Amicus Kindergarten

Learning to play. Playing to learn. :-)

K2 Catching and Sketching of Insects

There are many living things around AMICUS insects, geckos, frogs, and others.

This week, we enjoyed the nice weather and the sight of these creatures.

“I want to catch insects!”

“Let’s catch the insects together!”

“I caught a butterfly!”

“We caught this grasshopper together.”

“I caught a ladybug!”

“I caught a honeybee!!!”

“I caught a praying mantis.”

“I caught many grasshoppers!”

These are some of their words after catching the insects! They were so happy to be outside and catch them.

Look how many insects did they catch 🙂

They are also interested in frogs so they caught them too! 🙂

Except the frogs, we brought all the insects inside the classroom for a while and sketch them.

After they finished sketching, they surely release them outside. 🙂

Everyone feels glad with this experience 🙂 Truly, simple things like appreciation of nature and hands-on experience make every learning more meaningful! 😉

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Bus and Safety Rules Orientation

This week we had two important orientations so that our students may have awareness of safety in the buses and on the roads.

K1 and K2 Bus Orientation

When our students ride the bus for any event or field trip, it is important that they know what to do if there is an emergency. Thus, our teachers and SENON staff helped them learn to be calm and listen so that they can safely evacuate when needed.

K1 and K2 Traffic Safety Rules

Gushikawa Police Officers came and taught our friends to how to safely cross the road in order to avoid any accident.

Lastly, we close our week with a good weather. K1 and K2 friends ate and play outside together. 🙂

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Happy Mother’s Day

To the world you are a MOTHER, but to your FAMILY, YOU are the WORLD. -Unknown

We appreciate all your efforts and love dear AMICUS Moms. With this, our Kindergarteners made their own presents for you.

K1 friends made aroma candles and cards.

K2 friends made bougainvillea garlands with their messages and pictures.

We wish you a wonderful day and we hope that you like their personally-handcrafted gift for YOU.

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おかあさん いつも ありがとう❤️

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April Birthday Party

Hello everyone 🙂

We are going to upload our Monthly Birthday Party here in our blog. We hope that even if we cannot invite parents due to the Covid-19 pandemic, you may have an idea of our celebration.

Our K2 friends are the hosts of the event. They decided by themselves who would like to be the MCs, pianists and performers.

4月のお誕生日会を行いました♪コロナウイルスの影響で、保護者の皆様を招待することができず残念ですが、ビデオ配信より、少しでもお誕生日会の雰囲気を楽しんでもらえたらと思います。

お誕生日会では、K2の子どもたちが自分達で、司会やピアノ演奏、パフォーマンスをする人を決め、練習を行いました。お誕生日会本番では、自分達で、会を楽しく進めていました。

Here is a glimpse of our April Birthday Party.

Enjoy watching 🙂

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Golden Week

How’s everyone after the Golden Week?

We hope that everyone is healthy and happy.

Our K2 friends made their own ‘koinobori’ craft for Children’s Day.

We pray for our Kindergarteners’ health, success and happiness 🙂

Have a wonderful weekend! 🙂

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May Newsletter

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K1 friends had a fun time this week!

This week we started our All about me activities to get to know each other better. Students first made their handprint tree.

K1 students decided what they want to learn for their main theme. They chose between animals, sea animals, space, insects, and plants. We took a vote and it was decided that we will learn about… Plants!

On Wednesday we had our first Kinder Birthday Party. We had a great time celebrating our April birthday friends. K2 friends played the piano, MC’d and performed tricks using tops (koma) and kendama.

We made carp streamer art (koinobori) for Children’s Day.

K1s enjoyed English music time this week, singing Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes, playing Simon Says, and learning our spring song and poem.

Because of the beautiful weather we enjoyed eating and playing outside.

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This week in fun K1!

We did SO MANY things this week in K1! We really want to show you…

Nature Walk- We walked around Amicus and saw many different trees, flowers, fish, horses, birds and more! We collected many nature materials for our activities.

Getto leaf boats– One K1 friend made a getto leaf boat at home and brought it to show friends. Students said they want to make one, too. So we collected many getto leaves on our nature walk and made leaf boats.

Japanese music- This week students enjoyed their first Japanese music lessons. They are learning about rhythm, movement, and how to sing こいのぼり.

P.E.- Last week we enjoyed playing with balloons in the Gym. This week K1s learned how to use good manners in the gym, and how to stretch their bodies well, and how to have fun “P.E. style“. They enjoyed moving like animals and practicing their jumping.

Outside play- We spent a lot of time outside this week. We enjoyed running, playing, digging in the sandbox and catching tadpoles and frogs. Students wanted to learn more about frogs so they read books about frogs. After observing them, they let it go.

K1 garden- We started planting seeds in our planter pots. We are looking forward to learning how plants and food grow!

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First Week in Kinder (Apr 9-16)

Welcome to the 2021-2022

SCHOOL YEAR Kinder friends 🙂

We are looking forward to a fruitful year ahead with you our Kinder friends 🙂

Keep smiling, enjoying and learning with us 🙂

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Thank you!

Thank you again for joining our PT conferences.

We look forward to having a great year with our SY2021 Kinders! よろしくお願いいたします。

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