Trick or treat! Today was the Halloween Party! We had so much spooky fun today. All of the children arrived in such wonderful costumes, and they were so proud to tell us what they were. Once everyone had arrived, we took turns taking pictures, playing games, eating Halloween lunch, and of course, trick or treating. Wanda the Witch had made some new ghost friends at her haunted house, but a big wind blew them away. All of the children went to different rooms to get the ghosts. In the Kitchen, Mr. Vampire had a quiz. In the Dining room, Mr. Zombie had a fun game where the children fed the zombies yucky brains. In the Bedroom, we helped Barry the Spider get energy to reach the ghost on the ceiling. And in the Garden, Mr. Jack-o’-lantern had a fun dance party to help a ghost hiding in a tree. Once everyone had helped four ghosts, we took them to the laundry room where Wanda the Witch was waiting. When all of the ghosts were together again, she was so happy that she gave presents to all of the children. We also brought home presents from the pinatas. We had such fun today. Thank you to all of the parents for such cool and cute costume ideas.
CURRENT EVENTS 2024.10
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2024.10.31Halloween Party!
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2024.10.30Today’s Class 7
Today in Class 7 we completed our final page in our numbers workbook, writing from 1-to-100!! We then completed our Morning Meeting and opened the last Halloween haunted house door before tomorrow’s Halloween Party!! The children were very excited for today’s main event…pinata! The Class 7 parents went to great efforts to make 3 amazing pinata boxes full of origami, shiny surprises and tickets to get presents at tomorrow’s party. Everyone had so much fun hitting the pinata boxes with children calling out, “I love pinata!” and “Pinata is so much fun!” Thank you everyone for a fun day (and thank you to all the IYK parents that helped make such cute, fun and cool pinata boxes for today!) -
2024.10.29October Birthday Party
Today was the Birthday Party for friends born in October. Once the whole kindergarten had assembled, it was time to call in the birthday friends. Everyone marched in very nicely and sat at the front of the room. All of the children could answer in a big voice to “What’s your name?” and “How old are you?” After singing the ‘Happy Birthday’ song, it was time to give presents to the birthday friends. After three cheers, everyone sat back down to watch the teacher’s play. Wanda the Witch and Felix the Cat were looking for a house. When they finally found one they liked, it was haunted by four ghosts. Luckily, Wanda is a witch, so she was not afraid of the ghosts, who just wanted some friends anyway. We all had a Monster Mash dance party until a big wind blew the ghosts away. Wanda asked everyone to help her find her ghost friends at the Halloween party later this week. This month’s party was lots of fun. Congratulations to all the October birthday friends! -
2024.10.28Today’s Class 5
Today in Class 5 we enjoyed English writing. We have been practising making new words with different sounds and today we focused on words with “et” in them. We tried very hard to write as nicely as we could! We are also getting really good at writing out own names in English without any help! After, we had a lot of fun making our new craft! It is a cute owl that we made from paper plates! We got to fold the plates and then painted them all sorts of colours, like orange, green and blue. Then, we cut out the eyes and beaks ready to stick on for later! We used a lot of glue and paint so it got a bit messy, but we were very good at cleaning up after. It has been a busy day and we tried our best! Well done Class 5! Keep up the great work! -
2024.10.25Immersion Day
Immersion Day was held today and we had a big shopping event. The Junior friends made pizzas and jumping frogs, the Intermediates made shiny medals and sushi, and the Seniors made yummy ice creams and glasses that they sold to each other today. All classes got together on either the first floor or second floor and everyone could enjoy being shopkeepers “Welcome to the ___ shop, what do you want?” whilst the customers bought 6 items each with their IYK money, “This one, please!” It was great to see the older children help their younger friends and everyone used such confident voices to buy and sell their items. Great job everyone! -
2024.10.24Today’s Class 4
Today in Class 4 it was an exciting, action-packed day! We started out the morning with a super fun English Activity. We could use all the family and Halloween themed vocabulary we learned this month to get some costumes and have a party with our Halloween friends. It was a little spooky, but we were all so brave and did a great job! Next we did some line work and did our best to write nice and neatly. We are getting so good at writing hiragana! After that we used our craft skills to make our own maracas! We could cut up the materials all by ourselves. When we were finished, we showed them off by having a Halloween music concert. For lunch we enjoyed making our own rice balls. It was super yummy as always. Tomorrow is Immersion day and Class 4 is super excited to show off the products we made and have fun shopping! -
2024.10.23Today’s Class 3
Class 3 had lots of fun today. As everyone arrived, we had Discovery Time until it was time to clean up. Today’s Teacher’s Assistants did a fantastic job leading the Morning and Goodbye Meetings. We checked on today’s monster in the haunted house, and also read the latest Halloween letter from Wanda the Witch. During ECT, many friends had fun telling the class what they would be for Halloween. Today was our first day to practice writing numbers. We did our best to hold our pencils correctly and wrote 1 and 2. Soon it was time for a yummy packed lunch. Soon after lunch, it was time to get ready to go home after a quick story book. Thanks for a fun day. See you tomorrow, everyone! -
2024.10.22Mushroom Cooking
今日の年長組は、きのこcookingを行いました。「いろいろなキノコがあるの知ってる?」「キノコって山にも生えているんだよ!」と友達と朝からきのこについての話をしながらcookingを楽しみにしていたお子さま達。秋の食材の代表でもある「きのこ」の栄養素を学んだ後、各グループに分かれて舞茸を手で裂きました。「不思議な匂いがする!」ときのこの特有の香りを感じたり、「これくらい小さくしたらジュニアさんでも食べられるかな?」と給食に自分たちが裂いたきのこが入ることを期待しながらcookingしていましたよ。全てのきのこを裂き終わると、美味しくなるように「Yummy !Yummy!Yummy!」と大きな声でおまじないをしました。実際にランチのお味噌汁の中に自分たちが裂いたきのこが入っているのを見ると、「これきっと僕が裂いた舞茸だ!」と喜ぶ姿が見られましたよ。「みんなでcookingしたきのこはいつもよりも美味しいね!」とお友達と会話をしながら、秋の味覚を存分に楽しんだ年長組でした。We started our day with Discovery time and got to play with many of our crafts from this month. We then got to make frisbees from paper plates. We did a great job cutting and folding the plates, and we finished our frisbees by decorating them with lots of shiny and spooky stickers. We got to go outside and practice throwing frisbees, and we really liked getting to see how far ours could be thrown. We got to learn about yummy mushrooms and how healthy they are, and we had tasty mushrooms for lunch. We ended the day with a fun Halloween book. Great job today everyone! -
2024.10.21Senior&Intermidiate
今日の年長組は、バスに乗り円山公園へ秋を探しにいきました。「今日は袋いっぱいどんぐりをたくさん拾うんだ!」「秋だからきっと葉っぱは赤か黄色になっているはずだよ!」と公園に行くことを楽しみにして登園してきたお子さま達。円山公園に着くと、まずは秋を探しに探検のスタートです!北海道神宮の正門から入り、神社の周辺を探検した後に円山公園の方まで降りていきました。「ここにリスの家があるはず!」「円山公園のどんぐりの木は下の公園にあるよね!」と友達に伝えたり、「このトンボはアキアカネだね!」と図鑑で学んだことを思い出して、さらに興味を高める姿が見られましたよ。どんぐりの木の下に着くと、たくさんのどんぐりが落ちており、「ヒビが入っていたら、虫がいるかもしれないから気を付けて!」と言いながら、袋いっぱいになるまでどんぐりを集めを楽しんでいました。秋の植物の色の変化や匂い、木の実など、夏から秋へのさまざまな違いに気づき、たくさんの秋を見つけられたお子さま達でした。年中組は、体育教室で、ボールや鉄棒を使った活動でした。まず最初のレベル1、ピーンと伸ばしたまま走りました。いつも手を曲げて走るので少しぎこちない走り方でしたが、お子さま達は笑顔!次にレベル2はピーンと伸ばした手を上にあげたまま走りました!そしてレベル3はボールを足に挟んでジャンプしながら進みます!途中でボールがピョンと飛び出てしまうお子さまがいたりしましたが、ゴールまでみんながんばりました。次のレベル4は鉄棒で前回りをした後に、ケンケンパをして、最後にキャチボールをしましたよ!そして最後のレベル5は爆弾ゲーム。みんなキャーキャー言いながらも逃げるだけではなく、しっかりボールをキャッチし相手目がけて投げていました!ボールを使って楽しんだお子さま達。お部屋でも今日の活動を取り入れながら、ボール、鉄棒に触れていきたいと思います。 -
2024.10.18Today’s Class 9
Today for class 9 we made some yummy looking ice cream cones. We made so many, I think it was around 60 ice cream cones. We drew some wonderful looking sea animals that were seen at Otaru Aquarium. I’m so impressed with how colorful they all came out. After all of those fun things, we finished with playing at the park. Perfect way to end a Friday school day. Let’s go Class 9!