Welcome to Kindergarten 3
Our New UOI- Habitats
We walked around the Farm today to look at the different animals that live there and explore all the different habitats. We saw the waterfall, pond, hen coop, quail cage and falaj. We saw the goats, hens, quails and frogs. We could not find any turtles. We are excited...
Shape Monsters invade KG3
The shape monsters created by our students were designed to teach kids about basic shapes while integrating the process art and individual creativity. Each monster was definitely individual and incorporated rectangles, triangles, circles, squares, pentagons,...
Writing Holiday News
It was lovely to see most of the children back at school, having rested and grown. We are working on writing and publishing our holiday news. We enjoyed welcoming our new classmate, Taiba. We are excited for the new decade and for lots of new learning in 2020.
New Year, New Time
In KG3, we have kicked new year learning about time! We have looked at digital and analogue clocks and have been learning to tell the time to the hour! We know that Mathematicians use correct terminology, so when recounting time to the hour we use, 'O'clock'. We have...
Spiriting into Holidays
What a great time we have had learning over the last 16 weeks! There has been so many changes and development in our students that spirit week has been a lovely way to finish the term. The African proverb says it takes a whole village to raise a child. That means an...
Crazy Spirit Week
It’s nearly the holidays- we have been having a fun and busy week with Sports Day, consolidating our learning and dressing up... Well done to everyone for all your learning! It’s Pyjama Day! Look at how confident and strong we are. We learnt about doing descriptive...
Holiday Happiness
With the holidays upon us, we want to wish you all a safe and happy holiday. If you are looking to help out your child with their learning, why not play a board or card game with your child. It can teach them about teamwork, taking turns, patience, and how to...
It’s Assembly Week!
Wow what a crazy busy week of practicing and putting together all our bits and pieces of learning. The children have done an amazing job of learning dances, words of songs and speaking parts. They also painted their feelings scarf. We have a slide show of the children...
Data Collection – Maths
This week we have been collecting data and representing it through Glyphs. Glyphs are a pictorial representation of data that help students organize and analyze data. Check out these festive elve glyphs that K3 International class have made this week during Maths.
Healthy Choices-We Made Fruit Kebabs!
Wowee! We are learning about making healthy choices and that's why we made fruit kebabs. It was very exciting. First, we helped to prepare the fruit and then we made our own fruit kebab. It was healthy and delicious. We are also learning to do procedural writing and...
K3 Preparing for Athletics Day
In order to prepare them for Athletics Day, K3 students have been taking part in different running, throwing and jumping activities in PHE. This week they learned about moving over, under and through different obstacles. They also practiced working in a team and now...
Fun Fruit Kebab
In English this week we have been learning how to make fruit kebabs. We followed a procedure to successfully achieve our task. We learned how to structure writing the procedure by including a title, equipment, ingredients and instructions. After making our kebab, we...
Outdoor play, fun today!
As part of our unit of inquiry, we have been looking at healthy lifestyles. For students, healthy lifestyles can be achieved through our outdoor adventures. Playing outside helps children to develop through play, which is a fun way of helping children to learn...
Being Scientists and Weighing
For our Unit of Inquiry we are finding out about how to be healthy. This week we went to the Science lab. Wow! Thank you Mr Perry for showing us how to check for starch, protein and sugar in mixtures. We observed the results in a cookie mixture, starch mixture and egg...
Heavy and Light!
We are continuing to measure up a storm in KG3. We have measured length and now weight. We have inquired, discovering that even though two objects are the same size, they can have different weights. Some materials weigh more than others. Feathers, balloons and sponges...
The 49th National Day
We felt happy and excited to be Omani and/or living in Oman. Thank you to all the Omani ladies who organized and helped make this amazing and special celebration for Sultan Qaboos's birthday and the 49th birthday of Oman. Thank you also to all the mommies who helped...
Short but Sharp
Although a short week, it was packed full of learning. Our unit of inquiry had us visiting the science labs to test our food for sugar, fats, proteins and starch. We discovered that different foods provide us with nutrients to support our body development. We have...
Writing Stories About The Long Weekend …
We worked very hard on finding the first and last sound of words, sounding out words and labeling our picture. We also practiced running around the track and stretching our bodies afterwards. We practiced our hand writing and built our 100s board.We practised...
Creating And Being Creative …
We explored different materials as we expressed our feelings. We made a reading book about what we were doing so that we could practise our sight words, look for beginning sounds and take clues from the pictures. We also learnt the 'ing' sound group.
Busy, busy times in KG3
From learning to community events, we have had an extremely busy week in KG3. Mother Tongue Monday was a great success. Children relish the opportunity to read and play games in their language. Continuing to build vocabulary in a child's mother tongue is very...