HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2026-27: Week 20

Hello, Jungle Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

Another marvelous 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. As this week marked our Literacy week, we had a lot of engaging and meaningful activities as we explore our love for reading!
In the afternoon, we had our Show and Tell from our Red Group. They showed different things that remind them of the season autumn! Next week, it will be Blue group for our Show and Tell. We also had a meaningful afternoon as some of our Jungle parents came to visit us and read their favorite book.
Last, we ended our day by reading a storybook and singing a goodbye song.

Literacy Week

Story-Train Ride

What a wonderful train ride to open up our Literacy Week! As we gathered in the library, we talked about what would happen for our Literacy week and the activities in the big room.

Activities

Pre-K

Our week was filled with lots of stories and activities. These were the books that we read: The elves and The Shoemaker by Brothers Grimm, How to Catch A Star by Oliver Jeffers, The Dinosaur by Anna Milbourne, The Little Red Hen by Margot Semach. Here are the activities that we did: Make My Own 3D Slippers, Starry, Starry Crystal Star! and Space Headband,Dino Dig Excavating Time and Dinosaur Sculpture using clay, Pre-K Bake a Bread and our Izumi Field trip for Thursday.

Kinder

For Literacy Week we filled our time with an array of imaginative activities that not only deepened our love for reading but provided ample opportunity to develop our collaborative skills, literacy comprehension, and creative output. Moreover, through the many fun adventures we had, we deepened our bonds with each other. Prior to every activity we read books that helped set the tone and themes of said activity in order to provide deep immersion for everyone. Our Kinder students also showed confidence and bravely consistently throughout the week as they read for all of our younger classes every morning by themselves! We are so proud of everyone! Some activities we completed include: Hosting a puppet show, crafting mini witches and wizards, clay diorama solar systems, mini space rockets, going on fossil excavations, completing dinosaur puzzles, "I Love you to the Moon and Back" water color painting, and making a Stellaluna Bat toy.

Field Trip

Last Thursday, we had a wonderful time exploring at Izumi Library and Sweet Potato Harvesting. We dug and got sweet potatoes from our last planting time last term. Our Izumi librarian read a storybook and we made a frog craft. We also got to enjoy our playground. Truly fun-filled day!

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.