Paying It Forward - A project towards Kindness “It’s not how much we give, but how much we put into giving!”Our first phase - a Food Donation Drive!Parents and children were encouraged to donate non-perishable food items. ...
Skool4Kidz Preschool @ Yishun Orchid Spring SSDB 2023 Collaboration With TOUCH Community Services (Yishun 436) As part of our SSDB Project theme on giving back to the community, our children worked together to grow vegetables through their hard work and shared them with our community ...
Love and Respect SSDB was introduced to children using the storybook “Becky’s Treasure Hunt.” The story gave children ideas how to show love and respect to their family members.Children were ...
Showing Love for our Daddies We had our Father’s day celebration, in which children created a card for their daddy to show their appreciation, love, and care. Children were excited to decorate their cards ...
Being Kind to others by Showing Respect After learning about different ways of showing kindness. N2 Children had their nature walk near the school. Children greeted “good morning”, “hello” and “hi” the people they ...
Let's Talk about Respect and Love Children were introduced to the meaning words ‘respect’ and ‘love’. This week, children discussed the word respect and shared ways on how to show respect. Children enjoyed the ...
Styrofoam Recycled holders Children explored with using scissors to cut out shapes to decorate their recycled holders. They used styrofoam paper and coloured paper to decorate it.
A Reflection on SSDB-Recycling Project SSDB project is coming to an end and children had completed creative crafts using various recycled materials. They did a reflection on the project and shared their thoughts ...
Jeans Sling Bag Children cut out pockets from old jeans. They then decorated the pockets with unused buttons. They showed creativity in decorating the pockets. Children were introduced to ...
Recycled holder The children are involved in decorating their own recycled holder using strings and pipe cleaner. The children get to practice their fine motor skills while decorating their ...
Holders out of Milk bottles Children continued making holders out of milk bottles. They covered it with cloth and design it with pebbles, pompoms, crepe paper and plastic leaves.
Our Holders out of Tissue rolls Children used tissue rolls to create their holders. They were able to decorate and used stickers, shells, yarn, small colour pencils and plastic flowers.
Exploring new varieties for recycling materials The K2 children collected used clothes donated by parents to recycle. They chose denim materials and used it to measure, cut, and attached it with fabric glue to form into ...
Exploring Variety of Recycled Materials Children were able to cut and roll old magazines to make paper beads as decorations. Children cut variety of materials to put on their recycled items. Children measured their ...
Crepe paper on recycled holders Children used crepe paper to crush and print onto the toilet roll and cardboard to create patterns on it. The children enjoyed the process of creating their holder and felt ...
Recycled Purses Children made use of cereal boxes and shampoo bottles to make small purses. They cut out cloth to cover them up and put some decorations in it using scraps of fabric, laces, ...
Creativeness in Making Coin boxes Children measured and cut fabric using ruler and scissor. They learn to enhance counting and measuring skills through the activity. Children use their creativeness in ...
Recycled holders Children made recycled holder using plastic bottles and pringles can. They used bottle caps and used cable ties to decorate their holder. The children enjoyed the process and ...
Recycling Jam K1 children were able to decorate their bags using variety of materials. Children used pipe cleaners, used buttons from clothes and markers to design their recyclable items. ...
Decorating Coinbanks Children were innovative in creating the coinbanks. They attached fabric, old buttons and straws to the coinbanks. They showed great teamwork by discussing the ideas they had ...
Recycled holders Children are involved in creating their own holder using pringles can and toilet roll. They used styrofoam net, clothes and ice cream sticks to decorate their holder. It makes ...
Our Recycled Holder Children used variety of art materials such as popsicles sticks, sequins, bottle cups, buttons and different kinds of beans for their holder. They were well-engaged and had ...
Recycled holders using plastic bottles and metal can Children used different kinds of expired beans/seeds (red bean, corn, broad beans) on the recycled holder. They also explored on pasting spoilt clip on the plastic bottle ...
Collaborative Drawing - Recycling Children did a collaborative drawing on their SSDB project. They talked about the importance of recycling and how it can make a change to the community. Children cut out ...
Let's have fun Children continued to create a holder using recycled materials. They used cardboards and tissue roll. Children were able to decorate their holder by painting, pasting small ...
Recycled Pencil Cases K1B class started working on their pencil cases by cutting plastic bottles and fabrics along the marked lines. They pasted both together to start forming their product.They ...
Recycled holder Children created their holder using boxes and recycled plastic containers. They used magazines cut outs and coloured papers decorate their own holder. They learnt how to make ...
Our Recycling Journey Continues K1 A children continued their project by stringing beads for their strap. The children helped each other in measuring the length and cutting the string to finish their ...
Creating Coinbanks Encouraging children to recycle is a fun way to teach children to be more creative and to understand the importance of recycling. After planning on how to reuse the recycled ...
Recycled holder Children created their own holder using the recycled materials. They create rolled magazines, magazine flowers using the stamp and cereal boxes cut outs to use as decoration ...
Reflection on SSDB Project Children did a reflection on their SSDB project and recorded it down on their reflection journal. Children were able to describe what they have done such as ‘I cleaned the ...
Our Recycling Journey The children are starting to make their pouches from shampoo bottles. They removed the cover and the plastic label for each bottle.The children marked their bottles and the ...
Noting down on their book what they learnt about The children used their start small dream big to paste what they learnt about recycling today. The children chose their own posters and happily presented their own poster to ...
Gearing Up for SSDB Project The children draw their own wallet design in their SSDB booklet. They shared their work to their peers and gave good comments about their peer’s work too.The children also ...
Recycled Materials Children were engaged in looking for recycled materials inside the classroom. They were able to name and count the mateials they collected. After they collected the recycled ...
Recycled Holder Our activity is to create a recycled holder using empty bottle. Children had fun in decorating the empty bottle using recycled materials such as plastic straw, egg carton and ...
Implementation of 3Rs in SSDB Project As part of Start Small Dream Big project, the K2 children built creativity and improved their problem-solving skills by sharing and discussing how to decorate their coin banks ...
Washing Up! K1B children started preparing for their project with the use of recycled bottles. They peeled out labels from bottles and made sure they are clean by rinsing them with water ...
Cleaning Our Recyclables The children from K1 class brought their recyclable materials from home. The children gathered and shared their recycled materials with their peers. The children shared where ...
Sorting recycled items and create recycled decorations In this week of recycling week, we are focused on sorting the recycled materials and create recycled decorations to use to make our recycled items.The children are involved in ...
Love for the Earth! K1B children made a poster showing their love for earth. They cut out recycled magazine to form the earth and talked about how to show care for the world we live...
Monster Recycling Bins K2 children created a draft of their recycling bins. Tasks were distributed amongst all children in the setting up the recycling bins. In the process , they learnt to ...
Let's Create Our Recycling Bins! Children were done introducing to different types of recycling materials and they started making recycling bins. Their parents contributed boxes and children took turns to ...
Start Small Dream Big (Nursery 2B) @ YSOS Skool4kidz In this “Start Small Dream Big” project, the Nursery class are focused on the project of recycling, to understand how they can protect and save the earth with their own ...
Recycling project start (Nursery 2B) @ YSOS Skool4kidz In this project the children came to understand how to use recycled materials to make different types of holders. They started gathering nice pictures they found on cereal ...
Introduction to 'Start Small Dream Big' Project K2 children were introduced to SSDB which stands for Start Small Dream Big. They wondered the purpose of the project and teacher showed them examples of what other children ...
Launching SSDB: What is Recycling? The K1 children discovered the importance of recycling by knowing the things that can be reused. The children sorted out the materials found inside the bin into 4 categories: ...
Ready to Recycle! The children recalled the materials that can be recycled during the second week of our recycling journey.The teacher showed products from recycled materials. The children were ...
Recycle N2 children learnt different ways how to take care the Earth. We focused on the importance of “recycling”. Teacher explained the meaning of RRR and the recycling symbol to the ...
Recycling Bins Children were engaged in decorating our recycling bins for our school. They showed creativity and teamwork in sharing their ideas on how to make the bins attractive. This ...
SSDB launching through Recycling The class of Knowledge Builders were introduced to the SSDB project by letting them understand the concept of recycling! They have also learned to sort them out accordingly ...
Our Recycling Project! For this week, the SSDB project was introduced to the children including the materials and process that we will be doing for the next few weeks!They have also started out on ...
Lantern Making As the Mid Autumn Festival is approaching, the children created lanterns to celebrate the festival. Small acts of kindness were observed among the children as they helped one ...
The Traffic Lights Children learnt about traffic lights; pretending to be a driver; enhance on their spatial awareness as they “drives” around before the traffic light turn color.So much joy, ...
Importance of Gratitude This week, the children were introduced to the importance of showing gratitude to the people around them. This was done through sharing a newspaper article with the children. ...
OFO Bicycle Skool4kidz@ Yishun Orchid Spring Children experienced to ride a bicycle and waited for their turn. They enjoyed the activity and learnt how to take care of their friends by helping and guiding in using the ...
Bus Stop Skool4kidz@Yishun Orchid Spring Children are excited to see different kinds of vehicles on the road. They experienced to go at the bus stop. And we noticed that the bus stop is dirty, so we decided to clean ...
Follow the Traffic Lights We all know that traffic imlight is very useful to organize the flow of traffic and avoid road accidents but it’s also not new that we heard news about beating this simple ...
Kindness board game In the previous week, the teacher discussed with K2 children the various ways to show kindness to people in need and they created drawings to show ways to help other people. ...
Boarding in the MRT @Skool4kidz Yishun Orchid Spring Children were engaged in pretend play wherein they will show how to kindly board and alight the MRT train.Before the activity, I decided to paint and do a mini MRT train for ...
Magic Words Skool4kidz@Yishun Orchid Spring Children learnt about magic words. They were able to understand saying and using magic words all the time to others.Children were given different scenarios which they used ...
Traffic light Skool4kidz@Yishun Orchid Children had a lesson about traffic lights. In this lesson, children learnt basic and safety rules on the road, meaning of each colour and the importance of following traffic ...
Showing kindness to others who are in need This week, the teacher shared an article with the children. The article emphasised on a pilot programme that was launched by NTUC Foodfare to encourage the public to donate ...
Inside the MRT! We had our story telling by reading the book “Mindy’s First MRT Adventure”. The objective of this story telling is let them recognize and name some rules and regulation when ...
Give everyone a chance to play Leaving children a limited number of SSDB hats and encourage children to take turn.As one group were having their pretend play. Another group waited patiently. Once done, the ...
Love the environment In this activity, children create their own beautiful and colourful butterfly. We talked about keeping environment clean, being nice to the plants and flowers in the garden ...
Growing Empathy - Learning About Reserved Seats Skool4kidz @Yishun Orchid Spring Reserved seats are one of those signages that we can see in public transport like MRT, LRT and bus. In this activity, this sign was explained to children and also its ...
> A better ride for everyone During a field trip, the children displayed appropriate gracious behaviour such as fastening their seatbelts, remaining seated during the journey, queuing up to board the bus ...
Making friends Skool4kidz@Yishun Orchid Spring This scenario shows kindness in asking his friend’s feeling. When he knew the reason, he immediately invite his friend to play with him and to feel better. He had shown his ...
Kindness On Board Skool4kidz @Yishun Orchid Spring Students from Skool4kidz @Yishun Orchid Spring was engaged in dramatic play wherein they were given the most common setting in a bus everyday.Before the play starts, they were ...
All about the Reserved Seats Children learnt about the Reserved seats and the images that’s commonly displayed in train and buses near the priority seats.Children also get to dramatized and pretend to be ...
Kindness On Board @ Skool4kidz Yishun Orchid Spring During this activity, children discussed about the everday situation when going on board the bus. Children mentioned that there are people who are in need of seats such as the ...
Gracious Behaviour on MRT Children were intrigued by the gracious behaviour of Thoughtful Characters Move-in Martin, Bag-down Benny, Hush-hush Hannah, Give-way Glenda and Stand-up Stacey.They described ...
We help each other Skool4kidz@Yishun Orchid Spring Children were able to show simple act of kindness by helping in packing up the toys with their friends.
The Magic Words Children are taught about using magic words and here they are penning it down on their hand cut outs. Children choose what are the magic words they would like to write on the ...
Find Space and Give Space Skool4kidz @Yishun Orchid Spring We all know that finding and giving space to every one who’s boarding the bus or MRT is already a simple act of kindness. We had a simple game in which they are group into...
Kindness On Board Start Small Dream BigSkool4kidz @ Yishun Orchid SpringChildren did a dramatization about the “The Hungry Bear.” This is a wonderful opportunity for children to express ...
