are so happy to have 12 sweet children from all around the world in our Lower Pre-Primary class. An especially warm welcome to 10 pupils who are new to ISG . We are going to have a great year together!

It has been almost two weeks now since the beginning of the school year and we are learning so many new things.

We are playing together, exploring different materials such as clay and play dough; we are learning to share toys and how to tidy up.

We learned how to line up pretending we are a long train and we are more familiar with the daily routine. 

 

Learning is in the air

Lower Pre-Primary - Ms Erin
...and everywhere you look around!!!

Busy weeks here in Lower Primary….For starters, we have been looking at plants. We learned that plants are very special and important to us. They not only provide us food but also clean air to breath when they are making their own food. We made a diagram of this complex process, come and take a look, I am sure your child will be delighted to explain it to you!

Miss Mia's Class

Dear Parents of Ansh, Arshita, Avyukth, Luiza, Luka, Sebastian, Yashika and Zirak,

It has been a great pleasure teaching and getting to know your lovely children. They have been very responsive and have made me feel very welcome . There is a lovely atmosphere in the class with the children eager to work and learn new things.

 

As I am working with the older children from Corine’s class, I will put more emphasis on the language and arithmetic work. In the area of language the children will learn the phonetic sounds of the letters and eventually blend the letters together to read words. Alongside learning the sounds the children will also practice writing the letters and doing other exercises to develop their fine motor skills. The children will learn lots of songs and poems, this not only appeals to their musical sense but enriches their vocabulary and is lots of fun! The children will also be following ‘ Reading Eggs’ on the computer, more information about this will follow later. The children who can read will have the opportunity to take a book home on a regular basis. In the area of arithmetic the children will learn to count , recognize and write numbers. They will also be exposed to addition and subtraction and other early mathematical concepts. As with the language work, I will not only work with the children in groups but also individually, in this way the children can develop naturally at their own level.

 

During the morning the children also get the opportunity to choose their own work and play in the different areas in the classroom.

 

As I am following the IPC unit on food, many of the exercises in the class are related to this topic. Peeling and grating carrots, counting cherry tomatoes , printing mushrooms, making a fruit basket, drawing with fruit and vegetable templates, planting seeds, have all been a great success!

On Fridays I will send each child’s work home in a folder. The work maybe a letter or a number they are learning to write or a piece of art or something they have done freely themselves. It will be different for each child. Some of the art work, however I will keep till the end of the topic to decorate the class. You should keep the work at home and return the empty folder on Monday morning.

I am looking forward enthusiastically to the months ahead. I am sure both the children and I will have lots of fun and they will make lots of progress.

Mia

Go to the photo gallery for more pictures of Mia's class.

3/06-7/06 Dinosaur week

On Monday we introduced the dinosaur role play masks and other dinosaur- group work activities. Afterwards we talked about the weekend and about what we remembered from the dinosaur museum. This lead to the spider graph hanging in the corridor. In the afternoon we read a Maya Saur factbook and we talked about father’s day coming up. We also began our father’s day presents.

On Tuesday some children did some dictation for literacy. We also made clay out of coffee ground to make our own dinosaur footprint fossil hangers.
In PE we practiced rolling, throwing and catching balls and swimming was fun, everybody is gaining confidence in the water!

On Wednesday some did a bit of literacy and everybody continued on their father’s day presents. We also read a story about dinosaurs cleaning up the rubbish on earth.

Sports day this Thursday was lots of fun; we were dancing, sliding and climbing on 2 different bouncy castles. We also found pictures in a labyrinth with slides and other surprises. I for one am exhausted!

Friday we will do some finishing touches on the father’s day presents we will work on numbers (which add to 10) and on sizes how many children fit into a given dinosaur length. Normally there will also be time for a story and some dancing.

Wild animals

As part of our topic we have made paper animals such as giraffe, tiger, panda and hippo. We have recycled material e.g. paper rolls, tubes, boxes and then have covered these using crepe paper to work out the details. Finally we painted our wild animals with some gorgeous patterns.