Halloween

On Halloween: mums came to help carving our "jack-o-lanterns", we dressed up in our best costumes, nursery and pre-k came for trick or treat. Just spooky, busy and fun!!!

Dancing, dancing dancing...

Our Dance studio is always busy. The children are always engaged in learning ballet steps and on, also, rehearsing the dances we have to present for the school, on the 28th of this month.

The Police came to school (the community helpers unit, still!)

On October 28th, the "Stadtpolizei Zuerich", came to school to show us what they do to help and protect people. They came all prepared and we have all learned very much and had lot of fun.
Thank you, police officers!!

Dance video - Lou introducing the unit

Dance, dance, dance...
We are always dancing now! And we are trying new forms of dance, as well. We did "shadow dancing". It was a huge success!
Since we've started the unit, we've been also learning a ballet dance. We had a proper introduction with Lou (Myriam's daughter). Challenging, but the children are extremely engaged. I am so proud of them...

A Great start!!!

We have finally started the Dance unit of inquiry. And it has been a lot of fun! We've created our own Dance studio, with a proper bar, clothes and music. The children have been very busy using this center. They just love it...
We've also initiated one of the dances we will have on the dance show, end of next month: Fire Dance (Bolero). It will look nice and powerful! You'll see...

Autumn Break

Happy holidays, everybody!
I already miss my "angels pangels". Anyway, we see each other again in 2 weeks. Have fun!

Our next unit of inquiry is:

It has to do with movement and music. We will again request your participation. We will start it, on October 20th. I am so full of ideas... I can't wait to start!

On the last day of the Unit on "Helping hands" - Community helpers...

After six weeks, we came to an end. Sad, really! What a great unit! So much learning took place. A lot of role play, maths and social studies. The children had fun and we (both me and Myriam) also. Thanks to everybody that has helped us.

Can you try to guess our next unit of inquiry?

"I came to school, dressed as..." - part 3

We have a police officer, a doctor and 2 great teachers. If you need, we have...!

"I came to school, dressed as..." - part 2

Aren't they cute?

"I came to school, dressed as..." - my favorite community helper

After studying them all, the children came to school as their favorite community helper. From police officers, firefighters, bankers, doctors and teachers. Funny! I loved it.
It took parent's collaboration. Thank you, mum and dad!It's always nice to see the family participating and involved.

Parent's occupation show and tell - part 2

Some jobs are very obvious, aren't they not? Both kids and me loved it.
They are also acquiring skills to help them express their ideas.

Parent's occupation show and tell

Our children brought things that shows what their parents do, at work. They had to show and say something about it. Again, very interesting!

We do puppet shows...

The children were very engaged doing community helpers puppet shows. Very interesting!