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IPS Classrooms: January-March 2021

Classes at The International Preschools resume on Tuesday, April 6th, after a two-week spring break. Before the final stretch to summer begins, please enjoy the following snapshots of our IPS students hard at work in our classrooms. Happy Spring!

  • Red Room Family!
  • Dancing with our friends…
  • Experimenting in Pre-K
  • Art
  • Multi-step art project
  • Harold and the Purple Crayon project
  • Ribbon Dance in honor of Lunar New Year
  • Art and Sensory Boxes
  • Circle Time
  • Spider webs in honor of Eric Carle
  • Bingo! in Junior Kindergarten
  • Block building
  • Art work sample
  • Whole group activity
  • Green 2 weather activity
  • Making Mat Man from our Handwriting Without Tears program
  • Board games
  • Snack time!
  • Sensory trays with “instant snow”
  • Collage art
  • We love our new masks!
  • Art work display
  • Magna-Tile masterpiece!
  • Movement in Green 1
  • Small group games in the Green Room
  • Rain experiment in Green 1
  • Scientists in Pre-K 1
  • Making a volcano in Pre-K
  • More volcano making…in another Pre-K class!
  • Blue week in the Red Room

Learn more about our play-based curriculum, read a letter from our director, or better yet, apply online for the 2021-2022 school year by visiting our website!

Red Room Color Units at IPS

The Red Room at 76th Street creates a paint/collage masterpiece in honor of Orange Week.

While our Green Rooms (3s), Pre-K Rooms (4s), and Junior K (4s/5s) are concentrating on their author and book studies, the Red Rooms (2s) are hard at work learning about colors! The children in the Red Room spend six to seven weeks throughout February and March learning about primary and secondary colors. Each week, a different color (red, yellow, blue, green, orange, and purple) is highlighted, with the seventh week being the “favorite color week” for the children.

Throughout the designated color week, children are invited to dress in clothing of that color. The children participate in a “show and share,” where they are asked to bring in an item from home in the color of the week. Art projects, games, books, and even snacks often highlight the specific color that the class is studying.

Scroll down for some photo examples of the Red Rooms’ color units…

The Red Room at 86th Street explores mixing yellow and blue paint to create the color green during their class’ Green Week.
At 76th Street, the Red Room children work on a “friendship finger painting,” where they work in pairs to mix yellow and blue paint, creating the color green, during their Green Week.
Red Room children at 86th Street are dressed in the color green for Green Week!
It’s “Green Week Show and Share” time at 76th Street in the Red Room!

The Red Room will focus on learning shapes in the coming weeks as well. Cheers to our littlest students for all of their hard work!

Interested in learning more about IPS curriculum? Take a peek inside of our classrooms by visiting our website.

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A Look Into The Classrooms at The International Preschools – Part 1

Our 45th Street and 86th Street locations are closed this week for spring break, and our 76th Street location will join them next week!  In lieu of our usual blog posts, here is a peek into the classrooms at The International Preschools during the months of February and March.  More photos to come!

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86-red-spray-paint 86-red-room-yellow-day 86-pre-k-2-outside

86-pre-k-2-cooking 86-prek-1-buying-tickets 86-jr-k-outside 86-jr-k-egg 86-green-2-handwriting 86-green-2-dramatic-play 86-green-1-yorkville-animal-hospital86-prek-1-q-train 86-green-1-bingo

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green-3-fun green-1-45-cooking gingerbread-housepink-flubber45-full-day-green-partyteeth-brushing

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United Nations Day: How We Celebrate at The International Preschools

Happy United Nations Day!  Our UN Day celebrations have been an annual tradition at The International Preschools since the founding of the school in 1963.  The themes of peace, friendship, and acceptance run through the 2s, 3s, Pre-K, and Junior K classes at all three locations during this time of year.   Here is a window into some of the classrooms for you to see the fun and various way students are preparing to celebrate this unique tradition.

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