IPS Specialty Classes Have Begun!
The children at The International Preschools enjoyed their first week of specialty classes beginning on September 14th. Our Green Rooms (3s), Pre-K (4s), and Junior K (4s/5s) classes will take part in Library, Music, Movement, and Technology once a week, as they have in previous years.
To accommodate our new social distancing and hygiene guidelines, a few changes were made to the way that specialty classes take place. Our specialty teachers will be visiting each classroom, rather than having the classes come to them in each location’s multipurpose rooms. Books are not being lent out to students for the time being to minimize contact germs. The specialty teachers will sanitize any equipment used between classes as well. And this year, Mr. Doug will be playing a ukelele instead of the guitar, as he has obtained a new ukelele for each location!
Other than that, the specialty classes will remain the same as they have always been. The children will sing and explore with instruments and music tempos in Music class. In Library, the children will learn finger plays and poems, and of course listen to lots of stories both read from books and told from memory. Technology class will continue to utilize the iPads, BeeBots, and StopMotion to strengthen early coding skills. Movement class will incorporate creative dance and gross motor skills via music and storytelling.
We are looking forward to some wonderful experiences in our specialty classes this year!
Interested in joining the IPS community? Learn more about our school by clicking here: https://www.ipsnyc.org/public_class/example-class/
With the 2020-2021 school year approaching, the team at The International Preschools have been preparing to welcome back children into our 76th Street and 86th Street locations. This will be the first time since mid-March that classes will take place in person, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
At The International Preschools, celebrating diversity and an awareness of how we are all different, yet we are all alike, is the cornerstone of our play-based learning philosophy. Children as young as age 2 are able to pick up on differences…and the acceptance and reactions of adults around them.
At The International Preschools, celebrating diversity and an awareness of how we are all different, yet we are all alike, is the cornerstone of our play-based learning philosophy. Children as young as age 2 are able to pick up on differences…and the acceptance and reactions of adults around them.
Books are an instrumental way to foster learning and to use as a springboard for discussions, in even our smallest students. Here are a few books, appropriate for preschoolers, that promote diversity in a tangible, understandable way. These books also celebrate traditions and everyday activities that look different, yet alike, in each family’s household.
At The International Preschools, celebrating diversity and an awareness of how we are all different, yet we are all alike, is the cornerstone of our play-based learning philosophy. Children as young as age 2 are able to pick up on differences…and the acceptance and reactions of adults around them.
