HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2026-27: Week 21

Hello, Desert Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

Another exciting week of learning has come to an end! Each morning, we sang our Hello Song, Weather Song, Months of the Year Song, and completed our calendar routine. The students also enjoyed taking on their classroom helper roles and participating in our daily movement songs. In the afternoon, we enjoyed story time together before ending each day with our Goodbye Song.

Language & Literacy

Preschool

This week in Language and Literacy, we learned and reviewed the letter sound u. We discussed words that begin with u as well as words that have the u sound in the middle. The students practiced forming the letter u using playdough by rolling it into shape and cutting it to the correct length with plastic scissors. They also practiced identifying beginning sounds and blending simple words through Four Corners and other listening games before practicing writing letters on small whiteboards. To finish the week, the students created a U is for Umbrella craft using handprints and strengthened their fine motor skills by using tweezers to place pom-poms along the shape of the letter u.

Maths

Preschool

This week, we continued learning about big, medium, and small. The students compared different-sized bowls, boxes, toy boxes, and leaves before sorting them into the correct size groups. They arranged toy boxes from biggest to smallest, sorted toys into big, medium, and small bowls, and created a leaf poster by grouping leaves according to their size. The students also completed a guided coloring activity by following size instructions, such as coloring the small umbrella or the big star.

Topic Exploration

This week's topic was Insects. The students learned about the relationship between insects and plants before creating colorful butterflies using tissue paper, pipe cleaners, and clothespins. We also explored the school grounds to look for insects and discovered spiders, grasshoppers, and a beetle larva. During Music, the students practiced rhythm using shakers while exploring ta (quarter notes) and ti-ti (paired eighth notes). They also sorted insect toys into flying and crawling groups while learning that some insects can also jump or move in more than one way.

100 Days of learning

This week, we celebrated 100 Days of Learning with a variety of fun activities alongside the other preschool classes. The students worked together to decorate a giant 100 using scrap materials left over from crafts and activities they had completed throughout their first 100 days of learning, creating a special piece that represented all they had learned and experienced together. They then took on our 100 Challenge, completing activities such as 10 star jumps, 10 frog jumps, 10 hops, 10 high fives, and 10 laps around the Big Room. To finish the celebration, the students created their own 100-shaped glasses, decorating them with colored pencils and crayons, before proudly wearing them for a class photo together.

Traffic Safety Seminar

This week, the students took part in a Traffic Safety Seminar led by visiting instructors. Through songs, a puppet show, demonstrations, and interactive activities, they learned important road safety rules, including how to stay safe as pedestrians, how to cross the road carefully, how to follow traffic signals, and the importance of wearing a seatbelt every time they travel in a car.

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.