Ms. Faye's Perky Preschool Blog

Happy Holidays from the Preschoolers!!  Santa visited us at school!     Chiristmas Market   

Family Tree The preschoolers have been busily working on their Family Tree as they continue to inquire about their personal histories. Researching and finding out more about your family's history helps the young learners establish their identity, embrace their cultures and traditions and understand who they are.  They learn about the past and feel a great connection to them as they gain knowledge about them.  It was also interesting to hear them identify their relatives from both sides of parents. They are starting to know these people by name which hopefully could lead to deeper curiosity and search for knowledge about them.  To add a little artistic touch into their presentations, the students were challenged to present the Family Tree not just only as a tree, but rather in a more creative and unique way!  See the great ideas they were able to come up with for their presentations.     "Sea my Family" Some students chose to present the members as fishes in an aquarium. 

  Every member must SHIELD and PROTECT the family. And as the child grows, certain values and beliefs within the family are what they use as an anchor in the process of development and change.    To gain more conceptual understanding of their personal history, they created a family shield also known as a "Coat of Arms" in collaboration with Art. They thought about a symbol... an animal... a word... an activity  to represent their family.  .  Each child worked carefully, planning the colors, words and figures which showed their pride in their work that would represent their own family. Seeing the result, each shield gave us a snapshot of the values and the essence of each individual families Evidently,  it is precious to these young learners to be the voice at school about their families.  Their eyes sparkled as they hold the beautiful,colorful piece of family shield.  They also started working on the Family Tree that will show  the relationship of the different members of the