Perky Preschool

Personal History "Making your own story" - Perky Preschool - SEE THINK WONDER As a provocation for our new unit on "personal histories allow us to reflect on and celebrate growth and change", we did a ' See Think Wonder' Thinking Routine activity.  In groups, the students looked at photos related to the unit and wrote down things that they see, what they thought and wonderings that they may have.  This thinking routine was then used as a springboard to unlock our unit vocabulary words such as: personal, history, events, and change.   TIMELINE The students also completed a simple timeline that shows the past, present and future. As we inquire further in the unit, they will be able to gain more detailed knowledge about their personal history.  NUMERACY / LITERACY This week we also started with our math and reading stations. During the different station activities, each group will get a chance to explore different  concepts and activities that will help strengt...

  The END becomes the BEGINNING.. When we begin by TAKING ACTION. It started with sorting photos of things according to many different groups: transportation, animals, plants, materials, people, nature and things. It narrowed down to three groups:  plants, animals, and people, nature and transportation, materials, things  But as we identified what they all have in common, we called them:  the living and non-living things.  They knew that all living things need food, water, air and love.  Then, the challenge of making the compost box to make healthy soil for food was given to the preschoolers!  They courageously accepted it!    With the help of the Healthy Urban Gardening (HUG) Project Parent Volunteers, the students built the cardboard compost boxes.  They helped cut the cardboard boxes, put it together with tape, made 4 legs, lids,  and added peat moss and charcoal. They carried the boxes next to the planter ready for the othe...

Personal History  "The story of who we are and why we are the way we are." We started unpacking 2 important words that the students need to understand and move on in our inquiry.  It started with making connections.... They noticed that the word 'personal' is in the word 'personality'.  The word 'history' has 'story'   Therefore: Personal History = My Story This unit will focus on their personal stories from past to present.  Inquiring  about growth, changes, journeys and interconnectedness of an individual to the global perspective.    To start of, they listed down things that they know or remember about themselves from 1 to 5/6 year old. They told stories based on their memories or from what they heard or seen from their photos or videos.  In the mind of these fives or sixes, these may be a reality, a vague memory from the past, or simply just an imagination.  Whatever it was, it was great! What is important is to encourage and develop...

Our Preschool Promise:  to be RESPECTFUL  to be CARING and SAFE to be KIND to everyone to be RESPONSIBLE Perky Preschool 2022 - 2023 It has been an exciting week with these 18 energetic and dynamic preschoolers!  Our Wonder Wall has been readied to be filled with their wonderings about the Transdisciplinary Theme on How We Organize Ourselves Everyone wondered what UOI meant, so we talked about it and this sparked the motivation and interest of the preschoolers.   'Roles and responsibilities allow organizations to run smoothly'  The lines of inquiries focused on various communities we belong to, different jobs have responsibilities their own  preferred  job in the classroom.  Tuning In started by first identifying one of the Approaches to Learning  (ATLs)  self-management focusing on organizational skills.  Since one of our main focus in the class for the first week of school is being organized and taking care of their belongings, w...