Preschool 5 have been doing a great job exploring the concept of patterns. They were able to understand the concept through skip counting and exploring odd and even numbers. The students rotated between different maths stations focusing on creating patterns using different manipulatives.
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Well done to all preschool 5 children for their wonderful performances during SEK Qatar’s International Day 2017. The children did a fantastic job performing ‘Reach for the Stars’ with the other preschool children, and also celebrating the culture of India … Continue reading
Preschool 5 had a wonderful time visiting Souq Waqif as a provocation for our new unit of inquiry.
We will be learning about ‘Cultures and Traditions’ and we were inspired to begin exploring and asking questions by observing the Qatari culture around us at the souq.
We saw the camels, the falcons, the horses, we visited the Fanar and we saw the traditional clothes and artefacts on sale at the Souq.
We especially enjoyed our trip on the ‘rainbow bus’! 🙂
The children in Preschool 5 had a wonderful day celebrating SEK Qatar Hispanic Day on Thursday.
We particularly enjoyed dressing up in clothes from Spanish speaking countries around the world!
With the help of the Spanish speaking teachers in the school, the children sang songs, played games and listened to stories in Spanish, and made our own Mexican sombreros!
We had a visit from the DP students who sang and danced with us to Spanish songs, and played a traditional Spanish game with us. At the end of the day, we even had some special visits from Spanish speaking parents who read Spanish stories to us.
What a great day!
Thank you to all parents who were able to attend the coffee morning in school on Tuesday.
It was a lovey morning and a great opportunity for us to spend some time together. The children also really enjoyed showing you their classroom and some of the activities which they do in school.
We are looking forward to the next one!
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The children and teachers in preschool 5 have had a great first few weeks in school! We have been playing games and activities to get to know our new classmates and new teachers. We have been exploring our names and … Continue reading
Within our unit of inquiry on imagination, the students in Preschool 5 have been exploring a piece of technology called the ‘MaKey MaKey’.
According to the creators of ‘MaKey MaKey’, it is ‘an invention kit for the 21st century’
The ‘MaKey MaKey’ turns everyday objects into a touch pad for the laptop to use online and only works with materials which will conduct electricity.
The students also explored the transfer of electricity as they discovered that some buttons would only work if they were connected to (touching the arm or hand of) the person holding the electrical source (the grey wire). In this way, the MaKey MaKey initiated an investigation into the properties of electricity.
Using the MaKey MaKey the children were enabled to create banana pianos and playdough bongos! 🙂 It was the perfect tool to enable the students to use technology to be creative, inventive and imaginative.
Preschool 5 had a lot of fun on Book Character Day! We all chose our favourite character from a book and dressed up as them!
We also brought the books to go with our costumes and shared the stories with our friends. Later we showed our creative costumes to the rest of the school in the Book Character Day Parade. All the children and the teachers dressed up. It was a lot of fun being in school dressed up in costumes! 🙂
Here are some photographs of our great day!
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The children in Preschool 5 had a fantastic day at SEK International Day this year! Thank you to all parents who contributed food and artefacts. It was a fun and educational day for all.
It was Maths and Science Day last Thursday morning in Preschool at SEK Qatar!
We had lots of fun rotating through a range of activities with the various preschool teachers. We made lava lamps, did bubble painting and observed absorption through salt name painting for science. In maths, we explored measuring and comparing length, capacity and created tangram pictures using 2D shapes.
Overall, we had a very enjoyable day, and learned a lot! Below are some photographs of the morning.
