HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2026-27: Week 19

Hello, Desert Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

During our morning meetings, we sang our Hello Song, Weather Song, and days of the week Song. The students continued taking on their classroom helper roles, including, water bottle helper, calendar helper, weather helper, line leader, and lunch helper. We also reviewed our classroom rules and routines and enjoyed singing many of our favorite songs together. The students continued with our Show and Tell presentations, confidently sharing their favorite vehicles with the class. They practiced speaking in English while their classmates listened carefully, asked questions, and encouraged one another. During our afternoon meetings, we read Jack and the Beanstalk and Peep Inside: The Garden before ending each day by singing our Goodbye Song.

Language & Literacy

Preschool

This week in Language & Literacy, we began learning Jolly Phonics Group 3 (g, o, u, l, f, b) by focusing on the letter sound g. The students played a variety of games to practice identifying words that begin with the g sound, including a sorting game, a mystery box activity where they felt objects beginning with g, and an action pose game where they guessed whether hidden objects started with the g sound. They also created a G is for Googly Eyes craft by peeling and sticking googly eye stickers onto the letter g, strengthening their fine motor skills. To finish the week, the students completed a color-by-letter-sound activity by identifying pictures that begin with the g sound and coloring them.

Maths

Preschool

This week in Math, we continued exploring long and short while introducing non-standard units of measurement. The students measured how far pom-poms traveled using a popsicle stick catapult and a long stick as their measuring tool. They measured their hands and feet using blocks before sorting objects into long and short groups. The students also measured classroom toys using MathLink Cubes and counted how many cubes long each object was. They measured pictures using cubes before working together to measure each other's height using magnetic tiles. Measuring their own heights was a favorite activity, and the students were excited to compare how many tiles tall everyone was.

Topic Exploration

This week, our Topic Exploration theme was All About Life Cycles: Seeds. The students learned about the life cycle of a seed by creating life cycle dioramas and planting their own bean seeds after reading Jack and the Beanstalk. During our Science activities, the students learned about seed dispersal by observing a variety of seeds, including edamame beans, clover, acorns, tomato seeds, apples, and wild grass. They experimented with a fan to see how wind helps spread some seeds and learned that seeds can also travel by water or be spread by animals. The students also explored the different parts of a plant by observing the roots, stem, leaves, flower, and fruit. They learned how bees travel from flower to flower and help plants produce fruit. Looking closely at a real plant helped the students connect what they were learning to the world around them. During Music, the students learned about pan flutes and how they make sound. They created their own pan flutes using straws and popsicle sticks before experimenting with blowing through the straws to hear how different straw lengths produce different sounds.

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.