K1 had swimming lessons last Thursday and today at Gushikawa Swimming School.
We had a good time in the water:)
We are looking forward to coming to have swimming lessons next year!!
Bus Orientation- After our swimming lesson yesterday students had a bus orientation to understand how to behave in the bus during an emergency and how to leave the bus/ evacuate safely. We look forward to having several fun and safe field trips using our Amicus busses.
This week we started our K1 Helper Jobs. K1s will now start taking on more responsibilities around in our classroom. Students will help in many roles like helping teachers, teaching the date, the daily schedule, the weather, cleaning up after eating times, composting, changing our classroom books, etc. Please encourage your child to be helpful with things at home, too. They are growing, growing, growing!
今月から、「クラスジョブ」が始まりました。１週間単位で、決められた「ジョブ（役割）」に取り組んでいきます。頑張れ、K1フレンズ♪
We enjoyed our first field trip to Gushikawa Swimming Pool. K1s had a great time in the water. They are excited to go again next week!
初めての水泳教室！入水までは緊張した様子でしたが、最後にはみんな笑顔です☺
After our first swimming lesson, we were hungry!!!
水泳教室の後は、腹ペコの子どもたち。音楽を流してカフェスタイルで優雅なランチをいただきました。いつもより時間をかけながら、ゆっくり美味しい昼食を味わっていました：）
Good Job, K1 friends!!
Today, our friends wore an outfit of their favorite color. We made 5 teams and did a COLOR HUNT around AMICUS.
Blue Team
Colorful and White Team
Green and Black Team
Pink and Purple Team
Red, Orange and Yellow Team
Everyone did a great job!
It was a wonderful COLORFUL DAY indeed!😄
明日、4月21日木曜日は今年度最初の体育を行います。PEユニフォームを着て登園することをお忘れにならないようお願いいたします。着替え（グレーシャツ、ブルーショーツ）も忘れずにお願いいたします。
Tomorrow, April 21, 2022 will be our first P.E. day. Please don’t forget to let your child wear your P.E. uniform tomorrow. Please bring extra clothes (AMICUS gray t-shirt and blue pants) as well.
Thank you and we are looking forward to have fun and energy-filled Physical Education activities with our Kinder friends.
WELCOME AGAIN TO AMICUS KINDERGARTEN, K1!
Our week has been a great, busy week. We teachers are learning all of our new K1s’ names and faces and personalities. Yes, there was some crying, but there was a lot of smiling and laughing throughout this week, too. We would like to share some of this week’s pictures with you. Please enjoy!
Coming to school…
Snack Time/ Lunch Time
Circle Time
Kinder Tour
Reading Time
Stations Time (free play)
Story Time- We read a book about “poop”. It was very interesting for K1s. With the book we learned about horses poop so we check our AMICUS horses to see what their poop looks like. Many friends are interested in horses and enjoyed watching our special animals.
Circle Time Team-building Activity- Brown Bear puzzle
AMICUS School Tour- K1s learned a lot about our campus. We also enjoyed playing outside in the beautiful weather.
Outside play
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 3- EARTH SAVERS!「アースセイバー」
For our final Theme Project of K1 we focused on learning about the SDGs- Sustainable Development Goals. Our first Earth Saver challenge was to eat all our lunch every day and not waste precious food. It became our Perori Challenge!
K1での最後の取り組みとして、SDGs（持続可能な開発目標）について学びました。アースセイバー（地球を守る人）としての最初の挑戦は、大切な食べ物を無駄にしないで、毎日お弁当をすべて食べきるということでした。それは後々、「ペロリチャレンジ」と呼ばれるようになりました。
K1s became interested in becoming Earth Savers in more ways all the time. Once they understood the importance of not wasting and of throwing away garbage properly they quickly moved on to thinking about the importance of pick up garbage around them. So we started taking regular walks around AMICUS to pick up garbage to clean up.
K1の子どもたちは、常に様々な方法でアースセイバーになることに興味を持ち始めました。物を無駄にしないことやごみを正しく捨てるということについて理解すると、子どもたちの頭は「身近なごみを拾おう」ということに繋がりました。そこで、日ごろの学内散歩でもゴミ拾いをすることになりました。
Since we had to learn what to do with the garbage we picked up we spent many Activity Time lessons learning about sorting garbage and what happens to our garbage when we throw it away. It was so interesting!
拾ったごみをどうすればいいのか、子どもたちには考える機会が与えられました。そして、ごみを分別することや、自分たちの捨てたごみがその後どうなっていくのかなど、たくさんの活動を通してゴミについて学びました。子どもたちにとって、とても興味深かったようです。
K1s learned to identify and sort “burnable”, “non-burnable”, and “compost” garbage. We were able to use what we learned about garbage in our Kinder Performance Day video as well.
「もやせるごみ」「もやせないごみ」「堆肥になるごみ」があるということを知りました。パフォーマンスビデオを作るにあたり、自分たちの学び生かすことができました。
Because K1s enjoyed being Earth Savers so much they were super motivated to share what they learned with the rest of AMICUS. They thought the best way to teach about SDGs was to make posters and post them around the school for everyone to see. They made groups and decided of what SDG to teach AMICUS. We took a walk to see how effective posters are at teaching information. K1s took photos of interesting posters and thought about how they could make their posters interesting, too.
アースセイバーであること楽しんだK1の子どもたちは自分たちの学んだことを他のアミークスの人たちみんなにシェアすることに意欲を燃やしていました。SDGsについて伝えるのに一番良い方法は、学校のあちらこちらにポスターを貼ってみてもらうことだと考えました。子どもたちはグループを作り、どの項目についてのポスターを作るか、それぞれが決めました。まず、どのようなポスターがより効果的に情報を伝えられるのか、学内を歩きながら見て回りました。興味を持ったポスターの写真を撮り、興味を持ってもらえそうなポスターはどうしたら作れるのかを考えました。
We looked around the school for the best place to post our posters. Then we got Mr. Dakin’s permission to post our posters. K1s were so excited for the whole school to see their hard work.
自分たちのポスターを貼るのに一番いいところはどこか探し、ミスターデイキンからポスター掲示の許可をもらいました。アミークスのみんなに自分たちが頑張ったことを見てもらえるということに、子どもたちはとてもワクワクしていました。
We posted our posters and invited AMICUS to join us on an EARTH SAVER POSTER TREASURE HUNT! All AMICUS had to search for our posters and take pictures of which poster they found. K1s made a commercial to send their message. It was exciting! Parents CAN VIEW this commercial on YouTube and see their great job.
学内にポスターを貼り終え、「アースセイバー ポスター トレジャーハント」に参加してもらえるよう、アミークスのみんなを招待しました。すべてのアミークス園児児童生徒そして教職員に、CMのビデオを送り、ポスターを探して、見つけているところの写真を撮ってもらうようにお願いしました。
保護者の皆様も、子どもたちの作ったCMをぜひご覧ください。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lcXCb9ZFFg
Again we want to thank you parents for your support of our K1s everyday.
We also want to thank you K1 friends for their efforts throughout this year. You have grown so much this year. Yay! GOOD JOB K1!
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。
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!
K1の保護者の皆様、今年度は多くのご理解とご協力をいただきどうもありがとうございました。
ここで、K1の素晴らしい子どもたちが今年度学んできたことや、やり遂げてきたことなどについて写真も交えてお伝えしたいと思います。子どもたちは大きく分けて3つのテーマ「植物」「昆虫（虫）」「地球を守ること」に基づいて活動に取り組んできました。ブログではそれらを3回に分けてお伝えします。K1のテーマは、もっと知りたい！学びたい！という子どもたちの意欲にをもとに決めてきました。子どもたちの今年度の活躍をご覧いただき、ぜひご家庭でも楽しんで、またほめていただければと思います。
Part 1- PLANTS「植物」
Our first Theme Project in K1 focused on observing PLANTS around AMICUS, learning what PLANTS need to grow, learning about PLANTS’ life cycles, namely, the cucumber, tomato, soy bean. We also did planting and MORE!
最初の学習テーマは、アミークスにある植物に焦点を当てて観察することでした。植物の成長には何が必要か、そして各植物きゅうり、トマト、大豆のライフサイクルについて学びました。また、様々な植物の種も蒔きました。
We learned about the parts of plants and what plants need to grow.
植物の部分についても学びました。
We made greenhouses for our soy bean seeds and presented our observations in front of the class.
ジッパーバッグを用いてミニ温室を作り、大豆を育てました。お友だちの前で、観察結果の発表も行いました。
We learned what IS a plant and what IS NOT a plant. We made plants using playdough.
何が植物で何が植物でないかを学んだり、年度で好きな植物を作ったりもしました。
We made a “Parts of Plants” book and learned to read about plants in English.
「植物の部分」の本を作り、英語で読みました！
We learned about the life cycles of CUCUMBERS, SOY BEANS and TOMATOES.
きゅうり、大豆、トマトのライフサイクルを学びました。
We started planting on our Kinder Garden.
自分たちの畑に大豆を植えました。
We enjoyed a Plants Treasure Hunt around Amicus.
アミークスを歩き回って、植物探しを楽しみました！
K1s learned a lot about PLANTS in our activities. We hope they will grow healthy and strong like the PLANTS around our beautiful AMICUS.
活動を通してK1の子どもたちは植物についてのたくさんのことを学びました。素敵なアミークスに広がる植物のように、子どもたちにもすくすくと、たくましく育ってほしいですね。
We were taught by one of our K1 friends how to make bug spray (insect repellent) using shell ginger (げっとうの葉). We really enjoyed this two-days project!
He taught us how to make the bug spray. K1s enjoyed cutting the shell ginger leaves. We used lemongrass, myrtle, and mugwort for different aroma.
We boiled the leaves over two days. After cooling, we prepared our spray bottles and put in the bug spray liquid. We were happy to share with Mr. Akiho because he had many bug bites from gardening
We went outside to test our bug spray. Please try our bug spray at home. Please note you can keep it for on 14 day. （２週間以内で使い切るようお願いします。）
