HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2026-27: Week 22

Hello, Jungle Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

It was another fun week as we all returned to class full of enthusiasm and filled our time together with new and exciting adventures! Everyone displayed an abundance of joy and effort during our morning meetings, in which we sang, danced, reviewed days of the week and months of the year alongside daily weather, and discussed important upcoming dates. We also had an earthquake drill this week in which we reviewed safety protocal.

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, "The New Forest Path" , 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 `or` through Jolly classroom, Corn craft activity, and doing some related worksheets for review and mini assessment . We also learned a new sight word "find "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 read our assigned razkids book, visited Koko the Koala on a daily basis to receive our sight word of the day, and completed a few lessons in Jolly Phonics. During our Jolly Phonics lessons, we worked on handwriting, spelling, reading, and recognizing digraphs. We also sang our sight word of the day song, focusing on “she, he, that, and they”. We used these sight words in sentences we practiced writing in order to solidify our understanding of its application. To conclude our week we made a verb pie, where we crafted delicious and cute pies decorated with verbs that can be used when talking about pies, such as ,"eat, make, bake, cut, slice, smell, etc."

Maths

Pre-K

This week, we started talking about Number Bonds Up to 10 as an introduction to putting things together in a fun and engaging manner. These are the activities that we did: we sang Number Bonds song, using cubes to show number bonds e.g. 10 and 4 make 14, Number Bond Game in the big room, and a craft too. This will help the students to have strong foundation of quantity and addition, and to strengthen their counting techniques Then, we had continued doing our numeracy booklets to enhance our counting and number recognition. It was so wonderful how quickly they were able to grasp the lesson for just a short week!

Kinder

This week we focused on measuring objects with non standard units alongside working with numbers 1-40. We used number blocks to measure objects in our classroom and the height of all our friends. We recorded our measurements and used those numbers in addition and subtraction equations. We also completed a measuring activity in which we used a ruler made of gummy bears to measure varying sizes of caterpillars. Additionally, we implemented patterns into our lesson as we colored our ruler and the caterpillars using numerous pattern sequences such as ABAB, ABCABC, AABAAB, etc. We concluded our week by digging tunnels in our sand pit and measuring how deep we could dig!

Topic Exploration

Seasons are changing and our friends are growing too! For this week, we focused on autumn season and did a lot of meaningful activities. We had a brainstorming activity and asked our friends what they knew about autumn. Next, we had an autumn scavenger paired hunt activity at our playground. Then, we had a STEM activity wherein they built a tree using loose and recyclable materials like rolled boards, tissue rolls, in a group. Last, we read and watched a book entitled, "Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn" and made our our autumn magical wand using sticks wrapped with yarn and a fallen leaf that they collected! They were so focused making their wands as they strengthened their eye-hand coordination in this activity. In addition, we had a wonderful time listening and singing two songs entitled, "Autumn Song; The Mouse Lives In A Little Hole" for our Music time using scarves! Next week, we will be learning about "Healthy Living" with everyone.

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.