Pre-Nursery Bilingual Learning Experience 

Written by Ms. Renee, September 2024.

The Pre-Nursery Chinese class integrates the English class themes for teaching, and expands knowledge points on this basis to help children better understand and master the content they have learned.

In teaching, we cover a variety of activities to enhance the fun, focusing on children's attention and stimulating their enthusiasm for learning. The classroom combines poetry, picture book stories, and crafts to consolidate the knowledge learned, and also incorporates daily skills, enabling children to make progress in their daily lives. We encourage each child to speak in turn, exercising and cultivating their expressive abilities, and laying a good foundation for them to feel and master the beauty of language.

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Preschool Update: Learning under the Happy Environment

Written by Ms. Coco, September 2024.

As the students adapt to the campus life, we focus more on improving their learning abilities. We aim to create the happy learning environment and motivate the learning enthusiasm of students. Students can follow the activities arranged by the teachers and study happily through rice and diverse activities and multi teaching space.

Princess and super hero birthday party was held at the end of August. And we celebrate the Mid- Autumn Festival ceremoniously in September. Students make the moon-cakes, guess the lantern riddles, participate in the games, reading poems under the guidance of teachers. Through these activities, students can learn the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival culture. My little friends have enhance their social ability and team spirit through taking part in the rich and diverse activities.

The teaching topic of this month is All About Me. We learn about our body parts, emotions and family members. Students learn the skills related to themselves by drawing their portrait, playing house puzzles, playing jumping the houses game in class. Our lessons are full of fun, so the students can learn under the comfort and happy environment.

As the teaching develops, students will continue to learn more skills and knowledge under the happy environment. At the meantime, students should arrive at school on time, love to study and keep a positive mind. Teachers will accompany my little friends to grow up with love and patience.

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My Home Learning Journey with Nursery Tigers

Written by Ms. Lenka, September 2024.

As the homeroom teacher of the Nursery Tiger Cubs class, I am thrilled to extend a warm welcome to all new families and students who have joined our vibrant BIS community. 

This week, the theme of our Nursery Tiger Chinese class is "My Home." In this warm unit, we will help children understand the structure and functions of a "home" through various fun activities, such as reading the picture book "Maisy's House," observing the types of items in a room, and playing games to categorize items. Children can naturally associate with real-life scenarios and clearly understand the purpose of each room, for example: "There is a TV in the living room, and I watch TV in the living room." We also made a 3D "My Room" through drawing and crafts, where children express their understanding and love for home through unique color matching and furniture arrangement. We look forward to the children cherishing and enjoying the wonderful time spent with their families even more during this week's learning.

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Reception Tigers' Mid-Autumn Festival Learning Adventure' Learning Journey

Written by Ms. Bear, September 2024.

The first half of September has been very busy for our Reception Tigers. The children in Reception Tigers are on average 4-5 years old. They are good at listening, skilled at learning, and very curious about new knowledge.

To correspond to the English learning theme, we first learned about matching exercises for the five senses, such as "We use our ears to listen to beautiful sounds" and "We use our tongues to taste delicious food"...

While doing the five senses matching exercises, we also trained the children's fine motor skills, teaching them how to use scissors, how to use glue, and how to paste things.

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, we also taught the children the origin of the festival, and then we made a moon lantern together.

The steps for making a moon lantern are: first, knead the yellow modeling clay, press it flat, and then cover it on our "moon," after covering it well, then create our own "moon lantern."

On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. Also known as "Zhongqiu," it is the second most important traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. It has folk customs such as eating mooncakes, moon gazing, playing with lanterns, and enjoying osmanthus. Wish everyone: The moon is round, the family is united. The mooncakes are sweet, and good things come in pairs. A smiling Mid-Autumn Festival, happiness every day. A beautiful life, happiness forever.

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Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration with Reception Lion Cubs

Written by Ms. Minnie, September 2024.

What a wonderful week of Mid-Autumn Festival. We are thrilled to share this exciting learning experience of  Reception Lion cubs.

Now let's see how we embarked on this fun journey together.

Over the past week, we have been exploring a Chinese tradional festival-Mid Autumn Day. We focused on why Chinese people celebrate this festival and how they celebrate this festival. For sure, telling the story of the moon cake is one of the attractive activities. We've known why Goddess in the moon (Chang e), and the boys and girls found Chinese fairy's dresses are so beautiful that they love to explore Chinese traditional history.

After learning about the story of Mid-Autumn Festival, the children have engaged in many fun activities such as singing a Chinese famous poem with dancing, they love to sing and dance with graceful melody.

Then we organized an amazing handmade work which was learning to make a moon cake. This is a very famous and traditional food in China. All the children were looking forward to having this activity. And another important handcraft of Mid-Autumn Day should be Lantern. That is an exciting design for the children. They learned to fold the hard card paper and cut a pattern with scissors.

The final activity was watching a live show of Chinese Gongfu in the school lobby. Our class was surprised by this live show.

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