CURRENT EVENTS 2023

• 2023.06.05Today’s Class 3

  

  We had lots of fun in Class 3 today! In our Physical Time, we all pretended to be different kinds of animals. We hopped across a mat like frogs, jumped through some hoops like rabbits, crawled across another mat like bears, and walk across balance bars like butterflies. Class 3 loves to imitate animals! We also went to Kitakaze Park today. Class 3 friends love to run around playfully and explore little findings such as sticks or bugs. For today’s main activity, we finished our Father’s Day craft. Class 3 really enjoyed using sponge sticks to paint the mugs for their daddys!

• 2023.06.02Elephant Class Zoo Trip

  

  Elephant Class went to Maruyama Zoo and we had so much fun with children and parents. Thank you to everyone for coming today on our adventure. The children did such a great job walking around the zoo and finding animals on our sticker rally card. They saw monkeys, lesser pandas, elephants, giraffes, and more. They could all say “Sticker please” and we saw lots of happy faces. Well done, children. We’re so happy!

• 2023.06.01Elephant Class Zoo Trip

  

  The Elephant Class children and parents went to Maruyama Zoo today. We all had so much fun and it was such a beautiful, sunny day. We could see many animals while doing a sticker rally. We saw monkeys, lesser pandas, elephants, giraffes, and more. The children could all say animal names and “sticker please.” Everyone did such a good job walking and exploring the zoo together. Thank you mommies and daddies for coming today and supporting your children during our adventure to the zoo. We all had such a wonderful time!

• 2023.05.31Today’s Class 2

  

  Class 2 had a great day today! It was a short day, but we managed to fit in lots of fun activities. Once many friends had arrived, we got our hats on and headed to Kitakaze Park. The children marched very nicely and could play with friends from all grades. Everyone had fun running around and picking flowers. When we got back it was time to do Morning Meeting and Phonics Time. Today we tried out the ‘Big Voice Stage’ and many friends could say the vocabulary words with a nice big voice. Lastly, we got out the mats and everyone moved like rabbits, bears and seals down the mats and hit the tambourine with a big high five. Before we knew it, it was time to clean up and go home. We had lots of fun today, and look forward to seeing everyone again tomorrow!

• 2023.05.30さとらんど

  

  今日の年長組はみんなでバスに乗りさとらんどへ行き、サツマイモの苗を植えてきました。バスの中ではクイズや、絵本でサツマイモのことや、園庭に植えたジャガイモとの違いについて知り「早くサツマイモを植えたいな！」と楽しみにしながらさとらんどへ向かいました。さとらんどでは、葉の方向や、土の被せ方を教えていただき、丁寧に苗を植えていましたよ。普段なかなか触らない畑の土にたくさん触れ、感触を楽しんでいました。最後には、”Grow!Grow!Grow!”と大きく育つようにパワーを送ってきました。帰りのバスでは、「早く秋にならないかなあ」とすでに収穫を楽しみにしているお子さま達でした！

• 2023.05.29Birthday party

  

  今日は5月生まれのBirthday partyでした。ニコニコの笑顔で楽しそうに、ピアノの曲に合わせて入場してきたお子さま達。”What’s your name?”の質問に大きな声で元気に名前を答えたり、少し緊張した様子で答える様子もありました。”How old are you?”の質問には自分の年齢を指で表しながら答えていましたよ。全園児の手拍子に合わせた大きい歌声のBirthday songでは誕生児一人ひとりの名前が呼ばれ、嬉しそうにする姿が見られました。最後はクラスの友達からのBirthdayボードと自分の手形の入ったBirthdayカードを嬉しそうに受け取っていたBirthdayのお子さま達。そして今月の先生達からのプレゼント劇は”Let’s make specialcake!”。うさぎと犬と一緒にケーキの材料のクイズを解きました。劇中ではより美味しいケーキができるように、”Hot Potato”を歌いましたよ。普段からこの曲が大好きなお子さま達が多く、大きな声で歌ったり楽しそうに踊る姿が見られました。インターナショナル山の手幼稚園みんなの上手な歌のおかげで、最後には美味しそうな大きなケーキができました！

• 2023.05.26避難訓練

  

  　今日は今年度初めての避難訓練が行われました。クラスで火事の恐ろしさや命の危険について考え、火事が起きた時にはどのように逃げたらよいのかを学んでから訓練に参加しました。避難訓練の大切さを実感したお子さま達は真剣に参加し、素早く園庭に逃げることができていました。みんなが園庭に集まってから、『お・は・し・も』の約束について再確認すると、「“お”は押さないだよ！押したら転んだりして危ないから！」など、特に年長組のお子さまが率先して発言してくれ、避難する際の大事なポイントをしっかり理解できていました。万が一のことに備えて自分達の身を守れるように、次回の避難訓練もみんなで真剣に取り組んでいきましょうね！

• 2023.05.25Today’s Elephant Class

  

  Elephant Class had so much fun today. We started the day with the children trying to play separate from parents. Everyone did such a great job and tried very hard. Some friends were nervous or shy but they could play and even do our morning meeting by themselves. We had many friends dancing during today’s exercise too. After the parents joined the children we had physical time. The parents and children did a balloon relay and had lots of fun passing the balloons. They were so colorful and we had so much fun with “red”, “yellow”, “blue”, “green” and more balloons. Great job everyone and see you next week!

• 2023.05.24Today’s Class 1

  

  Today in Class 1 we had a lot of fun! Right after we arrived at the kindergarten, we went to Kitakaze Park where we had lots of fun running around, looking at bugs and exploring! Then we came back to the kindergarten and practiced standing up on the Class 1 stage and using our super big voices to say phonics. During ECT time, we talked to each other and learned what breakfast foods our friends like and don’t like. Then we climbed up over a big mountain and carefully crossed a bridge of balance beams during physical time! Today was a short day, so after reading a book together it was soon time to say “See you!” but we’ll have lots more fun tomorrow!

• 2023.05.23Today’s Elephant Class

  

  Today’s Elephant Class was such a special day. The children got to play in the sand box and help plant tomatoes! Everyone took turns helping plant the tomato seedlings. They could touch the plants, cover the roots with soil, and say “grow, grow, grow” to help. Great job today everyone. Please remember to check the tomato plants before you go home each day and you can help us water them too. They can get bigger and bigger and in autumn we can eat the yummy, red tomatoes we will pick from them. See you on Friday!