Kindergarten 2

"So powerful is the light of unity that it illuminates the whole world." Friede, Paz, Paix, 平和  (heiwa), 和平  Hépíng, Kapayapaan, Peace. There are currently 8 billion people on earth. Each one is different from the other, and no two are exactly alike. Our diversity doesn't just make the world colorful, it helps us to survive and thrive. Ecosystems are the perfect example of how diversity is needed for a community to flourish, as it cannot live with just one species. It needs a variety of plants and animals to survive. This is the same for people. Our differences help us contribute our gifts, beliefs, skills, and ideas to make our communities better, and collectively stronger.  In the IB, our goal is to foster international-minded students who are advocates of a peaceful world through acceptance and respect of our differences as a people, and who value our common humanity. Peace is such a complex concept to grasp, but for kindergarteners, sometimes it's as simple as sha

"Reflection is looking back so that the view looking forward is even clearer." In inquiry-based learning, reflection is an important step which allows the learners to deepen the learning process. It lets the learners pause and revisit the new knowledge, skills, or concepts that they have acquired throughout the unit, and how best they have learned them. Reflection is such a powerful tool because it allows us to get to know ourselves better, and it helps us navigate how we can learn more things in the future.  As we close our unit on trash and the 3Rs this week, the kindergarteners had a chance to pause and reflect on what they have learned in their inquiry under the theme Sharing the planet .  I asked the children: What is the best thing you learned from our unit? Y ichen I learned how to throw the trash in the trash can properly. If we don't throw trash properly, they might go to the ocean and hurt the fish. Kai I learned that we should stop polluting the ocean by throwi