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Welcome Fall, Welcome Term 2!

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Last weekend marked the end of summer and the beginning of the beautiful fall season. K1s learned about the wonderful seasonal hobby of “moon watching” or じゅうごや。We had fun learning the Japanese traditional song, うさぎつき (Rabbit and the Moon)。K1s made beautiful artwork about the full autumn moon. They used several different art techniques. They had a great time. Please enjoy the photos. We hope you enjoyed a peaceful Autumn Break. We were happy to see most of our K1s back today to start Term 2 with fun!

Moon Art

End of Term 1 Assembly & Teachers Day Celebration- “Thank you, teachers, for all you do!”

We enjoyed our last Nature Walk of Term 1. We look forward to many more as the weather becomes cooler in Term 2.

K1s enjoyed doing leaf rubbing art outside.

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K1- Growing again…

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K1s have been enjoying a lot of activities related to their theme- ANIMALS. They are enjoying discovering the beautiful nature and small animals around them.

アミークス前期も、終わりの日が近くなりましたね。最近のK1の子ども達の様子です🥰ぜひご覧ください💞

Nature Walk

Gardening

Last week we renewed our K1 garden. We decided to plant 4 crops- tomatoes and cucumbers (we want to try again), and eggplants and green peppers. We enjoyed Quiz Time- guessing which plant grows which vegetable. K1s used their 5 senses. It was fun!

先週はK1の畑に、新しく野菜の苗を植えました。さて、なんの野菜の苗でしょうか！植え付ける前に、何の苗なのか形・色・においなどをヒントにクイズを行い、みんなとても興味津々でした。😊

Afterwards we began planting…🌱 Grow plants, grow!!

Phonics

“Learn to play…Play to learn” Learning letters by playing karuta.

Music

“Nabe, nabe…” なーべーなーべー、そーこぬけー♩をペア・大人数でチャレンジしてみました。😊

Activity

現在K1の子ども達は「Animals」について学んでいます。Land animal, Water animal, Flying animal について識別ゲームをしたり、Hide and seek( かくれんぼ)にちなんで、Kinderに隠れている動物カード探しをしました。絵本・歌・動作・ワークシートなどを使って、動物の動き・体の部分（動詞・名詞・形容詞）などについても学んでいるところです。😊

Art

K1s are developing their art skills. Activity #1- how to draw your body and Activity #2 printing with shapes.😊

Drawing my body… 😊

Printing with shapes…😊

Outside play

Bean bag challenge!

K1s have been learning how to juggle using the bean bags. They are working on 3 skill challenges- please ask your child to show you at home.

最近は、お手玉チャレンジに夢中の子がたくさん！レベル１〜レベル３までの技を練習中です。お手玉の寄付ありがとうございました。😊　

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K1 Show and Tell (9/11-9/19)

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Thank you again for your support for our K1s Mission. The Mission is COMPLETE! All K1s have presented and we learned a lot about the foods they made and how they are good for our bodies. It is encouraging to hear that they are using their S&T sentences to talk about their snack and lunch with one another. We look forward to challenging them more as we get into Term 2!

夏休みに取り組んでもらった植物に関する課題の Show & Tell 、今週で全員の発表を終えることができました。今までに食べたことがない野菜や果物を選び、視覚・触覚・聴覚・嗅覚・味覚を使って調べ、それぞれの分かったことをK1のみんなに共有してくれました。👏✨

発表する際に習った、”I made ~.” “It was ~.” のフレーズを発表する子と一緒に全員でも反復練習していたので、子ども達は英語のフレーズを自分ごとに置き換え、スナックタイムやランチタイムでも “It was yummy!” “It’s sweet.” “It’s sour.” ”It’s bumpy!” などの声が聞こえるようになりました。

大勢の前に出ての発表は緊張したと思いますが、Show & Tell を終えた後はみんな自信がついたかのようにキラキラした笑顔を見せていました。ご家庭での取り組み、ご協力ありがとうございました。🥰💓

Naotora & Yo

Tao & Ema

Kaede & Hako

Haruhiro & Shoma

Makoto & Niko

Shiki

Tomato ＆ Cucumber　Group learning

We were happy to see such good results from our pre-summer Group Learning. 夏休み前にK1の子ども達が学習していた”Plants”について、観察結果をアートポスターにしてまとめたものです。

Great job K1 friends!!🥰🙌

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𝓚1 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓖𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓼 𝓓𝓪𝔂!💗

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Last week, K1 friends were working so hard to make the gifts for their grandparents who are Mommy’s parents and Daddy’s parents. We hope you all had a great weekend with your family and that their grandparents like their gifts!🥰

三連休は、おじいちゃん・おばあちゃんと楽しい時間を過ごせたでしょうか。先週K1の子ども達は、いつもお世話になっている大好きなおじいちゃん・おばあちゃんの為に、感謝の気持ちを込めて一生懸命プレゼントを作りました。一つはママのご両親、もう一つはパパのご両親へです。 🥰

Making beads part

Leaf pressing

K1 friends picked some leaves from around Amicus for their grandparents.😘They pressed them into paper clay.

アミークスの校内からおじいちゃん・おばあちゃんをイメージして葉っぱを探し、紙粘土に押し付けて葉っぱの型取りをしました。

Painting

Gifts for grandparents

For the wood art, we recycled the tree from Amicus that fell down in the last big typhoon🌳🌪 K1s are thinking a little about SDGs

ビーズの下にある木の部分は、８月の大きな台風６号の被害で倒れてしまったアミークス校内の木を再利用して作りました。K1の子ども達にとって、このプレゼント作りはとても良い経験になりました。🥰✨

I love you Grandma and Grandpa!!💗

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K1 Show & Tell (9/4-9/8)

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We continue to enjoy hearing about our K1s’ food experiences and how the food they cooked with benefits our bodies. More friends are challenging themselves to eat a variety of different foods. They are learning to present their work to their friends and speaking in a big voice. They are also learning how to ask each other questions. It has been a fun experience so far!

Taiki & Momota

Joshua

Ikki & Yuri

Souta & Kei

Ryo & Masako

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K1 Show & Tell

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We are really enjoying hearing K1’s Show & Tell now. Last week, 8 K1 friends did great job. They were using key sentences like, “I made ~.” “It was ~.” during their turn. Also everyone is practicing speak English together:)

Emma & Kafu

Len & Senoha

Yuimaru & Ryunosuke

Coco & Momoka

My feelings

Outside play

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K1 We are back!!

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We are very happy that K1 friends are back at AMICUS!! Also they were very happy to see their friends after a long time.

We enjoyed doing our K1 NEWS Channel interview program!! “How was your Summer Break?” “What did you do?” “What did you see?” “Where did you go?”

We all wanted to appear on the news, so we had sharing time with all of K1 friends during Art time. Then, we drew about “My summer break memories” in our sketchbooks.

Lunch Time together again!

K1 friends started practice for Family Sports Day!!

Phonics

Also, we started crafting!!

Music

We are learning about onomatopoeia.

Show & Tell

We posted some pictures last time that you couldn’t see, so we will post them again.

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Finishing the Summer Break

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Hello, K1 friends and parents!! We hope you all had a great summer break🥰

Before summer break we were growing tomatoes, cucumbers and carrots in our K1 Garden. Unfortunately the carrots did not grow. Some of our tomato plants grew but quickly died. Fortunately, our cucumber plants did grow up and we are able to harvest one cucumber from K1’s garden with Azukari friends before the big typhoon came! It was a good experience for the students. We learn that sometimes growing food can be difficult, but we will try again! We are planning to plant winter vegetables after K1s return and learn how to better take care of our crops. We hope no more typhoons will come 😉

AMICUS will resumes tomorrow!! So, we would like to announce about what students need to bring here. Please make sure that your child bring these things in the below:

🌺Tool box

🌺Blanket

🌺 Towel

🌺 Inside shoes

🌺 P.E. hat

🌺 Library bag

🌺 Extra clothes (2 sets)

🌺 Communication book

🌺 Lunch, Snack and Water bottle

🌺 Summer mission(poster or book, phonics homework)

Thank you very much for helping your child to complete their summer mission✨ We are very looking forward to see it and having fun with K1 friends again!!😍

See you tomorrow at AMICUS!! 💗💗💗

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🌊🏊‍♂️Water play and Summer Clothes Day👭

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Yehey! It’s summer break. But before that, we had a really fun day.

We received bunches of banana from G2 parent. Kinder friends were amazed to see green bananas turning into yellow. So, yesterday we ate bananas during snack time.

After that, we had water play.

Then, lunch time! Itadakimasu 🍱

Time for the Summer Clothes photos 📷

楽しい夏休みをお過ごし下さい😀今年の夏は特別暑いので、体調には気をつけて楽しんで下さいね！
お土産話し待ってまーす🎵

❤️HAPPY SUMMER BREAK❤️

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K1 Group Learning continues🍅🥒

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The days have been long and sunny, but K1s have continued to learn a lot in spite of the heat.

This week we divided the class into 2 groups for Group Learning Time. We learned more deeply about tomatoes and cucumbers. We used our 5 senses (感覚)to learn about these foods. Their different observations were very interesting. Some friends said, “Tomatoes are quiet”(トマトは静か), and “Tomatoes are plump!” (トマトはぷにゃぷにゃ) . Some friends said, “Cucumbers smell like muchi”(キュウリはムーチーのにおいがする), and “Cucumbers taste bitter.”(キュウリは苦い) We shared our observations and made poster cards of our senses.

Life Cycle

See (sight) : 視覚

Hear : 聴覚

Smell : 嗅覚

Taste : 味覚

Touch : 触覚

K1の子達に観察の結果を聞いてみたところ、たくさんの気づきがありました。また、五感に関する bumpy, smooth, rough, hard, soft, round, long, sweet, bitter, sour, spicy, salty, yummy, crunchy, crispy, juicy, quiet などの英単語も同時に学んでいます。そして、group learningで学んだことを、お互いに発表しました。