K1s really love their friends. To show our friendship, we learned about the story of St. Valentine, learned Valentines words and then made hearts and Valentines poems for each other. We hope your family had a special Valentines Day as well!
Choosing partners by drawing lots (くじびき)
My Valentines Friend
Giving Valentines
We are learning about different continents and some countries now for our performance day. But we would like to share some of our special activities.
冬休み明け、引き続き色々な国や地域について学んできました。その一部を紹介します♪
🇵🇭 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙤🥭
Mango is very popular in Okinawa. However, Philippine mango is a different variety. Filipinos love mangoes too. But we eat green (unripe) mangoes and yellow (ripe) mangoes.
沖縄は、マンゴーで有名ですが、フィリピンでもマンゴーは人気で、また色々な種類のマンゴーがあります！
Since, Kinder friends have tried the sweet Okinawa mango, we let them try the sour Philippine mango as well. Please check the pictures for their reactions.
K2お泊り会では、沖縄のあまーいマンゴーを食べた子どもたち。今回は、フィリピンの酸っぱいマンゴーを食べてみました！みんなのリアクションはどうだったかな？！
𝚃𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚍 (𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙿𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜 🇵🇭 & 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍 🇹🇭)
タマリンド
In the Philippines, it is popularly used as a special ingredient to different kinds of soup.
タマリンドは、フィリピンで、さまざまな種類のスープの特別な材料としてよく使われています。
Since it is very nutritious food, we planted the seed 3 years ago in Kinder.
栄養価が高い実で、幼稚園では３年前に育て始めました！
タマリンドの木見つけられたかな？
Our students tried the tamarind. This sweet variety of tamarind is from Thailand.
Next are Mu-chi no hi and Setsubun 🇯🇵
𝐎𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐰𝐚 𝐌𝐮-𝐜𝐡𝐢
We listened to the story and learned that it is traditional to eat mu-chi to ward off demons, protect from evil, and pray for good health.
１月１８日（旧暦１２月８日）は、沖縄の伝統行事、ムーチーの日でした。 ムーチーを食べ、悪疫を祓い、子どもたちの健やかな成長を願います。 幼稚園では、その由来のお話を聞き、ムーチーの香りを楽しみました。
Mu-chi also come in different flavors. Did you eat mu-chi this year?
𝕊𝕖𝕥𝕤𝕦𝕓𝕦𝕟 🫘
K2 friends learned a song during their Music Time.
They also listened to the stories about Setsubun and thought of the ogre/demon/monster attitude inside them that they want to get rid of.
２月３日は節分です。幼稚園では、絵本を通して節分の鬼を自分の直したいところにたとえ、その鬼を追い出すことにしました！
Then, during their art time, they made their oni and throw some soy beans to drive away those oni attitude inside them.
アートの時間に作った、自分の中にいる鬼（直したいところ）に豆まきをして、鬼を外に追い出しました！
⚾ⒷⒶⓈⒺⒷⒶⓁⓁ ✩ 𝚐𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 ✩ ⓈⒽⓄⒽⒺⒾ ⓄⒽⓉⒶⓃⒾ✨
Japanese and a lot of people around the world love baseball. Shohei Ohtani is a very popular Japanese baseball player sent baseball gloves to AMICUS students to encourage them to play baseball. Our K2 friends were very happy and grateful.
野球は日本人はもちろん、世界中の多くの人々に人気のあるスポーツの一つです。野球をすることを奨励するために、大リーグで活躍中の大谷翔平選手から、アミークスの生徒たちに野球グローブが送られてきました。K2の子どもたちはとても喜んでいました！
🌸 Ｃｈｅｒｒｙ Ｂｌｏｓｓｏｍ Ｓｅａｓｏｎ 🌸
We took a break from practicing and ate lunch outside under the cherry blossom trees.
桜の季節がやってきました！アミークスも桜がきれいに咲いています。みんなでお花見ランチをしました♪
Happy long weekend! See you on Tuesday!
Today, We had “Crazy Hair Day”!!! K1 friends came to Amicus with their favorite hairstyles and big smiles! Please enjoy our group pictures!!
Mommy and Daddy, thank you so much for helping make their fun hair styles so early in the morning for our special FUN Friday! Have a great long weekend! (*^▽^*)
In Japan, February 3rd is Setsubun day. On this day people throw soy beans to chase away monsters. In Kinder we talked about how some monsters can live in our heart and we need to chase them away so we can stay happy and healthy. Here are pictures from our “Go away monster” fun!
明日、２月３日（土）は節分の日ですね！K1の子達は、節分とは何かを学んだ後に、自分の ”心の中にいる鬼” をステッカーを使って表現しました。
音楽の時間では、「豆まきの歌」を習い、元気いっぱい歌いました！
自分の心の中にいる鬼に向かって、力いっぱい豆まきをしました！
GO AWAY!! MONSTER!!
K1の子達の心の中にいた鬼は逃げていきました！！これで、今年も一年、健康で幸せに過ごせますように！(*^▽^*)
Activity
Now K1 friends are learning about Countries and the 7 continents (North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania and Antarctic) during Activity time!
Researching about Jamaica
Researching about Australia
Researching about South Africa
Outside play and Gardening
The weather has been beautiful this week, K1 friends are having lots of fun playing outside!
It was a perfect day to ride the horses! This week the weather was very, very cold, but thankfully it warmed up enough for us to enjoy getting to know our Amicus horses Louisy, Bolt, and Puma.
Leaning about how to ride the horses.
We experienced brushing the horses.
We experienced cleaning the horses hooves.
We experienced feeding the horses.
We enjoyed touching our beloved Amicus horses. K1s look forward to their next horse riding activity.
K1s were happy to see each other again after the break. We started our time together by telling each other about our experiences. We enjoyed seeing some of our friends’ photos. Thank you for sending them to us!
We had fun playing together in the Gym!
We enjoyed reading a Japanese picture card book (kamishibai) and playing the new year’s game, fukuwarai. It was so funny!
We ended the busy week with making and flying our homemade kites. It was a great week!
It’s a new year! At the beginning of the year everyone takes time to think about what they want to do or what they want to do better this year. K1 friends also made such “new year’s resolutions”. Enjoy their wishes for 2024!
Kinder friends are challenging themselves and getting ready for our Marathon. Here are some photos. We hope you enjoy seeing their effort in pictures.
Happy New Year 2024! Wishing you all a wonderful New year! We are so happy to see your child with their big smiles are back to Amicus!! K1 friends made the New Year’s Cards（年賀状）using recycled paper before the winter break. It was such a great experience for them because reusing paper and reduces waste are good for the environment too. Did you receive a handmade New Year’s Card? Please enjoy watching the group pictures!
