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。
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!
K1の保護者の皆様、今年度は多くのご理解とご協力をいただきどうもありがとうございました。
ここで、K1の素晴らしい子どもたちが今年度学んできたことや、やり遂げてきたことなどについて写真も交えてお伝えしたいと思います。子どもたちは大きく分けて3つのテーマ「植物」「昆虫（虫）」「地球を守ること」に基づいて活動に取り組んできました。ブログではそれらを3回に分けてお伝えします。K1のテーマは、もっと知りたい！学びたい！という子どもたちの意欲にをもとに決めてきました。子どもたちの今年度の活躍をご覧いただき、ぜひご家庭でも楽しんで、またほめていただければと思います。
Part 1- PLANTS「植物」
Our first Theme Project in K1 focused on observing PLANTS around AMICUS, learning what PLANTS need to grow, learning about PLANTS’ life cycles, namely, the cucumber, tomato, soy bean. We also did planting and MORE!
最初の学習テーマは、アミークスにある植物に焦点を当てて観察することでした。植物の成長には何が必要か、そして各植物きゅうり、トマト、大豆のライフサイクルについて学びました。また、様々な植物の種も蒔きました。
We learned about the parts of plants and what plants need to grow.
植物の部分についても学びました。
We made greenhouses for our soy bean seeds and presented our observations in front of the class.
ジッパーバッグを用いてミニ温室を作り、大豆を育てました。お友だちの前で、観察結果の発表も行いました。
We learned what IS a plant and what IS NOT a plant. We made plants using playdough.
何が植物で何が植物でないかを学んだり、年度で好きな植物を作ったりもしました。
We made a “Parts of Plants” book and learned to read about plants in English.
「植物の部分」の本を作り、英語で読みました！
We learned about the life cycles of CUCUMBERS, SOY BEANS and TOMATOES.
きゅうり、大豆、トマトのライフサイクルを学びました。
We started planting on our Kinder Garden.
自分たちの畑に大豆を植えました。
We enjoyed a Plants Treasure Hunt around Amicus.
アミークスを歩き回って、植物探しを楽しみました！
K1s learned a lot about PLANTS in our activities. We hope they will grow healthy and strong like the PLANTS around our beautiful AMICUS.
活動を通してK1の子どもたちは植物についてのたくさんのことを学びました。素敵なアミークスに広がる植物のように、子どもたちにもすくすくと、たくましく育ってほしいですね。
For our last field trip K1s challenged themselves and walked 2.5km to Iha Park (40 minutes). They enjoyed playing a lot at the park. On the way back to Kinder we picked up garbage along the road. We collected 4 large bags of “burnable garbage” and one bag of “non-burnable garbage”. It took us 1.5hours to walk back. K1s were tired but they could realize how strong their bodies are and appreciate their bodies. They could also understand how important it is to throw away garbage in the right place. We are EARTH SAVERS! 🙂
It was a beautiful day to ride horses. K1s enjoyed their experience. They learned about our Amicus horses’ names and ages. They learned how to touch the horse gently and the importance of greeting the horse before getting on and thanking the horse when getting off. Finally, after learning how to be safe around the horses, K1s were ready to ride.
This morning we enjoyed our Kinder Marathon. K1s and K2s challenged themselves and ran their very best. We are so proud of them! Please praise your child for a Super Job!
Congratulations to our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners!
Congratulations to our K1 Marathon Challengers!
Calligraphy is one of the highlights this year as our K2 friends learned how to read and write in Hiragana then, Kanji at the end. Here is a glimpse of their experience. Please enjoy watching 🙂
