HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2025-26: Week 6

Hello, Orca Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

Our morning meetings this week were so so energetic and active! First, we talked about our 8 classroom rules to guide them throughout the day. Then, we started singing good morning song wherein we formed a circle and danced together as we say hello to everyone. It was such a joy seeing them laughing and holding each others' hands to begin our day. It was followed by checking our calendar time, assigning class jobs, doing a movement song and sharing about our whereabouts through our Class Dojo photos. In addition, we continued to practice for our performance for our upcoming Sports day. Also, we had a Sweet Potato planting at Izumi campus this Friday and everyone had so much fun planting and afterwards, we had a

In the afternoon, we read a storybook and had mini discussion through asking WH-questions like why, what, where, when and how in order to enhance their story comprehension and enrich their vocabulary words. This week was also our Show and Tell week. It was wonderful to see and listen from our friends' family photos from Blue group. Our friends shared that they love their family because it is fun, beautiful and simply love their family for who they are. We ended our day through reading a storybook and singing a goodbye song.

Language & Literacy

Pre-K

These are the activities we did from last week to this week. To jumpstart our Literacy time , we started talking about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "My Body". We described the pictures and read aloud the words with everyone. Then, we also had Phonics Aa and learn more vocabulary words. In addition, we did some related Raz-Kids and sight word worksheets, and had a Phonics uppercase and lowercase letter paired game as a form of review. We aimed to enhance not only their literacy facet but also to lengthen their attention span and enhanced their focus and concentration which is essential to develop their skills and bodies holistically. It was an absolute fun!

Kinder

These are the activities we did from last week to this week. To jumpstart our Literacy time , we started talking about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "Nothing Scares Me". We described the pictures and read aloud the sentences. We also asked them to read one sentence per each child to enhance their confidence and reading fluency. Then, we read an alphabet Raz-Kids book to talk about short vowel u. We also made a craft related to this topic, learned the sight words and did some related worksheets.

Maths

Pre-K

This week we talked about different basic shapes for our math lessons. We named some shapes such as squares, rectangles, circles and triangles. We made some artworks using different pre-cut shapes, made shape characters, and used the shape tiles to make different animals out of basic shapes.

Kinder

For Kinder class this week, our math lessons were about reviewing addition of numbers up to a sum of 10. We also played a simple card matching game with addition facts. We continued to practice our fundamental arithmetic skills and mental calculations. Lots of students were able to use different strategies to help them find out the answers, such as counting fingers or using counters, and some with no materials at all.

Topic Exploration

This week, we talked about, "All About My Body ". We delved into understanding our own bodies and its parts! We danced to a lot of movement songs like Patty Shukla's Shake and Move, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, made crafts like a My Body using cut-out colored papers and a family picture frame out of ; painted our own DIY percussion instrument that we will use in music activity; and had a collaborative activity of my body parts wherein the Pre-K and Kinder students worked together.

Free Play

Here are some more pictures of friends playing together in the classroom, in the Big Room, at the park, and enjoying other topics, events and activities at school.