HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2026-27: Week 19

Hello, Jungle Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

It was a delightful week to learn and grow again in school. We started singing good morning songs , months of the year, seasons song, and weather song. 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. Our little learners were certainly coping well and having a great time with their friends throughout the week! In addition, we also had our Flood Drill wherein we gathered at our playroom found in the second floor and talked about how to stay safe during a flood.
In the afternoon, we had our Show and Tell from our Blue Group. They showed their favorite vehicles like racing car, spaceship, car, and more! Next week, we will not have our Show and Tell. We will resume on the 28th instead given the long vacation ahead. Last, we ended our day by reading a storybook and singing a goodbye song.

Language & Literacy

Pre-K

This week, we kickstarted our lesson through lots of engaging and fun activities to review our phonics and sight word knowledge. First, we read our Raz-Kids book entitled, "Apple Tree" , talked about the pictures and the words in the book and did a related worksheet afterwards such as phonics. Then, we learned about our literacy lessons. These are the activities that we did: Jolly Phonics `ie` through Jolly classroom, interactive games, making a french fries craft through cutting pictures and writing the words, and doing some related worksheets for review and mini assessment . We also learned a new sight word "all "this week through a chant and did a sight word worksheet right and lastly we sang our favorite songs: matman, on, in, under , by and vowel songs. Last, we continued using our different booklets to hone our writing and reading or blending skills throughout this term. This booklet is individualized and self-paced activity wherein, once they finish it, hey move to next colored booklet like a "level-up game" for them to keep them motivated and challenged as well.

Kinder

This week, we hosted a ton of fun and engaging activities that provided us many creative opportunities and avenues to sharpen our literacy skills. We kick-started our week through reading our Razkids book, "Where plants grow". We discussed different habitats that host a variety of plants and identified adjectives along the way. We completed a diagram in which we wrote different habitats and drew corresponding pictures to visually articulate our findings from our reading. We also completed some crossword puzzles, practiced reading comprehension via reading sentences and matching the text to pictures. We concluded our week with a coloring activity that saw us color in patterns based on sight words that had a corresponding color. We spent time reading short stories from books found within our library. Each student got to pick their favorite story so they can spend the next week reading and getting familiar with the grammar, vocab, and structure of the story in order to read it for our pond, safari, desert, and Pre-K friends.

Maths

Pre-K

This week, we started talking about Patterns like ABAB, AABBAABB, and ABCABC. These are the activities that we did: we sang pattern movement song by Jack Hartman, making patterns using cubes, pattern painting, pattern game , , and some related worksheets for mini assessment too. To recap our weekly lesson, our friends made My Patterned Tie craft to show their own understanding about patterns. Then, we had continued doing our numeracy booklets to enhance our counting and number recognition. It was truly a memorable time learning Patterns with our friends!

Kinder

For Week 19 we expanded on our past knowledge of patterns by studying new pattern combinations past our previously studied ABAB, AABB, and ABC patterns sequences. For instance, we became fond of the pattern sequence ABAC, ABCD, ABBC, and ABBA. We sang some pattern-related songs, played rhythm-based games that required us to jump/dance on beat alongside a pattern sequence, built our own patterns, and completed predetermined sequences. To conclude our week we made cute bears which gave us the opportunity to craft colorful sweaters for it involving patterns.

Topic Exploration

For this week, we talked about how seeds and plants grow and what do they need. On our first day, we planted some soybean seeds in our pots in our mini garden at school. Next, we had explored on different things as planting medium for our soybean. We wondered if seeds will grow in paper, marbles and water, oil, and paint. IN addition, we also had also a plant painting activity and a fun STEM: I Can Eat A Whole Plant wherein, students try to guess and feel the plant inside the box and discover that each plant can be eaten like carrots as roots, stems and leaves for spinach, broccoli for flower, and pumpkin for seeds too! For Music time, we followed a rhythm and beat of a fruit song to enhance our listening skills too. Next week, we will continue talking about Trees.

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.