Ms. Faye's Perky Preschool Blog

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom" - Artistotle - Self-awareness is important to everyone, even in the early years of the children's lives. This helps children become more reflective and think about their actions and behaviours and how these affect other people around them .  It gives them perspectives as they learn how to step back and consider what others around them are experiencing.  Empathy.  Putting oneself into other people's shoe.  From the physical characteristics, likes, dislikes, preschoolers look at themselves and identify their personalities.  This is how they look like from the outside,    They then traced themselves, colored the inside with just one color. "Why just one color?", they asked.  Because it represents your inside traits.  No one can see it because it is hidden, underneath your outside traits. It will only be known from your thoughts, actions or words.  Then, the students had the opportunity to know more about themselves

Character  is who you are, when nobody else is looking... Preschool unpacked further what CHARACTER is. Outside traits are also known as the physical traits, which are seen or visible.  It also refers to how a person looks like. Inside Traits cannot be seen unless it is expressed from one's thoughts, actions, words, and feelings.  Each person has an outside and inside traits which define who they are. Guess who we are!  The preschools looked at a mirror and studied their facial features. They looked at the color of their hair and eyes, shape of their nose and lips, their heights, lengths of the hair, and other physical traits.  They drew a self-portrait and wrote down clues to help others guess who they are.  Parents, please feel free to come and try to guess the self-portrait too!  Our Trees After watching  Build our Tree , we reflected on our own fruits and branches.  The students wrote their own but also gathered information from other students and teachers in class about wha

Who we are ... an inquiry into the nature of the self; beliefs and values; personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health; human relationships including families, friends, communities, and cultures. Preschool's new unit focuses on the transdiciplinary theme, 'Who we are' In this unit, the students will look at the central idea, 'Our relationships with others build our character and personality.' They will inquire about different personalities and characters, relationships with people and how characters and personalities affect our relationship (cause and effect.)  Through the course of the inquiry, we will see how the students' social and thinking process will develop as they dig deeper into the concepts of form, connection and causation.  As an IB learner, they will aim to grown and develop as caring, reflective, and open-minded individuals who value personal relationship and with others. To start off the unit, our TUNING IN was a story about... Bye-By