Amicus Kindergarten

Learning to play. Playing to learn. :-)

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!

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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!!!

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January Newsletter

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Happy New Year!今年もよろしくお願いします!!

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 かみしばい story theatre about Japanese New Years folklore

We played Make the Lucky Face (ふくわらい)

We learned about the Japanese traditional meal おせち.

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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!

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K2 JAXA Field Trip

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!☺️

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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!

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Making “Wind Tops” with Mr. Teruya.

This week we welcomed Mr. Teruya back to teach K1s how to make a “wind top” using milk carton bottoms and yarn. Again, K1s enjoyed learning about reusing materials and spending time with てるやおじいさん 🙂

We had a great time!

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🎂Birthday Party (11月と12月の誕生日会)🍰

Here is the glimpse of Kinder Birthday Party.

Please click the links below to watch November and December Birthday.

🧁HAPPY BIRTHDAY❤️ 

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✨Games with Mr. Teruya (K2)✨

Today, we invited Mr. Teruya again. 🤩

We walked around AMICUS and got palm tree seeds.

Each of them got 5 seeds. After that, we played “rock, scissors, paper”.

Later on, we counted how many seeds do we have left in our bag. Some friends didn’t have any, some of them won many times so they had a lot. 😊 

But the fun didn’t end there, we had another game. Each of them had 5 seeds again. They walked around, found a partner and hid some in their hands. They both said, “なんこ なんこ いーくつ!!!” Then, they needed to guess the total seed that Friend 1 and Friend 2 are holding. Whoever guess it right got all the seeds.

👍What a nice MATH GAME!!! Good job everyone and THANK YOU Mr. Teruya! 👏

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