Making a Kimbob together To promote children’s healthy eating habit. We plan to make a new foods fun for children. Children’s eating behaviors, food preferences, and willingness to try new foods are influenced by the people around them. Parents and teachers influence children’s eating practices in several ways. They control availability and accessibility of foods, determine how and when meals are served, model eating behaviors, and establish good manners and etiquette around food. For these reasons, We made a Vegetable Kimbab(Korean Sushi). Children made a Kimbab with their friends and had lots of fun by making it all by themselves. There were positive points we could expect from children by making a Kimbab. • Make food fun • Keep offering new foods • Be a good role model by eating new foods with children • Let children choose new foods • Help children learn about new foods • Try offering one new food at a time • Avoid forcing children to try new foods Playing with goop! Playing with goop was a great “Sensory Play” activity. Sensory Play helped children understood all five of their senses: touch, smell, taste, see, and hear. When several senses were stimulated during play, children got more opportunities to explore, discover, and develop their own creativity at their individual pace. From sensory play, children are allowed to use descriptive expressive language, and help them found a sense of meaning behind a word. Take for instance the word “gooey.” If a child never felt goo, how would he be able to describe it? Playing with goo allows kids to experience the texture and the sense of goo. And once they experience it, then they can describe it with words and their own thoughts. This will build a child’s vocabulary and increase her understanding of new words! Also, children could learn problem solving by measuring, mixing, and cleaning up. Being able to dig, dump, pour, and create helpe strengthen problem-solving skills. Skills are developed by children having control of their actions and experiences, providing them with confidence that they can create and design…all while having FUN! Fine Motor skills are developed while children are squeezing, pinching, picking up, and moving the goo back and forth. This activity was not only strengthen their small muscles, but it helped develop their pencil grip, which sets them up for greater success when manipulating a pencil. Pajama Day
Sad New! Our one of hamsters Chewy died on Monday. The children found out that Chewy had died on Monday. It was a sad news for the children. We then had circle time to discuss what happened to Chewy. The children asked: " what happened to Chewy?" " Why he die?" "Is he coming back tomorrow?" "Maybe he is sleeping?" "Maybe he come back after mapping time?" We continued to ask: "What does die mean?" " it means the animal is not coming back?" " it means you can not wake up again." " Dead because not coming back forever." Based their conversation, we notice the children had a little bit understanding of death; "It's not coming back forever." We then asked where we should put Chewy. They shared: "We should put him back to his house." "We am find a box for him. A big box maybe." "We can draw picture for him so he can remember us." "How about give him some food?" We then invited the children to have a small goodbye ceremony with their drawings. The next day, the children wanted to visit Chewy again. However, the air quality was bad this week (except Tue), so we will visit him next week. There are many questions about Chewy, however, we didn't answer all of them and we just asked them back: "What do you think?" When you child ask? “Why is there a moon?” Don’t reply back a scientific answer. Ask him/her: “What do you think?” He/she will understand that you are telling him/her, “You have your own mind, and your own interpretation and your ideas are important to me.” Then you and he/she can look for the answers, sharing the wonder, curiosity, pain, everything. It is not the answers that are important, it is process-that you and he search together. Carlia Ranaldi- Director, Reggio Emilia Unit of inquriy: Who We Are We are continuing to explore our unit of inquiry" Who We Are", and we are discovering the winter celebration from all around the world as well. We introduced a globe and the children were so eager to know where their countries are and how far it is from Busan to their country , from the perspective of the globe. The children displayed a positive attitude to engage and discuss with their friends. We used books and videos to discuss about how people celebrate their winter holiday. After the video and discussion, a couple of children mentioned: "We are just different." "They are many different Christmas celebrations from around the world" "We are different, we are friends, too", "we are from different school and we are part of school" The children also discovered what they like and what they do in the class with their friends and by themselves. "I can put the matress by myself" "I help Abel to the zipper up" "Anna help me to my books away". "I can make a truck by myself" "I can make a tall building by myself" "I share my toys with my friends" Throughtout the conversation they had with thier friends, the children displayed their understanding of Who We Are. 3D card. As the children love to make cards for their friends, parents and teachers, to continue and challenge their learning, we then showed the children how to make a 3D card. They were amazed when I showed them my 3D Card and were so eager to know how to do it. We all enjoyed this learning process together. What a lovely week! Pajama Day!!! The children can't wait to wear their pajamas to school and shared their bed time stories, toys with their friends. Moreover, the children enjoyed it so much when they read the recipe about how to make banana pancakes, cupcakes and hot chocolate by themselves with a little bit of assistance. What a wonderful day to spend with the children. We made spilt milk The book titled “It Looked Like Spilt Milk” by Charles G. Shaw has always been one of our favorite books to share in Jr. preschool class. What could it be? Sometimes it looks like a tree and sometimes it looks like an ice cream cone. Children found out what it was when we shared the book. It Looked Like Spilt Milk was an uncomplicated book about how children’s imaginations could take a simple cloud formation and turn it into something else. After we read the book, shared stories about sprawling on a picnic mat and watching the clouds. We encouraged the children to take time to do this and thought how did cloud looked like. After that, we made spilt milk pictures together. Children used a bottle filled with white paint to make their pictures. They simply squirted the paint onto the paper. Some of the children did really well at controlling the flow of the paint and others ended up with puddles! Both approaches offered great opportunities for exploring and managing the painting process. Here is a simple song that I made up to go with this book. The Wind Moves the Clouds (tune of "The Farmer in the Dell") The wind moves the clouds, The wind moves the clouds, And when it does they change their shape, The wind moves the clouds. Here are some of the targets/goals that can be readily pulled from this book: •Perceptual skills: Let the children look at the pictures and guess the shapes. Most of the shapes will be easy to guess. Add to this, if desired, by making our own additional shapes •Vocabulary: Naming the items in the book or game (above). •Categorization: Group items - What animal shapes were in the book? What food shapes, etc?
Decorating Our own Special Christmas Tree! Juju's Adventures: Mason&Quinn This week, Mason and Quinn had chosen to take care of Juju. Mason and Quinn drove a car with and had a snack with her. Here is Mason& Quinn's story about being together with Juju! Bella had a adversaure to the main office on Monday!!! Bella escaped on Monday morning!!! How did she do that? The children were so curious about how Bella escaped. They shared: “I think she just open the door by herself.” “I think she is very strong then open the door.” “Maybe she just jump out of the box.” “But how did she go downstairs.” “I think Bella climb up to the stairs then hold the thing on the top and then come out.” “Why did she do that?” There were so many questions about Bella’s adventure. To support their curiosity, I sat next to Bella’s house for few minutes to wait for her to do it again. Lucky me, Bella tried to run away again, so I had a chance to take some photos to show the children how Bella escaped. Here are the photos to share with you. Later on, the children had more questions about Bella: “Where is she from?” “Does she have mom?” “Why is she here?” “What language does she speak?” “Can she talk?” In order to develop their thinking and research skills, we then asked them “what do you think?”, and “how can we find out the answers? “ Therefore, the children spend more time around Bella to find out these answers with their friends through observation, reading books, and discussions this week. When your child asks: “Why is there a moon?” Don’t reply back with a scientific answer. Ask him/her:“What do you think?” He/she will understand that you are telling him/her. “You have your own mind, and your own interpretation and your ideas are important to me" Then you and he/she can look for the answers, sharing the wonder, curiosity, pain, everything. It is not the answers that are important, it is process-that you and he search together. By Carlia Ranaldi- Director, Reggio Emilia Mr.Quimpo's class. During Mr. Quimpo’s lesson, he introduced water painting to the children and showed them how to use it. The children have been enjoying to explore water painting in Mr. Quimpo's course. Mr. Quimpo showed the children some art techniques while they were using water painting, such as drawing a picture with a pencil, tracing lines with oil pestles and coloring with water painting. To support the children’s needs and interests, we then prepared water painting table for them to continue to explore more deeply. Miss Olds's class. Miss. Olds has been practicing with the children for the winter celebration. The children are going to sing and dance with some songs on the last day of school at our ELC hall. Please come to join us at 8:45am. During P.E lesson, Mrs. Son set up different kinds of activities and games, in order to develop the children’s gross motor skills, improve mental, social and emotion development. There are two games which are the children’s favorite; Mr. Wolf, what time is it?, and duck, duck goose. The children can even explain to you how to play these two games. Unit of Inquiry: Who We Are We are continuing to discuss and explore the Unit of Inquiry “Who We Are,” with the children. This week, we focused on “Ways we interact, play and engage with others” through different exploration, such as water painting, making paper chains for trees, cutting different shapes for the class, making Ll booklet and building different objects with Lego. Moreover, we also discussed about how we can listen carefully when our friends are sharing ideas, how we can playing safely and nicely with our friends “When our friends say: “No thank you”, then you should stop.” “Sometime, our friend want to do thing by themselves.” “We should not pull our friend’s face.” “We should share toys with our friends.” “We can make our friends happy when they are sad.” “We can help each other.” “We can do thing together.” Throughout the exploration, the children have been practicing to be aware of how we interact, play and engage nicely with others, which is connected to our Unit of Inquiry; Who We Are. We also found out what our friends like (see the photo attached), so we can make them happy when they feel sad. |
Meet the EARLY YEARS teachersMS.CarolCarol Lesser has over 20 years of experience in early childhood and ESL education. She has taught in Taiwan and Canada and has also worked at international schools in Korea, Indonesia, Singapore and Mongolia. Carol earned a Diploma and a Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood Education from universities in Taiwan. Additionally, she earned a Montessori Graduate Diploma in Vancouver, Canada. Furthermore, she earned a Master of Education in Teaching Second Languages in Toowoomba, Australia. She also has certification in Reggio Emilia, PYP, ESL, and the University of Cambridge International Primary Program. In her free time, Carol enjoys dancing, cooking, organizing social events with her husband, Michael, and traveling. She has been at Busan International Foreign School since 2015. kATHY SONKathy Son has over 20 years of experience in education. She has worked at BIFS since the winter of 1995. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Child Development in California State University of Fullerton and has done a Teacher Credential Program in Concordia University, Irvine. In her free time Kathy enjoys going shopping and watching movies with her family. Archives
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