We have invited a special guest to teach us Calligraphy this year. K2 friends enjoyed learning some Kanji and experienced writing them as well.
Here’s a glimpse of what we did with Mr. Nakasone.
On the second day, we watched Mr. Nakasone’s amazing Calligraphy performance with K1 friends. Thank you for your time Mr. Nakasone. đ
Sorry for posting this video late but please enjoy watching what K1 friends did on that day!!
K1 friends have begun practicing for their Marathon event on January 24th. They are challenging and trying to beat their OWN time. They are learning about how to spend their energy wisely so they can finish the race well. We encourage you to enjoy running with your child to help them build their stamina and keep developing their healthy bodies.
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As each family received a Nengajou on January 1st, you probably heard from your child how they made their postcard.
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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!
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After adding some glue in it, they poured it in the special frame in the water. They enjoyed mixing with their hands.
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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. đ Have a wonderful 2023 everyone!
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 đ Happy New Year everyone. Let’s challenge more in making many arts and crafts this year!!!
Welcome back everyone! It was so great to see the students’ smiling faces yesterday 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). Here’s to the great start to a great new year as we countdown our last 3 months of kindergarten. Please enjoy some pictures of our day.
We listened to a ăăżăă°ă story theatre about Japanese New Years folklore
We played Make the Lucky Face (ă”ăăăăïŒ
We learned about the Japanese traditional meal ăăăĄ.
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!
K2 friends have been learning about SOLAR SYSTEM and SPACE during activity time so we went to JAXA today to learn more and answer some of the questions of our K2 friends.
Inside, we learned about rockets, satellites, life in space and many more.
After that, we went to Iha Park to eat LUNCH!
Then, we enjoyed playing with everyone for few minutes before heading back to AMICUS.
We walked approximately 3 km from Iha Park to AMICUS for 40 minutes.
It was a tiring walk but definitely a wonderful experience to go and learn a lot in JAXA and enjoy at Iha Park!âșïž
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 đ
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!
