HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2026-27: Week 21

Hello, Jungle Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

We had another wondrous week filled with many fun and exciting adventures! We sang good morning songs , months of the year, seasons song, and weather songs. we followed this by hosting our calendar time, assigning class jobs, doing a movement song and sharing photos from our adventures outside of the classroom via Class Dojo.
We also welcomed some special visitors as we had a traffic safety seminar hosted by Sendai City Officials. We enjoyed a puppet show and applied what we learned in order to reenact safely crossing the street.

In the afternoon, we had our Show and Tell from our Blue Group. Next week, it will be Red group for our Show and Tell. We ended our days 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, "I Love the Earth" , 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 `ee` through Jolly classroom, Help Squirrel find Leaves for the TREE activity, Mystery bag, making a tree 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 "where "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, "Insect Wings". We also repurposed Koko's home as she will be joining us every week from now on in order to present and teach us a few new sight words every week. Throughout the week, we knocked on Koko's door and she handed us a note with a new sight word on it. We used those sight words to read sentences containing them, craft sentences, and complete related worksheets to solidify our understanding. We utilized Jollyphonics to practice punctuation rules. We also completed some crossword puzzles, practiced reading comprehension via reading sentences and matching the text to pictures. We concluded our week with working on new literacy booklets. We also spent time reading short stories from books found within our library.

Maths

Pre-K

This week, we started talking about Rational Numbers from 11 to 20 through Number Bonds. These are the activities that we did: we sang counting song by Super Simple Songs, using cubes to show number bonds e.g. 10 and 4 make 14, and a Choose a Number Activity for Number Bonds for mini assessment too. This will help the students visualize how teen numbers look like and to strengthen their counting techniques Then, we had continued doing our numeracy booklets to enhance our counting and number recognition. It was truly a memorable time learning Rational Numbers and Number Bonds with our friends!

Kinder

This week, we expanded on our past knowledge of numbers, size, and scale. We reviewed numbers 1-40, used our number blocks to craft number bonds, addition, and subtraction equations. We also used out number blocks to represent the size of various objects, discussing weight, length, and volume. To conclude our week we made cute 100-themed glasses in which we painted and assembled in celebration of our 100th day of school. We also practiced skip counting by 100 past the thousands!

Topic Exploration

For our Topic Exploration, we studied the relationship between insects, plants, and the foods we eat. We studied harmful and helpful insects, learned about the important role of pollinator insects and how these little critters contribute to the growth of all plants, ranging from the trees in our neighborhood, to the fruits and veggies we buy at the grocery store. We hosted an array of activities ranging from role playing bumble bees to spread pollen, catching and separating harmful and helpful insects into jars, and crafting bumble bees to collect pollen and spread it to flowers within our classroom in order to promote growth.

100th Day of School!

This Friday marked our 100th day of school! Thus, we welcomed our bright little learners in their wonderful costumes and hosted some exciting activities themed around the special occasion! We are truly so proud of how far everyone has come up to this point.

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.