This week we had a special visitor come visit. It was Ayesha's mummy from K2.2! She is an expert in Indonesian shadow puppetry so she was able to extend our thinking about how light and shadow can be used to tell a story. Thank you for helping us! Here are some photos from her visit:
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Today our friend Aarna turns 5 years old! We celebrated in class with a Frozen birthday cake. Yummy! Happy birthday Aarna!
Last week we had the chance to visit the Botanic Gardens two times -- once during the day and once during the night! There was so much anticipation leading up to our first ever field trip at night. The children discussed how we would know where to find each other in the dark, if they should wear their pyjamas, and made predictions about what we might observed. Oh the excitement! The sun sets around 7:00 PM in Singapore so we met at 6:30 PM so we could watch the world transition from day to night. Some of us made connections to discoveries we had made earlier in the week during our day visit to the gardens noticing that the shadows had changed, but that we could still see reflections in the water. Once it started to get dark, we were ready with our flashlights, glow sticks, and light up toys. What a great opportunity for us to inquire further into the behaviours of light and dark, practice safety in the dark, and take risks by having new experiences and trying new things.
These are some photos of our visit: We also wrote some thank you notes to our parent volunteers on the trip as part of our 'Notes of Gratitude' action as service project:
This week Kindergarten 1 hosted the Deepavali celebrations for the ISS Elementary School. On Tuesday, we celebrated Deepavali as a grade level learning lots about the holiday from our Deepavali experts Ms. Radhika and Mrs. Mano. We learned about important traditions during the festival and made connections to our current unit of inquiry (Light is all around us and behaves in different ways) by exploring the functions and symbolism of light at Deepavali. We also learned a lot about one of our transdisciplinary skills 'safety' as we discussed ideas for how to be safe around candles and lights that might heat up. On Friday, we presented in both Elementary School assemblies. First we shared our version of the story of Deepavali, which we had illustrated and recorded our voices for: Then we did a live presentation of our Deepavali paintings, explaining what important parts of Deepavali they represented. Here are the videos of our first and second assembly performances: Here is some of the kind feedback we got after our performance:
Happy Deepavali everyone!
What a wonderful day full of opportunities to explore our own cultural identities and the multiculturalism of ISS. We had so much fun asking each other about our clothes and our countries and marching across the stage for the Parade of Nations. In Kindergarten 1 we got to explore the Indonesia, USA, Scotland and Philippines country rooms. And what a delicious spread for the international buffet lunch! Thank you to all the mummies and daddies who made this day possible! On Friday we participated in our very first Sports Day! It was a hot, hot day, but we braved the heat and had lots of fun running in a race and playing the games in our activity rotations. Thanks to all the families who came out to support us!
After we had collected all of the love hearts and peace signs, we brought them back to our classroom. We started to talk about how some of them were the same and some were different. First we sorted them into 2 groups: hearts and peace signs. Then we noticed that these symbols were different colours, so we sorted them into 4 groups: pink hearts; red hearts; peace signs with green, blue, pink and purple; and peace signs with yellow, pink, blue, and orange. We are becoming very good sorters!
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