IB Primary Years Program

Transdisciplinary Theme: How we express ourselves

Let us count the number of ways to express ourselves in the past week!

Nursery:

Central idea:

Feelings and ideas are expressed through play

Lines of inquiry 1: Communication through play

Lines of inquiry 2: Imaginative use of everyday objects

Lines of inquiry 3: Games and toys

During the week, students continued to reinforce their learning of the names of the toys in English. They also explored imaginative ways to play with lego blocks and trains. They rolled the trains in paint to make beautiful tracks, and printing lego blocks to make dots.

Letter ‘C’ was introduced this week, with objects that begin with /c/, such as cat, car, cow, corn, cake, cup. In Math, students identified and recognized numeral 1 through visual cards and pre-writing practices. They also reinforced their rote counting 1 to 10.

What a busy week…

Kindergarten 1:

Central idea:

Stories inform and excite us

Line of inquiry 1:  Stories are connected to our lives and experiences

Line of inquiry 2:  Stories make us feel

Line of inquiry 3:  Ways to tell stories

The children practised and constructed simple sentences using the pronouns, the verbs-to-be and the name of different kind of feelings and emotions; for example, ‘The cat is scared.  The man is embarrassed. The girl is sick.  You are surprised.  They also revised the sight words by playing the flashcard games such as ‘Flip, Read & Collect’ and “Flip & Match”.  Towards the end of the week, they created ‘emotion faces’ using colour papers and play doughs on paper plates to share with their peers.

In Math, the children practised counting aloud and countdown 1 to 30.  They also attempted simple addition within 10 using fingers on the whiteboard and worksheets.

What a busy week…

Kindergarten 2:

Central idea:

Poetry expresses our ideas and feelings

Lines of inquiry 1:Poetry in music

Lines of inquiry 2: Rhymes and word choices

Lines of inquiry 3:Ideas and feelings in poetry

In the mornings, we continued with phonics, focusing on the sounds of word endings, to see if they rhyme. We challenged ourselves to find all the words that rhyme with play. We finished our adaptation of the “Brown Bear” song by singing our own version, “Children, Children, What do you See?” We focused on writing the letter Cc, and reviewed rhyming with the long ‘ee’ sound. We adapted the History of Thanksgiving cartooon story into a poem and chose our characters for our assembly role play. We tried out our lines and or costumes!

In Math, we continued to practice our place value song. We went outside to explore the place values of numbers in their teens and practiced writing them in chalk.

We ended our adventurous week together reviewing our Thanksgiving play audio files and highlighting the parts we need to remember

The pilgrims and natives give thanks for their food after the first harvest in the new world.

Practicing our final speech

Shaping letters for a Happy Birthday to Mrs. Jessica poster using natural materials like leaves and sticks.

This week, we feature specialist subject: P.E.

Nursery

Students have practiced a variety of locomotor skills in different game scenarios in a wide range of situations. We have used active and creative play to introduce, practice, and adapt specific skills as each students’ movement skills become more developed and mature.