Perky Preschool

  RELATIONSHIP .. a bond .. connection ... chain or link Kinds of Relationship Family  Smallest group in the community. They are the people who are related to you like mommy, daddy, brothers or sisters, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins.  Friendship Someone you can have fun with. You play together and laugh together. They accept you for who you are. Someone who makes you smile when you are sad and helps you when you when other people are not nice to you.  Romantic People you love and care for so much and wants the best for the other person. They want to get to know each other, get married and start a family.  Acquaintances  Everyday we meet a lot of people in our lives. We talk to them, they help us in the community and sometimes we even play or work with them. However, we only spend a short amount of time and sometimes we may not see them again.  Exploring Connections with my FRIEND A Venn Diagram is used to explore relationships and compares s...

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...

What are the different kinds of relationships? The preschoolers sorted out pictures according to similarities, connections, and relationships. Together we identified 4 kinds of relationships. 1. Romantic Relationship  2. Family Relationship 3. Friends  4. Acquaintances  Do I know my own feelings? Children should develop skills in understanding their own emotions and knowing how to react to certain situations. This emotional awareness is important for them to better know and understand themselves, their personalities and characteristics and how these affect their relationships with others.  Using the Emoji Compass Activity, the preschoolers were presented with a scenario and decided on which emojis to go: happy, angry, sad, worried or calm. They were encouraged to think for themselves and identify their own feelings as if they are in that situation.   Sample Scenario:  "You are playing a game that you really like and you lost. H...

Adults have a great impact in the lives of the children.  We are the most valuable resource they have during their development We can be intentional with our words with our actions and be encouraging  in their pursuit to finding out who they are. To these children our   words become theirs our  actions become their personalities and the way we relate with them nourish the seeds of their characters. Who we are, are often the very things that becomes them. - Ms. Faye - This week the Perky Preschoolers started on the new unit inquiring on  " Our relationships with others build our character and personality" under the Transdisciplinary Theme, Who We Are. This unit will focus on the following Lines of Inquiry and Concepts: Different personalities and characters (Form) Different relationships with people (Connection) Our characters and personalities affect our relationships (Causation) As they go through the inquiry process, the Preschoolers will approach their ...