Goodbyes are never easy...

This was the last week of another month spent in the Preschool classroom and this means that Preschool will be learning a new Poem to accompany February. In the meantime I would like to share with you the excellent job they did in mastering the January Poem.

It will be a different start to the week this Monday with one Preschool member less. However, we are all certain to meet up again very soon!

Unit of Inquiry

Preschool continued to get more and more knowledgeable regarding Celebrations, collecting a huge amount of information about festivals and celebrations from all over the world. During the course of the week, Preschool learnt:

• that celebrating birthdays is not limited to people, but that countries also celebrate their birthdays. They got to celebrate countries' birthdays with party poppers, blowing out candles and eating cake!

• all about Setsubun and scared Miss Michelotti with their colourful Oni masks! An exciting lesson was spent sharing their knowledge about Oni and learning new things about Setsubun. Preschool even tested their patience by trying out origami and were much more successful than their teacher in doing so. 

• about Fasnacht, where they had the chance to try making their own Fastenwähe (a Basler speciality), which turned out very well! They loved watching the Carnival Procession and decided that they will need to come visit Miss Michelotti in Basel to take part in Fasnacht.  

In art they made their own Carnival masks to go along with the new poem they will be learning this month!

The students are making connections between the different celebrations and that is extremely delightful to hear and see! Their knowledge is shining through and the classroom reflects their thoughts and learning journey. 

Preschool is know ready to apply their learning and this week they will be planning their summative assessments, where they need to create their own Celebration and present it to the class. I will post separately on this, as I will need your help and support for some of it. 

Maths

In maths Preschool was very excited as they got to go around to the different classrooms and ask students questions about celebrations. This information will be used and quantified this week as Preschoolers will continue looking at data handling. 

Language 

Language was quite tough but as usual, an open-minded attitude and fastening their thinking caps tightly, helped a huge deal. Preschool started building their own sentences, by focussing on what makes a sentence. They even wrote their own and will continue doing so this week. 

I apologise for the shorter and slightly late blogpost this week but I have been recovering from a cold, ready for another exciting action packed week! 

Have a goodnight! Best wishes, 

Sabina Michelotti