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2020.03.163学期修了式
本日は修了式を行いました。お子さま達は久しぶりの登園を待ち望んでいたようで、友達との話に花が咲き、縄跳びで元気に遊ぶ姿も見られるなど、短い時間でしたが再会を喜び、楽しんでいる様子でした。2クラスずつ修了式を行いましたが、久しぶりの幼稚園とは思えないほど静かに話を聞いていたお子さま達。とてもかっこよかったです!クラスに戻ると、1年間の取り組みが詰まった思い出ファイルや次年度に向けた手紙類などを紹介し、担任より最後の話をさせていただきました。どのクラスも、楽しいこともつらいことも、何事も諦めず、最後までやり切ってきたことで、できることがたくさん増えた1年間。次の1年も、もっと楽しいことがたくさん待っています!楽しみにしていてくださいね。保護者の皆様におかれましては、時差登園や送り迎え等、例年とは異なる方法での実施になったにもかかわらず、ご理解、ご協力を頂きまして誠にありがとうございました。簡素な式にはなってしまいましたが、お子さま達の元気な姿を久しぶりに見ることができ、教職員一同感謝しております。春休みでパワーをたくさん蓄えて、また4月に元気なお子さま達に会えることを楽しみにしております。 -
2020.03.15第55回 卒園証書授与式
Class 7 today graduated from the International Yamanote Kindergarten. Congratulations everyone! It is very unfortunate that we have missed the past 2 weeks of kindergarten, however we were all very pleased to see that all of the children were happy and healthy. All of the teachers here at IYK are extremely happy that we could hold today’s graduation ceremony and wish all of the newly graduated children the best of luck at the Elementary Schools. Congratulations once again and all the best in the future. Mr. Chris & Emi-sensei.ご卒園おめでとうございます。
Class 8は毎日とにかく元気で、個性豊かなクラスでした。そしていつもいろいろな楽しいお話を聞かせてくれ、笑顔をたくさんくれました。お子さま達との思い出は、話し出すときりがないほどたくさんありますが、年長組として一日一日を重ねるごとに根気強さや思いやりなど、心がどんどん育っていき、成長を感じるたびにとても嬉しかったです。小学校では、楽しいことだけでなく、乗り越えなければいけない辛いこと、難しいことも沢山あるかもしれません。でも、みんなならばどんなことでも乗り越えていけると信じています。たくさんの楽しい思い出をありがとうございます。素敵なお兄さん、お姉さんになってくださいね! なお先生ご卒園おめでとうございます。
Class 9は、友達思いで、笑顔がとっても素敵なクラスでした。たくさんの行事や毎日の活動を通して、友達と協力することや諦めずにがんばる気持ちなどたくさんの成長が見られ、とても嬉しかったです。今日の卒園式は、練習とは少し違ったけれど、みなさんの真剣な表情や、お話を聞く姿勢はとてもかっこよかったですよ。そんな9組さんは、きっと素敵なお姉さんお兄さんになるんだろうなと楽しみにしています。これからも、笑顔いっぱいのみなさんでいてくださいね。ずっとずっと応援しています。今までありがとうございました。 しおり先生 -
2020.02.26俳句発表会・Immersion Presentation and Switch Day
今日、5・6・8・9組は俳句発表会がありました。年中さんはあいうえお俳句、年長さんは5・7・5の俳句を発表してくれました。まずは年中さんの発表です。たくさんのあいうえお俳句をつくった中から1つ発表しました。元気いっぱいみんなで声を揃えて発表することができましたね。年長さんは季語を取り入れた俳句を発表してくれました。春が来る喜びや、卒園が近づく寂しさを5・7・5のリズムにのせて発表してくれました。年中さんは年長になったら俳句に挑戦します。年長さんは小学生になっても感じたことを俳句にしてみてくださいね。Today was Switch Day for Class 1 and 4, so the children had a different homeroom teacher for a day, giving them the chance to experience a different way of teaching, talking, and technique from another English teacher. Both classes started with exercise, calming, and Morning Meeting. In Class 1, the children learned about mixing colors and started working on a pinwheel craft. In Class 4, children learned about the Ojibwe people and their dream catchers, and the children then began a craft to make their own dream catchers. A little later, both classes paused their crafts for Immersion Presentations where Class 1 taught Class 4 a new dance, and Class 4 gave Class 1 a flag and character quiz. After that, Class 1 finished up their pinwheels and did some code-breaking to get their colors back from a polar bear, and Class 4 finished up their dream catchers, had a short conversation time about the scary things the dream catchers catch, and hung the dream catchers in the window. Lastly, Class 1 and 4 had lunch together. Both classes were very welcoming to their switch-day teachers, and they did a great job with the crafts and presentations. Thank you Class 1 and Class 4!
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2020.02.25Today’s Class 5
今日も朝から元気いっぱいに登園した5組のお子さま達。「3回のお休みでこんなことしたよ!」「楽しかったよ!」と嬉しそうにいろいろなお話を聞かせてくれましたよ。今日は4組さんと一緒にExerciseを行ったあと、クラスで年長さんにプレゼントをつくりました。「喜ばせたいから秘密にしよう!」と言いながら今までの感謝の気持ちを込めてプレゼントをつくるお子さま達。心を込めてつくったプレゼントは、とても素敵なものになりましたね!その後はみんなでナンバーゲームをしました。“42”など、書かれたカードを見て数字カードを組み合わせるお子さま達。「42は10が4個必要だね!」と考えながら、とても白熱したゲームになりましたね♪ランチの後は、ソフトブロックやかるたなど好きな遊びをして楽しみました。明日はみんなでつくった俳句を発表します。元気な5組さんに会えるのを楽しみにしています! -
2020.02.21Open English Class ~ Junior
Class 1
Today was a lot of fun for the children and teachers in Class 1. Our day started early, and Mommies and Daddies were waiting for us to arrive. The children pointed out our mail box, which had a letter from our Brazillian friends, Paolo and Fernanda. They told us that Carnival was today! Some of the English teachers wanted to go to Carnival to dance the Samba, but their dancing clothes were dirty and mixed together in the washing machine. We completed a phonics puzzle to open the washing machine and the children remembered how to dress with a song about getting dressed. Class 1 children could ask each other, “Where does is go?” “It goes on the head!” and tell where to put the clothes. Everyone helped the sad English teachers get their dancing clothes on. Once they got in their airplane, we realized that it needed samba power to fly. We all put on our samba crowns and danced together. After the teachers had flown away, the children then dancd with their Mommies and Daddies as well. The children had a lot of fun getting ready for today, and spoke lots of great English, as well as danced with great energy! Thank you to all of the parents and grandparents who came today!Class 2 and 3
We had so much fun in Classes 2 and 3! The children really enjoyed speaking English while making snowmen and dancing. They helped Mr. Snowman make snowmen friends! We were very impressed by the children’s speaking to ask one another “How are you?” When it came time to make snowmen, they could all say sizes like “big”, “medium”, and “small” and many children remembered locations such as “on the top”. Every child could speak in front of their classmates and say full sentences like “I have a hat.” We did the “Snowman Dance” and sang the “ABC Song” too! Thank you so much to the parents and family members who came today. We hope you could enjoy seeing your children communicating in English with confidence. The Junior children have made so much progress this year and have so much fun with English. Great job, everyone! See you next week. -
2020.02.20Open English Class ~ Intermediate
Class 4The children were very excited to take on the three challenges of Mrs. Thief and get the Class 4 alphabet treasure back. We warmed up with a quick English finger-play and I spy quiz from the teachers assistants. Next was the first challenge. This was singing an English song. Everyone could sing in a nice and clear voice and the first challenge was completed. The second challenge entailed children putting back three letter word puzzle cards back together and presenting them to the class. Everyone could read their three letter words very well in a big voice. The final challenge was the world quiz challenge. The children had to work in teams to put flag puzzles back together, assemble characters from different countries and identify the correct map. Everyone could do this very well and the children were successful with all of the quizzes. Class 4 could find a key for the magic machine and they were able to get all the treasure back and are well on their way to becoming Class 7! Well done Class 4!
Class 5 and Class 6For over a week, the children have been looking forward to visiting Queen Grandmother’s Clock and Watch Shop. However, Queen Grandmother was sick today, so the children worked together to open her shop for her! We started out by playing a matching game to make teams of shop helpers and delivery helpers. All the children were able to ask and answer “What do you have?” and “I have a/an [shape]” clearly and loudly. After that, the children used instruction cards from Queen Grandmother to place the clocks and watches they had made onto the shop shelves, asking each other “Where does it go?” and answering “It goes ____” with confidence. Finally, the children helped complete an ABC board by matching phonetic sounds to pictures and placing them on the ABC board. Today, the children did a wonderful job making teams, setting up Queen Grandmother’s shop, and completing the ABC board using phonics! It will be exciting to see them take on new English adventures as seniors! Great job, everyone!
2020.02.19Open English Class ~ Senior
Today was Open English Class day for the Seniors. In the morning, Class 7 invited their parents to watch their English Activity. We received 3 challenges from ‘i-Spy’, the first was a series of mazes. In pairs, the children had to navigate the hungry animals to the food using the commands, “Go forwards __ steps, turn left, turn right” etc. The next challenge was to put the sentences of the story Cinderella into the correct order. In their teams they did excellently reading and ordering the story. The next challenge was to play a card game about Endangered Animals, asking each other, “How endangered is it?” and “How many are left?” before defeating ‘i-Spy’ in a final round of the game. Everyone used lots of English and it was great to show all of the parents how much, how naturally and how enthusiastic the children speak English each day here at IYK. Thank you again to all of the parents that attended today.In today’s Open English Class, Class 8 were able to make delicious pizzas using lots of toppings, including broccoli, cheese, and sausage. To do this, they asked each other “Which toppings do you want?” and everyone took it in turns to say “I want __ and __, please.” I was very impressed to hear everyone saying “please”, “here you are”, and “thank you”. Class 8 also put slices of pizza into their pizza boxes and sent them to the nurse, pilot, teacher, fire fighter, farmer, and chef in a special delivery truck. To do so, they used English sentences such as “Where does he/she work?” and answered using the sentence “He/she works in the ___.” Everyone did their best to speak in a big voice. Well done, Class 8! I’d again like to thank all parents who took the time to come today.Class 9 worked very hard in today’s Open English Class. They completed a Phonics Challenge in groups to spell three-letter words in English. They wrote words such as ‘cat’, ‘bat’, ‘ten’, ‘pen’, and ‘dog’. They also used their spelling skills to write the secret five-letter password and unlock the fridge. Inside, we found lots of pizza toppings from our friend Giuseppe, including green peppers, mushrooms, and tomatoes. We made yummy pizzas by asking our friends “Which toppings do you want?”, and everyone was able to pick 2 toppings. We then carefully put our pizzas in the oven and, while we waited, we sang the ‘Pizza Song’ in a big voice: “There was a class at IYK, and they love yummy pizza!” We had lots of fun and everyone did such a good job, speaking and singing confidently. Good job, Class 9! Thank you again to all of the parents who took the time to join us today.2020.02.18Today’s Class 4
Today was a lot of fun in Class 4. First, we had a swimming lesson in the pool. It was great to see all the children trying their best to swim on their backs and everyone enjoyed the playtime at the end. After that we had a morning meeting followed by making birthday presents for three of our Class 4 friends. We also had a little bit of sketchbook and clay time followed by lunch time. Today’s lunch was the request lunch and the children could eat a lot of curry. After lunch we learned how to write some of the new three letter words. Playtime followed this and the children really enjoyed listening to the Hyogen Festival CD and dancing to all the songs again. All in all it was a great day in Class 4.2020.02.17Today’s Class3
「今日はラビットさんがお買い物に来てくれるんだよね!」と、プレスクールのお友達とのお買い物ごっこを楽しみに元気に登園してきた3組さん。「早く来てくれないかな~!」とお店屋さんのオープンを今か今かと心待ちにしていたお子さま達。今日は、お店屋さんの店員さんチームとラビットさんをエスコートするチームに分かれて、お買い物ごっこを楽しみました。「いらっしゃいませ~!!」「おいしい、アメリカンドックですよ~!」とお勧めするお子さま、「何味のジュースがいいですか~?」「クリームとサクランボがのったクリームソーダですよ~!」とお店の宣伝もバッチリ☆あっという間に品物は完売でした。一方、エスコートチームは、小さなお客さまの手をしっかり引き、「どのお店からにする?」「お金を渡すんだよ。」などど、優しく声をかけながら一緒にお買い物を楽しんでいました。進級を前に、一足早くお兄さん、お姉さん気分を味わうことができた、ラビットさんとのお買い物ごっこ。お子さま達、一人ひとりがちょっぴり頼もしく見えた一日になりました。明日はコアラクラスのお友達がお買い物に来てくれますよ♪みんなでお店屋さんになって楽しみましょうね☆2020.02.14Today’s Koala Class
Today in Koala Class we had outside play! The children enjoyed the snow even though it was a bit wet and not fluffy. They could enjoy sledding, digging, and making “cakes” with snow. After playtime in the snow we came back to the kindergarten and had morning meeting and lunch time. Everyone was very hungry! After lunch, the junior class children came to Koala Class. Next time we will join them for shopping, so they showed us the items they will sell and gave us money. Next time we have shopping and music. Let’s enjoy it and great job today, Koala Class!