Preschool 5 had a lot of fun at the Friendship Challenge Field Trip yesterday! The children did a great job working cooperatively with each other and demonstrating teamwork. Both the Bunny Class and the Ninja Turtle Class were able to put into action the new skills they have learned throughout the unit, and demonstrate the learner profile attributes of ‘open-minded’ and ‘caring’. The children made new friends, were kind to each other and also had a lot of fun! Well done Preschool 5! 🙂
Preschool 5 has been working hard practicing and reviewing their sounds, reading, and tricky words during their English stations. Through the use of iPads, Bee Bots, touch buttons, Hot Dots, Smart Board, games, puzzles, magnetic letters, and white boards they are also having fun learning through technology and hands-on activities. Keep up the great work, Bunnies & Ninja Turtles!
The children in Preschool 5 have been having lots of fun working with numbers. The children are enjoying counting forwards, backwards, and counting on. They are working hard in small groups practicing to recognize and order numbers, and also matching numerals to the correct amount. They are enjoying playing games which help them to recognize amounts in a set, and to combine and separate sets.
Preschool 5 is well into our new unit on Relationships. We will talk about the different types of relationships we have with people, beginning with friendships. Both preschool 5 classes are learning about how to make and keep friends. By participating in the Friendship Challenge, students are practicing being open-minded, playing with and respecting their classmates. Keep up the great work, Preschool 5!
A few weeks ago, the school celebrated our first special event, Hispanic Day! The students sang songs in Spanish, heard stories read in Spanish, played games, and had their faces painted. All the activities were run by the middle school students. Parent volunteers even came to our Preschool 5 classes to read stories to the students. Both classes cannot wait for the next special event!
Preschool 5 has been doing a lot of activities to help reinforce our Unit of Inquiry on Communities, from building our very own communities using 3D shapes to hearing about the roles of parents in our own community. We even went on a field trip to the Civil Defense to meet with and see the tools that Fire Fighters use to help in our own community of Doha. The students have been taking advantage of these learning opportunities, practicing their inquiry skills by asking questions to learn more. What a great way to end our unit, Preschool 5!
This past week, we introduced the students to Kelso’s Choices. We are teaching them to become empowered and confident (one of our attitudes) in themselves to solve their own small problems. A wheel of choices should have gone home with the students. Please go over it with them at home and have them practice making their own choices to resolve issues. Some of them have already been using the different choices at school. Great job, Preschool 5! We hope that you remember that you are “Smart enough and strong enough to solve your own problems.” -Kelso
The school year is off to a fantastic start! Students have been doing well getting used to the classroom and school routines. We hope that they continue the great job throughout the rest of the year!
This week we introduced two more reading strategies. Students began to use the Chunky Monkey strategy, which encourages students to look for small words inside big words, and the Skippy Kangaroo strategy. The Skippy Kangaroo strategy encourages students to skip the word they do not know, read the rest of the sentence, and come back to the word they did not know to try and read it. Additionally, students practiced their sequencing and inference skills. Please see the anchor charts that we use in class pictured below. We would appreciate it if you encourage your children to use these strategies at home.
