HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2026-27: Week 23

Hello, Desert Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

Another exciting week of learning has come to an end! Each morning, we began our day by singing our Hello Song, Weather Song, Days of the Week Song, and completing our calendar routine together. The students enjoyed taking on their classroom helper roles, reviewing our class rules, practicing our phrase of the week, and joining in with movement songs to start the day. In the afternoon, we enjoyed Show and Tell, story time, and ended each day by singing our Goodbye Song together.

Language & Literacy

Preschool

This week, we learned the letter sound f through a variety of activities. The students formed the letter f using playdough, rolling it into shape and cutting it to the correct length with plastic scissors. They also created a colorful F is for Foil craft using construction paper and flower paper before playing an I Spy game, searching around the classroom for pictures beginning with the f sound. Throughout the week, the students practiced recognizing words beginning with f, strengthened their beginning sound awareness, and completed an initial sound coloring worksheet.

Maths

Preschool

This week in Math, we continued exploring the concept of capacity. The students compared different containers to discover which could hold the most before experimenting with kinetic sand, colored water, colored sand, and pom-poms to investigate the concepts of empty, half full, full, and which container holds more. As a class, we sorted containers according to their capacity, filled containers to different levels, and completed worksheets together by identifying and comparing the capacity of different containers. These activities helped strengthen the students' mathematical vocabulary while developing their observation and comparison skills.

Topic Exploration

This week's topic was Community Helpers. Throughout the week, the students explored a variety of important jobs within our community through imaginative play and hands-on activities.

During role play, the classroom transformed into a doctor's office, where the students enjoyed caring for their patients using medical tools and learning about how doctors help keep us healthy. They also became firefighters, using spray bottles to put out pretend fires by knocking down cup towers, before working together like construction workers to complete STEM building challenges. To finish the week, the students created their own police officer craft while learning how police officers help keep our communities safe.

These activities encouraged communication, teamwork, creativity, and a greater appreciation for the many people who help us every 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.