This week K1s had their first P.E. lesson with Mr. Hosono. They really enjoyed exercising and getting SUPER sweaty!
Art Time- we painted in our sketchbooks and made balloon painting art.
Phonics- we learned about letters and letter sounds. We prepared our English Box.
Everyone enjoyed their first P.E. for this school year. Thank you so much for your cooperation of letting them wear their P.E. Uniform. Have a great day!
明日、4月21日木曜日は今年度最初の体育を行います。PEユニフォームを着て登園することをお忘れにならないようお願いいたします。着替え（グレーシャツ、ブルーショーツ）も忘れずにお願いいたします。
Tomorrow, April 21, 2022 will be our first P.E. day. Please don’t forget to let your child wear your P.E. uniform tomorrow. Please bring extra clothes (AMICUS gray t-shirt and blue pants) as well.
Thank you and we are looking forward to have fun and energy-filled Physical Education activities with our Kinder friends.
WELCOME AGAIN TO AMICUS KINDERGARTEN, K1!
Our week has been a great, busy week. We teachers are learning all of our new K1s’ names and faces and personalities. Yes, there was some crying, but there was a lot of smiling and laughing throughout this week, too. We would like to share some of this week’s pictures with you. Please enjoy!
Coming to school…
Snack Time/ Lunch Time
Circle Time
Kinder Tour
Reading Time
Stations Time (free play)
Story Time- We read a book about “poop”. It was very interesting for K1s. With the book we learned about horses poop so we check our AMICUS horses to see what their poop looks like. Many friends are interested in horses and enjoyed watching our special animals.
Circle Time Team-building Activity- Brown Bear puzzle
AMICUS School Tour- K1s learned a lot about our campus. We also enjoyed playing outside in the beautiful weather.
Outside play
We welcome our new K1 friends and 7 new K2 friends during our Entrance Ceremony yesterday;)
Today, we were busy but our K2 FRIENDS had a great time 🙂
First, we had Opening Ceremony 🙂
Then, we went out for a nature walk around AMICUS.
Then, we had a great time eating lunch and playing outside.
After that, we had Story Time.
Let’s enjoy playing and learning together K2 FRIENDS 🙂
Thank you parents and guardians for all of your support for our K1s throughout this year. We appreciate you!
We would like to take some time to share a photo review for you so we can see all our amazing K1s learned and accomplished this year. We explored three major themes this year- PLANTS, INSECTS & BUGS and EARTH SAVING. We will post them as a 3-part series. Our Theme Projects were decided on by the students, which greatly motivated them to learn more month by month. Please enjoy and please praise your child for a job well done this year!
Part 3- EARTH SAVERS!「アースセイバー」
For our final Theme Project of K1 we focused on learning about the SDGs- Sustainable Development Goals. Our first Earth Saver challenge was to eat all our lunch every day and not waste precious food. It became our Perori Challenge!
K1での最後の取り組みとして、SDGs（持続可能な開発目標）について学びました。アースセイバー（地球を守る人）としての最初の挑戦は、大切な食べ物を無駄にしないで、毎日お弁当をすべて食べきるということでした。それは後々、「ペロリチャレンジ」と呼ばれるようになりました。
K1s became interested in becoming Earth Savers in more ways all the time. Once they understood the importance of not wasting and of throwing away garbage properly they quickly moved on to thinking about the importance of pick up garbage around them. So we started taking regular walks around AMICUS to pick up garbage to clean up.
K1の子どもたちは、常に様々な方法でアースセイバーになることに興味を持ち始めました。物を無駄にしないことやごみを正しく捨てるということについて理解すると、子どもたちの頭は「身近なごみを拾おう」ということに繋がりました。そこで、日ごろの学内散歩でもゴミ拾いをすることになりました。
Since we had to learn what to do with the garbage we picked up we spent many Activity Time lessons learning about sorting garbage and what happens to our garbage when we throw it away. It was so interesting!
拾ったごみをどうすればいいのか、子どもたちには考える機会が与えられました。そして、ごみを分別することや、自分たちの捨てたごみがその後どうなっていくのかなど、たくさんの活動を通してゴミについて学びました。子どもたちにとって、とても興味深かったようです。
K1s learned to identify and sort “burnable”, “non-burnable”, and “compost” garbage. We were able to use what we learned about garbage in our Kinder Performance Day video as well.
「もやせるごみ」「もやせないごみ」「堆肥になるごみ」があるということを知りました。パフォーマンスビデオを作るにあたり、自分たちの学び生かすことができました。
Because K1s enjoyed being Earth Savers so much they were super motivated to share what they learned with the rest of AMICUS. They thought the best way to teach about SDGs was to make posters and post them around the school for everyone to see. They made groups and decided of what SDG to teach AMICUS. We took a walk to see how effective posters are at teaching information. K1s took photos of interesting posters and thought about how they could make their posters interesting, too.
アースセイバーであること楽しんだK1の子どもたちは自分たちの学んだことを他のアミークスの人たちみんなにシェアすることに意欲を燃やしていました。SDGsについて伝えるのに一番良い方法は、学校のあちらこちらにポスターを貼ってみてもらうことだと考えました。子どもたちはグループを作り、どの項目についてのポスターを作るか、それぞれが決めました。まず、どのようなポスターがより効果的に情報を伝えられるのか、学内を歩きながら見て回りました。興味を持ったポスターの写真を撮り、興味を持ってもらえそうなポスターはどうしたら作れるのかを考えました。
We looked around the school for the best place to post our posters. Then we got Mr. Dakin’s permission to post our posters. K1s were so excited for the whole school to see their hard work.
自分たちのポスターを貼るのに一番いいところはどこか探し、ミスターデイキンからポスター掲示の許可をもらいました。アミークスのみんなに自分たちが頑張ったことを見てもらえるということに、子どもたちはとてもワクワクしていました。
We posted our posters and invited AMICUS to join us on an EARTH SAVER POSTER TREASURE HUNT! All AMICUS had to search for our posters and take pictures of which poster they found. K1s made a commercial to send their message. It was exciting! Parents CAN VIEW this commercial on YouTube and see their great job.
学内にポスターを貼り終え、「アースセイバー ポスター トレジャーハント」に参加してもらえるよう、アミークスのみんなを招待しました。すべてのアミークス園児児童生徒そして教職員に、CMのビデオを送り、ポスターを探して、見つけているところの写真を撮ってもらうようにお願いしました。
保護者の皆様も、子どもたちの作ったCMをぜひご覧ください。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lcXCb9ZFFg
Again we want to thank you parents for your support of our K1s everyday.
We also want to thank you K1 friends for their efforts throughout this year. You have grown so much this year. Yay! GOOD JOB K1!
Thank you parents and guardians for all of your support for our K1s throughout this year. We appreciate you!
We would like to take some time to share a photo review for you so we can see all our amazing K1s learned and accomplished this year. We explored three major themes this year- PLANTS, INSECTS & BUGS and EARTH SAVING. We will post them as a 3-part series. Our Theme Projects were decided on by the students, which greatly motivated them to learn more month by month. Please enjoy and please praise your child for a job well done this year!
Part 2- INSECTS & BUGS「昆虫（虫）」
For this Theme Project we caught and observed live insects, focused on that what Insects are, what is the difference between an Insect and a Bug, learned which are safe and which are dangerous, etc. We even cared for our class pet, Lucky, a rare yellow praying mantis and MORE!
この時のテーマでは、昆虫とは何か、昆虫と虫との違いは何か、安全な虫や危険な虫は何か…などに焦点を当て、身近にいる生きている虫を捕まえて観察しました。また、珍しい黄色のカマキリを「ラッキー」と名付け、大事に大事に育てることにしました。
Learning about Insects’ bodies and catching Insects around our Kinder Playground.
We learned about safe and dangerous Insects. K1s learned this new vocabulary and it all throughout the year.
安全な虫、危険な虫について学びました。子どもたちは覚えた新しい言葉を、その後もよく口にしました。
K1s combined their Phonics skills and their Insects knowledge to enjoy an ABC Insect & Bugs Treasure Hunt. Afterward they made artwork about the Insects they found. They learned new phrases like “L is for ladybug.”
フォニックスで学んだことや虫についての知識を合わせ、虫探しを楽しみました。その後は見つけた虫の作品作りをし、「〇 is for 〇〇.」といった新たなフレーズも覚えました。「L is for ladybug.」
We enjoyed a special The Very Hungry Caterpillar felt apron theater time. From this we started learning about the butterfly life cycle.
はらぺこあおむしのエプロンシアターを楽しみました。ここから、蝶々のライフサイクルの学びが始まりました。
We welcomed Lucky, to our K1 family and took care of her for one month. We learned about what praying mantis’ like to eat, how often the eat, how to feed her, how to clean Lucky’s cage and More!
K1にカマキリのラッキーを迎えてから1か月間、一生懸命子どもたちはお世話をしました。カマキリはどんな食べ物が好きなのか、どれくらい食べるのか、どんな風にあげたらいいのか、虫かごの掃除はどうするか…など、たくさんの疑問が学びへとつながりました。
After learning a lot about Insects & Bugs and taking care of Lucky, it was time to finish our project and let Lucky go back to the forest. Thank you, Lucky, for helping us to learn so much about the small world of insects and bugs!
虫についての学びやラッキーのお世話の後、虫をテーマにした学びは終わりとなり、ラッキーを森に帰す時がやってきました。小さな小さな虫たちの住む世界でも、知らないことはまだまだたくさん！そんな小さな世界をＫ１の子どもたちが知るために、いっぱいお手伝いをしてくれたラッキー、ありがとう！また会えるといいね。
