School Update
Early Years Update The Importance of Early Years Childhood Education The learning capabilities of humans continue for the rest of their lives but not at the intensity that is demonstrated in a child’s Early Years stages of learning. For the first 3 years, parents play a vital part in their child’s learning and help to set the foundation for continued learning as the child enters Early Years.
What do you like to do at school? Grace Pre-K: “I like painting.”
What’s your favorite thing about school? Hugo Pre-K: “I like PE with Ms. Mari!”
Why do you like coming to school? Pre-K Avery: “Because I like to play with toys every day.
In Early Childhood Education, children learn how to express their emotions, like happiness, sadness, and anger. They also work on how to cope with their feelings. In addition to this, they learn to work on many skills such as listening, take turns with others and learn to cooperate with other children their age. This is just a few of the many important skills that students gain while in the Early Years. Our students this year have had another busy but fruitful school year. Some of our Early Years teachers have gone around their classes asking a few students just what exactly they liked about this school year? Have a read below of some of their responses.
What’s your favorite What do you like about What do you like the What is your favorite Why do you like school? most about coming to thing about school? coming to school? thing to do at school? Liryn K2: "I like playing Patton Pre-K: “Because Pordee K1: “I like to play Jayden K1: “I like my school? on the playground." tag with my friends.” teacher Ms. Shannon.” Cruise K1: “I like I love friends.” playing with cars.”
What is your What is your favorite What is your favorite What do you like the What is your favorite thing about school? thing to do at school? favorite thing to do at most about coming to thing about school? school? Pun Pun K2: "I love to Noth K2: “I love Anna K3: “ I like meeting school? write words!" playing with my friends with our 5th grade Big Eric K3: “I love Math!” Casey K1: “I like to and I love the teachers Buddies every week!” play with my friends.” who teach me." 7
What is your favorite What is your favorite thing to do at school? thing about school? Nana K3: “I like Thyme K2: “I like compainting the blue whale ing to school because it in art class.” is so fun! I like to read books."
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What is your favorite thing to do at school? Otto K3: “The best thing to do at school is sums in Maths.”
School Update
Art in the Early Years
Before a child speaks, it sings. Before they write, they paint. As soon as they stand, they dance. Art is the basis of human expression and a unique way of knowing and understanding the world. (Phylicia Rashad) Especially For Early Years children, art is a place for them to trust their ideas, to trust themselves and to explore what is possible. Our K2 and K3 students entered the school year having a new Art room. Ms.Ting Yang who is our Art teacher for the Early Years has gotten the students to make some magic there. Students explore colors, lines, shapes and experiment with a range of media, materials and techniques in the creation of artworks. Fine motor skills are involved during the process of drawing, painting, coloring, collage and making crating. Cognitive development gets developed for example if we push very hard with a crayon the color is darker, it can also express the feeling of anger. Math skills are getting developed when it comes to sizes, shapes, patterns and symmetry. As children are learning new vocabularies and using visual characters to describe and share their artworks, they develop languages skills especially for Chinese. Process art has been encouraged for young children. With time the young children will realize how dots become lines, and how lines turn to shapes, how shapes and lines make different forms.
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Students are exploring "Celebration" by Students are exploring different textures by painting and decorating the dragons for Chinese painting on hard/smooth stones and soft/rough New Year. cottons
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Visual arts education helps to develop children’s sensory awareness, enhances sensibilities and emphasizes particular ways of exploring, experimenting, inventing and communicating visually. The true purpose of art education is not necessarily to create more professional artists, but to create more complete human beings who are critical thinkers, who have curious minds and who can lead productive lives. - Mr. Tim Byrum, PYP Princpal of Student and Faculty Affairs
Students are exploring Insects by creating their butterfly wings
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Students are exploring patterns and symmetry by making a special necklace
Students are exploring Habitats through creating a blue whale on 30-meter canvas
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