Perky Preschool

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 membe...

  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 relat...

"Why are all people different?" -Tamaki- I think that this is one of the most difficult question a child can ask.  Even I couldn't find the correct or the exact answers to this. However, 'Guess the Baby' experiment shows that we, somehow all look alike at some stage in our lives - when we are babies.  We looked at the strip of papers and the names written. We found out that a lot of the guesses where wrong and mixed up. We asked some teachers and students and they had a difficult time guessing the babies.  "They all look alike!" was the common response that we heard. But, if we look closely and pay attention, we can see that, the same baby is still there. So today, we have revealed the names of the babies!  Look at their photos... THEN and NOW Tamaki "The shape of the face looks the same."   Ciel Not one person guessed Ciel.  Well, Ciel didn't even recognize his own photo!  Koh "He still looks the same."  Daisy "Her smile and...