For our Celebrations topic and Turks and Caicos Heritage week, the Kindergarten children learned about many of the things that make Turks and Caicos beautiful and unique. They were encouraged to share their favorite thing and what it meant to them.

We learned that Turks and Caicos Islanders come together during celebrations and cook many of the old traditional foods such as Johnny Cake, Souse and Boiled Fish and Grits. We listened to the story of ‘The Stone Soup’ and made our own soup with Johnny Cake.

Celebrations are a time to dress up in our Sunday Best. In the past, this would be made from flour bags. Each child painted their own Turks and Caicos national dress or shirt to learn about the national pride of each island.

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To help us learn our numbers we have been having fun with shaving foam, Cuisenaire Rods, stamps and ink pads, big wooden numbers, games with dice and spinners, number puzzles, making spiders and singing number rhymes. It is hard work but lots of fun!

We are learning to count with 1:1 correspondence, write numbers using the correct formation, count on and count back, order numbers and find different ways to make each number Eg. 2+2=4, 1+3=4, 3+1=4, 4+0=4, 0+4=4. Here are a few photos to show the Kindergarten children in action…

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The skies darkened as the children came to school…

“Rain is coming,” they began to say.

They looked up at the sky all turning grey…

“Oh my, what a day. But we still can have fun without the sun.”

The kindergarten children were very excited to play outside after the rain had stopped.  One of the girls was wearing rain boots and decided that she could walk in the puddles, but then realised that her friends couldn’t. The teacher asked, “How would it be possible for everyone to pass?” All of the children thought of many different ways of what to do… then they all helped together to make a stepping stone bridge from the big stones to cross over.  What an ingenious idea!

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