Sorry for posting this video late but please enjoy watching what K1 friends did on that day!!
How Kinder friends made handmade postcards.
元旦、各ご家庭では子どもたちからの年賀状を受け取り、どのようにその葉書を作ったかということをお聞きになったかもしれません。
As each family received a Nengajou on January 1st, you probably heard from your child how they made their postcard.
幼稚園にはゴミとなってしまうコピー用紙や様々な紙の端切れなどがあります。子どもたちはまず、それらを手でちぎりミキサーに入れました。またグルーの友だちと相談し、色のある紙をひとつかみ入れました。ミキサーで混ざる様子はにみんな大興奮でした！
There are a lot of waste pieces of copy papers or scraps of papers in Kinder. First, Kinder friends ripped up the papers and put them in a mixer. They also put a hand-full of colored paper after they discussed their team’s color with their group members. They were so excited to mix them up!
少しグルーを混ぜた後は水の中にある紙漉き用の特別な枠に流し込みました。手で混ぜ混ぜする感触を楽しんだ子どもたち。
After adding some glue in it, they poured it in the special frame in the water. They enjoyed mixing with their hands.
この紙漉きの活動を通して、子どもたちは手作りの紙の作り方や、リサイクルすることがどのように大切か、また意味のあることなのかということを学びました。
Kinder friends learned how to make handmade paper and how recycling is important and meaningful through this activity.
We hope that you received the NEW YEAR postcards that we sent. 🙂 Have a wonderful 2023 everyone!
Kinder Holiday Crafts
Our Kindergarteners are learning and making many crafts to show their skills and creativity.
K2 friends made their Sports Day frames and pottery. They also made many Christmas ornaments that they brought home at the beginning of December. They also made/sewn their own Christmas bags and brought them home during Pajama/Winter Clothes Day.
Our K1 friends also made their bags using used clothes and snowflakes. They also brought them home with the presents inside during the same event.
After Christmas, New YEAR came! Since it is the YEAR of the RABBIT, K2 friends made their New Year’s Resolution at the back of their cute rabbit arts.
It is nice to see these smiles again 🙂 Happy New Year everyone. Let’s challenge more in making many arts and crafts this year!!!
The 1st day of K1 in 2023!
Welcome back everyone! It was so great to see the students’ smiling faces and hear about their Winter Break memories. Some families travelled. Some stayed at home and made wonderful memories here in Okinawa. Teachers are glad everyone could rest and relax (or recover from illness) and that we can continue our last 3 months of school. Here are some pictures from our fun first day back.
Snack and Outside Play
Checking our soybeans- unfortunately, our soy beans did now grow. We were sad but K1s were about to think about why our third try had failed. They said they want to try again so we will discuss again how to grow sow beans and, if possible, challenge and try again!
We had good fun in the classroom, too.
We also enjoyed learning about Japanese New Year with K2 friends. We wish for a blessed and prosperous year for all our Amicus Families!
Kokuto Factory and Iha Park
Today we visited the brown sugar factory in Yomitan Village as part of our Food and Nutrition theme. Students were amazed to learn about how healthy sweet brown sugar is made. They learned a lot from the tour. They were happy to be able to take some kokuto (brown sugar nugget) home 🙂
After the brown sugar factory we went to Iha Park to have our picnic lunch and play. Afterward we walked back to Kinder. It was our first time to walk such a long distance together. The walk 3km in 50minutes. They did a SUPER good job!
THANK YOU FOR COMING!!
K1s and Teachers were so happy to FINALLY have (Mini)SPORTS DAY! Although we could not show everything, we were so happy to show you some of our skills and how we have been growing throughout this year. K1s “challenge and tried” today and, thanks to parents’ participation and support we were able to have a fun and successful event. Again, Mommy, Daddy, thank you for coming!
ALOHAISAI DANCE
BALLOON RACE
RELAY
BALLOON GAME
BALLOON DANCE
CLOSING CEREMONY
Sweet Potato Digging…
Because of the poor weather we were unable to go sweet potato digging in Yomitan. Students were sad about it but during our Story Time we were able to do creative version of sweet potato digging in our classroom.
K1s still had a good experience 🙂
👻 Halloween at Kinder 🎃
Today, a fun event has been successfully held even if the rain is pouring outside. We had special schedule to enjoy our Halloween Costume Day.
1️⃣ 𝓕𝓪𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓢𝓱𝓸𝔀
2️⃣ 𝓗𝓪𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓗𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮
3️⃣ 𝓖𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓼
4️⃣ 𝓣𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓴 𝓸𝓻 𝓣𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽
😊Thank you dear parents for your cooperation. Everyone looked happy and cute in their costumes. ❤️
Color Monster
To reflect on our feelings at the end of Term 1 and the first part of Term 2 and as the end of October approaches we read Color Monster. K1s thought about the feelings they learned about in the book and about other feelings they might have that are not in the book. Then we made our own color monsters to decorate our classroom.
だいすきだよ by K1 friends
Thank you very much K1 parents for coming to our Mini Performance Day today. This is the video that we showed. Please enjoy it with your family!