Thank you parents and guardians for all of your support for our K1s throughout this year. We appreciate you!
We would like to take some time to share a photo review for you so we can see all our amazing K1s learned and accomplished this year. We explored three major themes this year- PLANTS, INSECTS & BUGS and EARTH SAVING. We will post them as a 3-part series. Our Theme Projects were decided on by the students, which greatly motivated them to learn more month by month. Please enjoy and please praise your child for a job well done this year!
Part 2- INSECTS & BUGS「昆虫（虫）」
For this Theme Project we caught and observed live insects, focused on that what Insects are, what is the difference between an Insect and a Bug, learned which are safe and which are dangerous, etc. We even cared for our class pet, Lucky, a rare yellow praying mantis and MORE!
この時のテーマでは、昆虫とは何か、昆虫と虫との違いは何か、安全な虫や危険な虫は何か…などに焦点を当て、身近にいる生きている虫を捕まえて観察しました。また、珍しい黄色のカマキリを「ラッキー」と名付け、大事に大事に育てることにしました。
Learning about Insects’ bodies and catching Insects around our Kinder Playground.
We learned about safe and dangerous Insects. K1s learned this new vocabulary and it all throughout the year.
安全な虫、危険な虫について学びました。子どもたちは覚えた新しい言葉を、その後もよく口にしました。
K1s combined their Phonics skills and their Insects knowledge to enjoy an ABC Insect & Bugs Treasure Hunt. Afterward they made artwork about the Insects they found. They learned new phrases like “L is for ladybug.”
フォニックスで学んだことや虫についての知識を合わせ、虫探しを楽しみました。その後は見つけた虫の作品作りをし、「〇 is for 〇〇.」といった新たなフレーズも覚えました。「L is for ladybug.」
We enjoyed a special The Very Hungry Caterpillar felt apron theater time. From this we started learning about the butterfly life cycle.
はらぺこあおむしのエプロンシアターを楽しみました。ここから、蝶々のライフサイクルの学びが始まりました。
We welcomed Lucky, to our K1 family and took care of her for one month. We learned about what praying mantis’ like to eat, how often the eat, how to feed her, how to clean Lucky’s cage and More!
K1にカマキリのラッキーを迎えてから1か月間、一生懸命子どもたちはお世話をしました。カマキリはどんな食べ物が好きなのか、どれくらい食べるのか、どんな風にあげたらいいのか、虫かごの掃除はどうするか…など、たくさんの疑問が学びへとつながりました。
After learning a lot about Insects & Bugs and taking care of Lucky, it was time to finish our project and let Lucky go back to the forest. Thank you, Lucky, for helping us to learn so much about the small world of insects and bugs!
虫についての学びやラッキーのお世話の後、虫をテーマにした学びは終わりとなり、ラッキーを森に帰す時がやってきました。小さな小さな虫たちの住む世界でも、知らないことはまだまだたくさん！そんな小さな世界をＫ１の子どもたちが知るために、いっぱいお手伝いをしてくれたラッキー、ありがとう！また会えるといいね。
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