KG 1| KG 2| Nursery |

 

 

KG 1


KG1 is an exciting adventure for the students. It is their first time away from their parents and their first introduction to formal schooling.


KG1 students learn how to share and accept responsibilities such as feeding the rabbit, fetching the water, and tidying up the classroom. Respecting the rights of others is important during show and tell as they learn to be quiet and listen when someone is talking. Most importantly they learn about friendship.


KG1 students are introduced to the PYP program during their first year of school. They learn what it means to be caring and to take risks and think. Many of the KG1 students don’t speak English when they start school. That’s another exciting challenge for them as they discover a new language. Through this discovery they become independent learners.

During “active learning” students plan, do and review in English. They tell the teacher what activity they plan to do, do it, and then reflect on it. This in addition to many field trips, cooking activities, performances during assemblies, and poetry recitals enhances the children’s language acquisition and encourages them to learn.


We cover four units of inquiry in KG1. They are: Myself, Pets and Farm Animals, Water, and Nursery Rhymes. These units cover a wide range of science, math, social studies and language.


At IISA it’s always fun to be in KG1.

 

KG 2

 

KG2 is a very demanding year for our younger learners as they are beginning to develop early reading, writing and numerical skills and learning how to communicate and record their knowledge in a more structured form than in KG1.

 

Social expectations are also more challenging as the children are encouraged to share their ideas in small and large groups, and take on different roles, i.e. as leaders, negotiators and sometimes as observers and listeners.

There is still time for structured 'play' and free choice activities where many newly introduced concepts and skills are practiced and reinforced. The children are encouraged to be more independent and take more ownership about their work whilst developing good work habits as life long learners.

 

Using the PYP we explore six central ideas over the year. The children learn how to problem solve, ask and answer questions, relate their own experience of the world to new knowledge and begin early research and information skills.

 

The classroom will be rich in language, with all the children taking an active and participatory role in their day to day search for new knowledge and understandings.