HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2025-26: Week 35

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.

In the afternoon, we continued our Term 3 Show and Tell this week about something warm/hot. It was wonderful that our friends' different objects and photos about something from our Winter from Blue group such as heat packs, woolly hats, hot chocolate and more. It was engaging and meaningful as we tried to guess what our friends brought/showed. Our friends were so curious and guessed a lot of warm -related objects. We ended our day by reading a storybook and singing a goodbye song.

Language & Literacy

Pre-K

For this week, we talked about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "Then and Now" and did a homophones worksheet related with Raz-Kids. We described the pictures and read aloud the words with everyone. Then, we learned a new phonics "er" through Jolly Classroom, made a flower craft through hand-painting and cutting the pictures that has the same sound craft, did a phonics worksheet, and an I SPY balloon game as a form of review for reading sight words.

Kinder

For this week, we talked about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "Five Seconds to Blastoff" and did a homophones worksheet related with Raz-Kids. We described the pictures and read aloud the words with everyone. Then, we learned a new phonics "pl" through singing a song, made a plant garden craft, did a pl worksheet, and a balloon game as a form of review for blending words and sight words.

Maths

Pre-K

For Week 35, we focused on understanding the concept of "greater than, less than, and equal to" (>, <, =), in order to better understand numbers, values, and separating/categorizing numbers. We learned about new strategies to identify numbers as greater than or less than by utilizing the famous, "alligator" method, which entails assigning a pictograph to the greater than and less than signs in the form of an open alligator mouth that will always be open towards the greater valued number as its hungry. We completed a number of crafts, assignments, and activities to accomplish our goals.

Kinder

For Week 35, we focused on place value addition, using units from ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands, to increase our aptitude for addition. We employed various strategies such as identifying place values prior to adding or subtracting number, to also using physical place values blocks to help visualize the values of the numbers presented to us. We completed numerous crafts, assignments, and interactive presentations throughout the week.

Topic Exploration

We focused our learning towards simple machines this week, which entailed studying, experimenting with, and crafting many types of simple machines such as inclined planes, scales, levers, and pulleys. We learned about how these devices not only affect our world, but how they're utilized in our everyday lives in the form of transportation, construction vehicles, public systems (such as ramps, escalators), etc. We had many discussions about the topic and made a number of crafts to allow plenty of opportunity for our Orcas to fully grasp how these machines work and what applications they potentially have.

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.