HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2025-26: Week 39

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 addition, we also had our class photoshoot las Thursday for Orca friends. This Friday, 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. For Kinder friends, we went to Sendai Astronomical Observatory and explored various exhibitions too. What a fun and meaningful week!

In the afternoon, we continued our Term 3 Show and Tell this week about someone who they love. It was wonderful that our friends' different photos like their friends, families and even pets 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 like why they chose it or asking about its shape and size. We ended our day through reading a storybook and singing a goodbye song. Next week, it will be their favorite toy to show our differences among our friends.

Language & Literacy

Pre-K

For this week, we talked about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "We Make Good Choices" 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 "an" through song and a story, made a word family wheel craft through to practice blending and sounding out the words, did a phonics worksheet, and our CVC booklets to hone reading fluency and spelling.

Kinder

For this week, we talked about our Raz-Kids book entitled, "Zots Learns To Play" 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 "gl" through singing a song, did a gl worksheet, and had a consonant blend "Press the button Game" as a form of review wherein the students listen and look at the pictures and choose the beginning consonant blend.

Maths

Pre-K

For Week 39 we focused our attention towards refining our addition and subtraction skills by completing interactive workbooks, crafts, playing games, and building our own personal math journals, all of which were filled with addition and subtraction problems with number exceeding 20 by the end of the week.

Kinder

This week we really concentrated on honing our addition and subtraction skills by working with double digit numbers, learning new strategies to help us more efficiently solve problems (such as the two-digit column non-regrouping strategy), and applying those strategies to the various worksheets, booklets, and crafts we made.

Topic Exploration

This week, we learned about "Caring for Friends" through reading famous stories like "have You Filled A Bucket Today?" and "Words Are Not for Hurting". We made our pretend buckets using paper cups and fuzzy wires , a friendship sun catcher, a paper doll puppet. Then, for our Music time, we listened to a song and followed beat and rhythm using balls as props.

Kinder Field Trip to Planetarium

To continue supporting our Kinder students' growth and curiosity for learning, we went to Sendai Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium and had a meaningful and interactive time to explore various exhibitions. They expore different topics such as gravity, light, space and more. We even saw a huge Hiromi-san telescope and was able to experience a one of a kind planetarium in an enclosed dome! Our students were so engaged to learning about astronomy and space! Truly, it was a memorable and meaningful excursion!

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.