HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2025-26: Week 31

Hello, Orca Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

Our morning meetings this week were truly engaging and 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. Next Thursday, it will be Winter Pajama Party. We are so excited to have a wonderful end of the school year filled with laughter and gratitude. This week too, we had an Earthquake drill at school to help them prepare mindfully in case of a disaster.

In the afternoon, we continued our Term 2 Show and Tell this week. It was wonderful that our friends' different objects and photos about something from our Winter from Red group. It was engaging and meaningful as we tried to guess what our friends brought/showed. Our friends even asked a lot of question such as the shape, color, size, and if it can be eaten or not. Next week , it will be still be about anything from Winter from Blue group. We ended our day through reading a storybook and singing a goodbye song.

Language & Literacy

Pre-K

Last week, we read, "I Read a Book " and focused on "ou" phonics sounds through Jolly Classroom. Since it was our COL week too, we used this time to practice for our play specifically expressing our lines.

For this week, we talked about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "My Pet Dinosaur". We described the pictures and read aloud the words with everyone. Then, we did some "oi" phonics through Jolly Classroom, and related worksheets and games and continuously singing our phonics song and vowels song to enhance our phonics recognition. In addition, we did a roll and dice 'oi' game to enhance our reading fluency by the end of the week.

Kinder

Last week, we read, "At the Library " and focused on "er" phonics sounds through Jolly Classroom. Since it was our COL week too, we used this time to practice for our play specifically expressing our lines.

To jumpstart our Literacy time , we talked about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "Many Kinds of Dinosaur". To enhance our understanding, we did some "ar" phonics, a jar of ar matching words craft, ar maze and related worksheets.

Maths

Pre-K

For Week 31, the Pre-K students continued to learn about 3D shapes. We primarily focused on associating real objects with 3D shapes, such as a birthday hat usually being coned-shaped, or a sports ball being a sphere. We also started learning about prisms/cuboids, learning the difference between cubes and prisms/cuboids. We enriched our studies with many crafts, coloring activities, and active discussions in which the students displayed their knowledge in front of their peers.

Kinder

For Week 31, Kinder students learned about 3D shapes and reviewed previously discussed 2D shapes. We focused on more intricate 2D shapes such as hexagons, pentagons, kites, octagons, etc. We delved into the characteristics of each shape such as learning the amount of sides and angles each of these shapes have. In regards to 3D shapes, we discussed different types of cuboids/prisms and pyramids. We hosted an array of activities, crafts, and group discussions to enhance our studies.

Topic Exploration

Last week, we briefly continued talking about animal products through a craft as a review. Then, we proceeded with Dinosaurs wherein they do not only engaged with learning about Prehistoric animals but also various activities to hone their motor coordination.

We talked about Space throughout the week from singing songs about space and solar system, drawing and naming our very own planet, making a pretend comet, a solar system craft which they loved the most as they learned different planets, and an open-ended drawing activity wherein they get to choose and draw which part of the space do they want to visit. Learning about space has been interesting for our students as they are exposed with new vocabulary words too! Next week, it will be about Winter Wonderland as we conclude our Term 2.

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.