TAZ Horgen Bilingual Day School

The Advent singing is one of our anual highlights for children, parents and the TAZ team!

Santa Claus and his "Schmutzli" visited us. They came all the way from the deep, but unfortunately not very snowy forest.
They visited all three Kindergarten classes and praised the children for being so good. He only wishes an improovement at sitting still and raising hands before talking. 

All classes, even the grade 5 and 6, had prepared songs for him. Santa brought a typical Swiss bread called "Gritibenz" for all the TAZ children. The result was many cheerful childrens faces.

 

Grades 5 and 6 had their first class trip in September, with a 2-day visit to the Ballenberg open-air museum and an overnight stay at the youth hostel in Brienz. The weather was glorious and we learnt a lot about Swiss life and culture. We also had a great evening of star-gazing on the beach by the hostel.

In art class our “me and you” theme revolved around self expression.
During the first lesson the children perceived their faces and created a self portrait using crayons and taking a glance in the mirror every once in a while.
For the following lesson the children ripped and glued pieces of paper to re-create their self- portraits.
 

"King Midas and the Golden Touch"

With the support of the class teachers and Mrs Mamis, the drama teacher, the students created their own play based on ancient Greek Mythology. They investigated various aspects of the myth through text, character, movement and song. 

It was a great performance!

Last week, Grade 5 & 6 travelled to Beinwil am See for our class camp. The youth hostel, where we stayed, was right on the shores of the beautiful Hallwilersee. We had a very full week of water activities (swimming, canoe tour, pedalo); natures studies (Hallwiler Wald, Wildpark Roggenhausen) and medieval experiences (Schloss Halwyl).

On June 16th the TAZ children returned tired but happy from the school trip. The place where everybody met for lunch was perfect to grill sausages and play in the woods. Each class created a big letter on the ground with natural materials from the woods. In the end we could read the words: TAZ Horgen.
 

Pre-KG, KG1 and KG2 performed on the big stage in the gym hall the theatre play: the 3 little pigs.

The Three Little Pigs is an English fairy tale about three pigs being sent out into the world by their mother.

The first little pig builds a house of straw, but the big bad wolf blows it down.  The second pig builds a house of sticks, but with the same result. The third pig, being older and wiser, builds a house of bricks. The wolf is unable to blow the house down; the pig outsmarts him and the wolf gets his just reward.