Tag: Kindergarten

Students sitting on colourful carpets, looking at a dog and her owner

27/03/20242023-2024 School YearAnimals, Guest speaker, JK, Kindergarten, Pre-K, Presentation, Sharing the Planet, SKby ISL

Tand’Aime

Kindergarten recently had some very special visitors. Céline Gorin and her dog, Luna, came to ISL to talk about their work in Tand’Aime, where they provide animal mediation services. They taught us more about dogs and how to interact with them. The Pre-, Junior and Senior Kindergarten students participated enthusiastically in the activities, displaying great listening skills. They were caring …

11/01/20242023-2024 School YearBuddy Reading, Grade 1, Grade 9, Kindergarten, Middle school, Pastoral, Primary school, Readingby ISL

Gruffalo Retelling with Makaton

In their pastoral lessons, the Grade 9 students recently prepared a story for the Kindergarten and Grade 1 classes. They told the story of The Gruffalo using “Makaton”. Makaton is a unique language programme that uses symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate. This activity enabled Grade 9 students to work on adaptation and improvisation skills, empathy and communication …

students standing on stage wearing costumes of their favourite book characters for book week

15/12/20232023-2024 School YearBook Week, Events, Kindergarten, Library, Primary school, Readingby ISL

Book Week at ISL

We recently celebrated Book Week at ISL. This time our theme was “One World Many Cultures”. We had a lot of different activities during the week looking at books from many different countries and celebrating the melting pot that is ISL. The week wouldn’t be complete without a big character parade, with everyone dressing as their favourite book or character. …

A 3D cityscape made from coloured paper on a dark-blue background

07/12/20232023-2024 School YearArt, How the World Works, Kindergarten, Mathematics, SK, Unit of inquiryby ISL

Kindergarten Cityscapes

As part of our transdisciplinary theme on How the World Works and our studies on height and length in Maths, the Senior Kindergarten students made 3D cityscapes from paper and cardboard. They had to think carefully about the size of each of the buildings that they created when placing them in their cityscapes, placing the taller ones at the back …

01/12/20232023-2024 School YearIB Learner Profile Attributes, Kindergarten, SKby ISL

Learner Profile Attributes in Senior Kindergarten

The students in Senior Kindergarten (SK) have been working on what makes a good citizen of the world by focusing on the IB Learner Profile attributes. They discussed what it was like to be Knowledgeable, a good Communicator, a Risk Taker, Caring, an Inquirer, Balanced, Reflective, a Thinker, Open-Minded and Principled and then wrote about each attribute and illustrated it. …

14/11/20232023-2024 School YearFrench, High school, Kindergarten, Middle school, Primary school, School tripby ISL

La Semaine du Goût 2023

La semaine du goût (tasting week) is a week-long event that French schools organise each year in October. That week is an opportunity to celebrate and learn about many aspects of food. The Grade 9 and 10 students focused on chocolate this year. In their French lessons, they brainstormed what they knew about cocoa: its origins, its history, how it …

Kindergarten students building bridges with blocks and testing them with colourful teddy bear figures

14/11/20232023-2024 School YearHow the World Works, Inquiry, Kindergarten, SK, Unit of inquiryby ISL

Building Bridges in Senior Kindergarten

As part of their Unit of Inquiry under the transdisciplinary theme of How The World Works, the Senior Kindergarten students have been busy building and testing the strength of bridges. They have discovered many things along the way and amongst their huge successes, they have had many collapsed bridges too! Take a look at some of their stronger structures below.

A screenshot from the Three Little Pigs animation showing a pig standing in front of a straw house

13/10/20232023-2024 School YearArt, How the World Works, ICT, Kindergarten, Reading, SKby ISL

SK’s Three Little Pig Animations

As part of Senior Kindergarten’s unit of inquiry “How The World Works”, the students have been learning about different building materials and their properties. They read the story of The Three Little Pigs, then used the role play area to reenact the story. Finally, they created their very own pig puppet shows on the iPads. They decided that the straw …

Kindergarten students driving toy cars during their outdoor learning lessons

05/10/20232023-2024 School YearJK, Kindergarten, Outdoor learning, Pre-K, Primary school, SKby ISL

Outdoor Learning in Kindergarten

Outdoor Learning is a great time to put students’ learning into practice in a different setting, combining social and thinking skills with physical development. Some sessions are based on Maths or Phonics objectives, and some are linked to the Units of Inquiry. Lately, Kindergarten students have been practising their number skills during Outdoor Learning by counting leaves, building towers corresponding …

29/06/20232022-2023 School YearEvents, JK, Kindergarten, Outdoor learning, Picnic, Pre-K, SKby ISL

Kindergarten Teddy Bear Picnic

The Kindergarten children hosted a Teddy Bears’ Picnic recently for all of their parents (and bear friends!). The parents came with their picnic blankets and sat in the shade of the

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Kindergarten

Gruffalo Retelling with Makaton

Book Week at ISL

Kindergarten Cityscapes

Learner Profile Attributes in Senior Kindergarten

La Semaine du Goût 2023

Building Bridges in Senior Kindergarten

SK’s Three Little Pig Animations

Outdoor Learning in Kindergarten

Kindergarten Teddy Bear Picnic

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