What a wonderful day! K1 experienced their first ever ISS International Day. We viewed the Parade of Nations, some drama performances, and visited 4 different county rooms - Japan, China, Malaysia, and Australia. The day ended off with a delicious international food buffet. Everyone showed their national pride and showed a lot of interest and open-mindedness to the cultures of others! Thanks to all the families, teachers, and students who made this special day possible!
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Yesterday we had our first Skype call with our new Kindergarten friends at our sister school, BISS, in Beijing. Both classes of children were so excited to meet each other after a few weeks of technical delays. First we greeted and introduced ourselves by name. Then we each had a chance to show some exciting things from our classrooms and learning. Some of us even prepared special gifts to surprise our new friends! Next time we talk to our friends we want to do even more sharing. In between our video calls we will share things via email. We are currently working on preparing videos of our goodbye song and Keshav reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear to send to our friends. They will be sending us a video of their goodbye song which they sing in English...and Mandarin!
First our families played with us and joined our Morning Meeting. Using the story as inspiration to focus on FORM, we created portraits of our parents, concentrating on accurately representing the shapes and colours of their physical features. We also wondered: "How am I connected to the people around me?" We drew pictures of ourselves and our friends and family, as well as the things we have in common. For example, our favourite foods and activities. We finished the morning with a shared potluck snack! Thank you to all the mums and dads who joined our Family Morning and supported our learning! We hope you had fun!
First up was our big race! We ran down the track as fast as we could from start to finish line. Then it was time for our activity rotations:
Back at school the following week, we reflected on our experience by viewing the photographs and creating drawings and writing of our favourite activities. Some of us carried our reflections into our free play by building a representation of the Sports Day stadium. These children re-enacted Sports Day events and added labels like "PE", "Orchard", and "Newton".
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