Today we had some new friends visiting us and we greeted them warmly and said “Hello!”. Also we had some interesting guests – Daddy shark and Mommy shark. They were so sad because they lost their babies. We helped them to look for the babies and found them… In the pool! We brought all the baby sharks back to their mommy and daddy and had a lot of fun playing in the pool. Then we danced a fun “Baby shark” dance. We also learned a new feeling today: “sleepy”. But we are not sleepy! We are happy today. Then we got hungry and had some lunch. We can prepare the lunch mat by ourselves, wash our hands and put on our smokes. We wait patiently for everyone and eat nicely. Great job today, elephant friends! See you next week!
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2024.10.02
Today in Class 8, we had a short day but a fun day! We met our first character in Wanda the Witch’s haunted house door. It was a robot and looked like the robots we drew and painted yesterday in class! We learned about our new World Lunch country – Spain! Everyone did well learning greetings in Spanish, and we are all really excited for the world lunch so we can eat churros! Today was our last day for our group activity. Everyone did a great job with the unicycle, stilts, and jump rope. We also had Hiragana work and fun playing with our friends! Great job today everyone!
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2024.10.01Today’s Class 7
Today in Class 7 we received a letter from Wanda the witch, who taught us how to use her haunted house door and countdown calendar to the IYK Halloween Party! We then went to Kitakaze Park to take our Senior Graduation class photos. We then started our 0~100 numbers book, before making jack `o-lantern’s with origami paper, glue and cutting eyes, nose, mouth and a leaf. Fantastic job today everyone!
2024.09.30September Birthday party
今日は9月生まれのお友達の誕生会でした。緊張しながらも笑顔で登場し、名前や年齢に答えるインタビューも嬉しそうに答えていました。誕生日の歌をうたったり、友達から誕生日プレゼンをもらって大喜びでした。教師の出し物はパネルシアターの“すてきな帽子屋さん”というお話で、楽しい歌に合わせて帽子屋さんのおじさんが色々な森の動物達に帽子を選ぶというお話でした。
2024.09.26Today’s Class 6
Today was a very fun and easy day for Class 6! We started the day with some fun songs before our Morning Meeting. After that, we drew pictures on the Scissors Craft we had started yesterday. Then we had a special Name-Writing Challenge where we wrote our names in Hiragana and in English! We played with our clay or sketchbook for a little bit when we finished writing our names. We had extra time, so we sang some silly songs while waiting for our lunch. Today was the Italy World Lunch! It was so delicious! We had a long Discovery Time, and then we did an English Activity. Today’s English Activity was fun because we had to look under many rocks to find baby animals. Sometimes we found trash instead and had to throw it away! Next, we played Handbells together; we sounded really good today! Then we did Phonics and the Goodbye Meeting. Finally, we went to Kitakaze Park! We had such a great time at IYK today! See you on Monday!
2024.09.25Today’s Class 5
Today in Class 5 we spent the morning in Kitakaze park! It is a lot cooler outside now and the wind was blowing a lot. Some of us had to wrap up to keep warm! We ran and played so much and had lots of fun! Then, we went back inside and practiced writing our full names in Hiragana. We are getting very good at writing our own names now! After that, we finished our scissor craft. We have been cutting out circles to make soap bubbles and gluing them to paper. We then coloured the bubbles in and added drawings to the paper with crayons. Class 5 has been making lots of progress this term and can’t wait to keep learning and having fun! Well done Class 5!
2024.09.24Today’s Class 4
Today in Class 4 we had so much fun with a variety of activities! Now that it is autumn, we made sure to enjoy the cooler weather at Kitakaze Park. Soon we will be able to see the change in seasons. After the park, we did a fantastic job helping sea animals for our English Activity! We could say what sea animals we found in the dirty tank before we rescued them and put them in clean water. Everyone made sure to throw away all the trash we found. We impressed our teachers by using “a” and “an” correctly and naming all the sea animals. Last we worked hard practicing our scissor skills to cut out lots of circles to make bubbles. They look so cool so far! Class 4 has really leveled up– way to go! We are all excited to finish our scissor craft tomorrow!
2024.09.20Today’s Elephant class
Today we had a special guest coming to the kindergarten. Her name is Ms. Vegetable. She brought us a lot of vegetables and let us touch, smell and cut them! We made colorful stamps to see what shape they are. After lunch, we had even more guests. Class 4 friends came to play with us. It was so fun! We played together and shared our toys. And then we cleaned up all together. We also danced our favorite animal dance and reviewed pet’s names. We can say them well now and know what sound each animal makes. Let’s have even more fun next week!
2024.09.19Today’s Elephant class
September is the time to harvest some vegetables. We have already planted some tomatoes and ate a lot of vegetable dishes, but what so they look like inside? We have figured it out today! First, we touched and smelled some vegetables and tried to guess what they are. Then we cut them and turned them into cool vegetable stamps! Watch us stamp with colorful paint. It was the first day for us to try and wait for our mommies patiently while reading books and doing some fingerplay. We did a great job! Everyone was waiting patiently and changed shoes by themselves. See you next week, Elephant friends!
2024.09.18Today’s Bear class
We had a lot of fun in the Bear class today! We started singing a new song – ABC song, to help us learn the letters. We reviewed the names of animals by putting them on the whiteboard. Some animal cards were so dirty! We washed them together with mommies to see what animal is hiding under the paint. We also enjoyed our September song – “I have a pet” and red an exciting book about many farm animals. Great job today!