Let's wash our hands! With all the recent developments happening lately, we had a little hand washing experiment. I covered the children's hands with oil and "germs" (black sand powder). First we printed our hands on paper to see all the germs present when we don't wash our hands. Next, we washed our hands with just water and printed our hands again. Wouldn't you know it, a lot of the germs still remained! Even after we washed our hands with soap, there were still some germs between our fingers and around our thumbs. It took some of us several tries, but with proper hand washing we got all those germs off, phew! Now all of us are expert hand washers, well done Kindergarten! How The World Works This week we started our new Unit of Inquiry: How The World Works The central idea is 'people use simple machines to make life easier.' As an introduction to the unit, Ms Bustamante wanted to find out what we already knew about simple machines. Some of us were very knowledgable about machines, and she challenged us further by working together to make a machine.
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Chinese New Year Celebrations We learned about Chinese New Year celebrations. We heard the story about Nian, the monster, and that we decorate with red to scare him away. We also heard a Chinese Folklore called "The Magic Paintbrush." We enjoyed coming up with our own magic paintbrush stories, and what acts of kindness we could do if we had our own magic paintbrush. Inspired by the language Mandarin, and calligraphy brushes, we made our own calligraphy paintings using the zodiac animals characters. We really enjoyed practicing the Chinese characters, and wanted to practice drawing the numbers as well! We practiced drawing the Chinese characters as well as the English numerals next to them, in our red and gold sand trays. We also worked together with our Grade 2 buddies to build long chains to create a paper chain dragon, and playing Hot Orange! Similar to hot potato, but with an orange and to Chinese New Year festive music.
Celebrating Pongal We continued to learn about how different cultures express themselves by exploring the celebration "Pongal" from South India this week. We did a variety of activities such as making miniature rice pots after eating Pongal, decorating cows and making kites. 100 Days of School! Hard to believe that we've had 100 days of school so far! I love all the efforts everybody put into their 100 themed shirts. We enjoyed celebrating the number 100 by participating in many activities such as: taking 100 steps, running for 100 seconds, stamping 100, stacking 100 cups, sorting 100 items, sticking 100 stickers and writing about "When I'm 100 years old..." 100 Year Old Kindergarteners 100 Steps Stacking 100 Cups Sorting 100 Items
What a wonderful first week back, catching up with our friends and talking about our holidays. Our focus for inquiry this week was in our year long ‘How We Express Ourselves’ unit with the central idea ‘Cultures express themselves through celebration’. We spoke about New Years Day and watched some of Singapore's fireworks, then we made our own fireworks paintings and wrote some New Year's resolutions. We also enjoyed catching up with our Grade 2 buddies, making new friends and listening to lots of stories.
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AuthorWe are a class of 4-6 year olds at an international school in Singapore! We learn by playing, inquiring and having fun. Our teacher is Ms Bustamante, and this is our learning journey! Archives
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