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
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
🤩During Summer Break, our K2 friends did a lot of activities or went to many places. They have fun and interesting stories so we thank you dear parents for helping and letting them present their summer break project/memories.
夏休みのミッションにご参加ありがとうございます。夏の思い出を作品にしたり、好きな生き物を工作したり、また、自分の興味あるものを調べて発表したりと、子どもたちにとって、とても刺激のあるShow and Tellになりました。
Our K2 friends used any of these sentences appropriate to their Show and Tell when they presented. 1. This is a _____________. 2. I made a ____________. 3. I went to ____________ with my _____________. After that, they spoke in Japanese to explain further details of their presentation. This activity gave them more confidence to speak in front of everyone and improve their communication skills. We are really happy that we have learned a lot from them. This activity also develop the listening and thinking skills of those who are watching them because they ask questions after each presentation.
Although we are already finished with the Summer Project Show and Tell, if your child went somewhere, made something cool or wants to share anything interesting with us, please don’t hesitate to bring it to school. We will find time to have Show and Tell. 😊
今回のShow and tellを通して子どもたちは、様々な経験をすることができたと思います。英語での説明や（1. This is a _____________. 2. I made a ____________. 3. I went to ____________ with my _____________. ）日本語で、作った時の思いや工夫した所などを発表し、周りからたくさんの歓声をもらい、子どもたちは自信がついた様子でした。
今回のミッションは一旦終わりですが、引き続き子どもたちの、興味関心のある作品を紹介する機会を設けてますので（Show and tell）楽しみにしてます😀
👍👍👍🥰 Again, thank you dear parents for your support. GREAT JOB EVERYONE ❤️👏👏👏
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.
After the Summer break, K2 friends are happy to be back. Surprisingly, most of them ask first how’s AMICUS and our plants. So, we had a nature walk to check around. Although, we are sad that many trees and other things were destroyed, we are relief to see that many plants are still growing beautifully.
夏休み明け、子どもたちは色々な思い出や、体験をみんなに話してくれました。たくさんの思い出が聞けて嬉しく思います。久しぶりの再会に、いつまでも話が止まらないくらいでした😀幼稚園に戻ってきた子どもたちの様子をご覧ください♩
Nature Walk
Checking of Homework
P.E.
Music
Quiz/Experiment Time
Gardening/Cleaning
Outside Play
😊We are happy to be back.🥰
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!! 💗💗💗
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❤️
Although it is hot daily, it is nice to see the beauty of nature and the clouds in the sky. We, in Kinder are so happy that the weather is good everyday. During our nature walk, we found Hibiscus (ハイビスカス) and Ixora (さんだんか) flowers blooming near our building.
毎日天気の良い日が続き、子どもたちも植物の変化や雲の違いに気づき楽しんでいます。
きれいなハイビスカスやサンダンカも見つけました！
There are also different kinds of insects around. Many of our friends are interested in insects. During outside play, our Kinder friends found an interesting “yellow” praying mantis. According to a specialist, there are only 1 out of 300 praying mantis as shown on TV. We are taking care of it now.
春には見られなかった虫たちもたくさん、園庭に遊びにきています☺
珍しい黄色のカマキリも見つけました。その様子もTVにて放送されました！！
一度逃がしたカマキリでしたが、何度も園庭に現れたため、子どもたちと相談し育てることになりました。
Some friends brought many stag beetle that they were taking care of at home. So, we had a special meeting, decided the rules and agreed on how to take care of them.
幼稚園でもクワガタを育ててみたいという思いから、今回も、新たに違う保護者の方からクワガタをわけてもらいました。
子どもたちとも、お世話をするためにどうしたらいいのか話し合いをし、ルールやクワガタが過ごしやすい場所を決めました。
3 friends made a cicada and shared with us some trivia. Also, one of our friends shared with us some footage of the metamorphosis of cicada. Please watch the video.
また、セミのポスターを作りセミについてわかることをシェアしたり、羽化する様子もシェアありましたので、ビデオにまとめました。ぜひ確認してください。
We also read some books to learn more about the different insects.
We also started learning a new song.
We also had some quiz about insects.
K2 friends were also amazed to research and learn about the different body parts of some insects.
今、子どもたちは虫のことに興味を持ち始めています。自分たちで虫の体の事を調べたり、アクティビティでも学んでいます。
Our K2 friends also enjoyed walking around and catching some insects.
They also made their favorite insects. Please watch the video below. 好きな虫を工作にもしました。是非ビデオの確認もお願いします。
After that, we made a graph of the most favorite insects of our K2 friends.
Please talk to your child about insects. Enjoy playing at the park weekend. Stay safe and healthy. Keep hydrated. 🥤是非、休日は公園へ虫探しを！★熱中症対策、気を付けましょうね！😊
Tanabata
Today is July 7th, the Tanabata festival in Japan. The K1 friends learned about Tanabata from Story Time, and made strips of paper which they wrote their wishes and hung them on bamboo. Also, they made some decorations with the origami!
Water Play & Outside Play
We really enjoyed water play and outside play!!! It was super fun!!!!
Phonics
This week, we reviewed letters from A to G with the sounds, actions and worksheets.
P.E.
K1 friends learned how to make animal poses with their bodies and divide into two teams to play the ball game. When you hit the wall with ball, your team will gets 1 point!!!
Autivity & Gardening
K1 friends learned about many plants by reading botanical illustrated books. Then they chose their favorite plants and made a Plants Book. From next week, we will be divided into a tomato group and a cucumber group, and we will start group learning to learn more deeply. We also do our best in gardening!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone 🙂
Last week Ms. Sawako read a book about Tanabata.
Tanabata, also known as the Star Festival, is a Japanese festival. The story talks about Orihime and Hikoboshi. Every 7th of July is the day that celebrates the meeting of this two deities. It is also believed that when you make Tanzaku and hang your wish in the bamboo tree, when this two deities meet, your wish will come true. So, our Kinder friends also wrote their wishes.
Today, Ms. Masami also read the book about Tanabata during Story Time when they went to the Library.
They also sing a Tanabata Song during their MUSIC Time.
🌠May all our wishes come true!💫