HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2025-26: Week 36

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. This week too, we had our Earthquake drill for this term and our friends knew what to do upon hearing the alarm. We immediately evacuated to the first floor and had a recap with our principal for the do's and dont's.

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 Red group. 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 through reading a storybook and singing a goodbye song.

Language & Literacy

Pre-K

For this week, we talked about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "I Want To Be A Cat" and did a comprehension worksheet related with Raz-Kids. We described the pictures and read aloud the words with everyone. Then, we learned a new phonics "ar" through Jolly Classroom, made a star craft through cutting the pictures that has the same sound, did a phonics worksheet, and a Pat-A-Word game as a form of review for reading sight words.

Kinder

For this week, we talked about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "The Brothers G" 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 "sl" through singing a song, made a slipper craft through 3colored pattern, did a sl worksheet, and a balloon game as a form of review for blending words and sight words.

Maths

Pre-K

For this week, Pre-K focused on developing their subtraction skills. We introduced the topic on Monday through a interactive presentation and video that we revisited throughout the week to really hone our understanding of the topic. We applied the strategies we learned about in order to complete various crafts, worksheets, and activities. As most of our learners are new to subtraction we mostly focused on utilizing digits 1-10.

Kinder

For Week 36, Kinder focused on developing their subtractions skills with digits exceeding 10, up to 100. We utilized a handful of interactive presentations and videos to introduce a few strategies to give our Orcas options as to how they can most comfortably solve subtraction problems. We applied the strategies we learned about in order to complete various crafts, worksheets, and activities.

Topic Exploration

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.