Clothes

For the last weeks the friends at Lower Pre-Primary have been learning about clothes and it’s been quite a journey! Being winter, children have lots of work putting their own clothes on. Gloves, hats, scarfs, shoes, and jackets can be a tricky thing for our youngest friends! For this reason, it was a fascinating unit for them.

For our entry point, we wore our favourite clothes to school. We talked about why we like those clothes so much and carefully looked at each other’s clothes.

During this unit, we were able to see clothes from around the world and try some on. We learned that people are different and sometimes like to wear different clothes. Despite that, we learned that we still have a lot in common no matter what we wear!

Children leaned about weaving and even gave it a try themselves! We learned as well about why people wear clothes and explored the different types of fabrics there are. We connected clothes to the weather and the seasons. Here the children had to pack their own suitcases for either a summer holiday at the beach or a winter one at a snowy location.

We read ‘All bodies are cool’ and drew around ourselves on a big paper to later design clothes using paint and fabric. Sorting buttons, drawing with shapes made of felt, pairing socks and hanging clothes in a washing line were some of the other games we played during our unit.

Our role play area was broadened, and the children played out all sorts of stories. Children had the chance to wear many different clothes in the classroom. Sometimes that was a big challenge and a friend’s help was needed.

We had special celebration days in which we came to school wearing a pyjama, wearing blue clothes or wearing odd socks. We celebrated this special day together with our friends at Upper Pre-Primary. The last day before the holidays, we celebrated Carnival with the whole school!

Our exit point for this unit was making a tie-dye T-shirt. Each T-shirt is beautiful and unique, just like our wonderful children!