HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2025-26: Week 20

Hello, Orca Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

Our day started having a guessing game of our classroom rules wherein the teacher shared an example of a misbehavior and what classroom rule should we use to correct our behavior. Everyone were so good at telling which rule should be used. Our morning meetings this week were truly meaningful! 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. Moreover, we had our morning assembly headed by our Starfish teachers teaching us how to be a risk-taker through a guess the box activity. Our Orca friends had a box filled with pine cones. In addition, we had a Stranger Danger seminar this Friday and they learned so much about being safe from strangers too in our environment.

In the afternoon, we continued our Term 2 Show and Tell this week. It was wonderful that our friends' different objects and photos about their favorite sports or games from Red group. It was engaging and meaningful as we tried to guess what our friends brought/showed. Our friends shared about a cataputl, swimming, baseball and rubics cube. Next week , it will be Blue group's turn. We ended our day through reading a storybook and singing a goodbye song.

Language & Literacy

Pre-K

These are the activities we did for this week. To jumpstart our Literacy time , we started talking about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "Winter Fun". We described the pictures and read aloud the words with everyone. Then, we did our Jolly Phonics classroom and talked about phonics ``oo`` this week through activities like singing a song, Jolly Phonics, beginning ``oo`` for book craft through making a pretend book and pasting pictures with beginning sound, and a phonics worksheet. In addition, we did a related Raz-Kids worksheet. 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.

Kinder

These are the activities we did for this week. To jumpstart our Literacy time , we started talking about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "The MItten". We described the pictures and read aloud the sentences. It was such a delight how Kinder students learn ask more questions as they began to expand their vocabulary words through reading. Then, we talked about Digraph TH through Jolly Phonics Classroom, digraph song, phonics worksheet, and made a bath tub craft to enhance our understanding , and did some related Raz-Kids worksheets. Last, we also practiced reading our chosen Raz-Kids book for our Literacy Week: Kinders Read To Us.

Maths

Pre-K

These are the activities we did for this week. We started the week by playing a new game in which the children raced each other to see which team could sort a large number of balls into groups of the same color. Through this game we explored and described shapes, learnt about spatial awareness, and strengthened our motor skills by balancing and sorting balls into correct color coordinates. Later on in the week we made our own rulers to introduce the concept of measurement. We used these rulers to measure everyday objects found within our classroom and had the students record the length of the objects in centimeters. This activity helped us further fine tune our motor skills as the students cut and assembled their rulers by themselves. We also reinforced our understanding of counting and volume as the students counted how long each object was and had a visual representation of how much space the objected occupied (its volume).

Kinder

These are the activities we did for this week. We started the week by playing a new game in which the children raced each other to see which team could sort a large number of balls into groups of the same color. Through this game we explored and described shapes, learnt about spatial awareness, and strengthened our motor skills by balancing and sorting balls into correct color coordinates. Later on in the week we made a fruit tree which helped us reinforce our understanding of patterns. We also strengthened our knowledge of sorting and pairs as we organized animals into their natural environments being land, water, and sky. We capped this activity off by counting how many animals can exists in an ecosystem. We also worked on addition up to 40 with various worksheets.

Topic Exploration

This week, we talked about Winter Sports such as skiing, skating, sledding and a little bit of ice hockey through play. These are the activities we did for this week. We sang a song, watched an educational video to introduce the topic, made a sledding craft using pretend puppets, painted a ski board for a collaborative activity made of cardboard and tissue boxes and once dried we played a race in the big room. In addition, we had our own winter craft with our photos in the middle while riding a sled and using cotton filling for pretend snow and lastly, we had a winter sports sensorial play with three stations using pretend snow , animals in an ice cube, and frozen ice on metal trays. Everyone had enjoyed trying our different stations and made sure to try all the activities. Our next week's topic will be about our Literacy Week: Famous stories and authors. Stay tuned for more fun and meaningful activities!

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.