HJIS Sendai Aoba Class Blogs 2026-27: Week 25

Hello, Jungle Class families!

Morning & Afternoon Meeting

It was another blissful week as we made many new, exciting memories! We started each day with bright smiles, colorful conversations, and an abundance of effort in our morning meetings. We are so proud of our little learner's growth, especially in regards to their problem solving skills, overall communication, and kindness towards each other.
In the afternoon, we had our Show and Tell from our Red Group. They showed things that they got from around the world, ranging from Japan to Australia, America, and more! We continued practicing our dances for our upcoming Celebration of Learning! Next week, we will take a break from show and tell presentations as it will be a short week. We will host booths at Izumi's ICF event on Saturday! We can't wait to have everyone join us for a fun activities! Last, we ended our day 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, "Fun with paper" , 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 `ng` through Jolly classroom, interactive games, making a butterfly wings craft through decorating and spraying water with spray bottles, and doing some related worksheets for review and mini assessment . We also learned a new sight word "funny" 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. We also used this time to rehearse for our COL.

Kinder

This week we started every lesson with a new sight word of the day, presented by our dear friend Koko the Koala. We used our sight word in crafting sentences and in our lessons via additional worksheets that allowed us to refine our handwriting skills. We also hosted group activities all week as we did every lesson this week in a group setting, working alongside each other as we read, discussed the stories we read, and identified nouns, verbs, digraphs, sight words, and adjectives. We completed a number of fun activities and crafts to test our comprehension skills. Some of the sight words we covered consisted of, "there, out, be, have, and am". Additionally, we emphasized phonics, as we covered Sh and ck sounds. We made large scale posters in which we wrote numerous words containing our phonics and colored matching pictures. We also worked through our Jolly phonics lessons, where we played matching games, crafted sentences, corrected sentences by editing punctuation errors, and more!

Maths

Pre-K

This week, we started talking about Measurement in 3D Shapes including Rectangular Prism and Pyramid. It was their first time to learn about pyramid that we even incorporated exploring about Pyramids in Egypt! They were so curious about the trivias about how it was built and what can be found inside. These are the activities that we did: we sang 3D shapes song, searched for things with 3D shapes in our environment for exploration, 2-Day Making and Building 3D Shpae Robot through our collaborative group, and some related worksheets for mini assessment too. Then, we had continued doing our numeracy booklets to enhance our counting and number recognition. It was truly a memorable time learning 3D shapes with our friends!

Kinder

For Week 25 we shifted our focus to 3D shapes and measuring weight. We worked with scales and tested a number of objects, understanding that size does not necessarily correlate to an objects weight as some smaller objects we tested were heavier than larger objects. We hosted a number of games and crafts to enrich our learning, such as making a headband with objects posted in lightest to heaviest on a scale in the middle of the headband. We worked in groups to solve 3D shape-based puzzles and sorted everyday objects and locations into corresponding shapes. We covered spheres, pyramids, cones, rectangular prisms, cubes, and cylinders. We also learned some fun and catchy songs to match our math topics, like "ShaaAAAAaapes, 3D shaaaAAAaapes, i got cube, cone, sphere, and cylinder! CUBE, CONE, SPHERE, and CYLINDER!!!!"🎶🎤

Topic Exploration

This week, we started talking about Around The World. First, we talked about how unique and different we are from each other and the other children around the world. This teaches them the value of respecting and understanding diversity and cultural differences. They were even surprised that some children have different colors of hair and other physical attributes; and mostly curious about some children who use different machines to walk and stand. Also, we learned about the different continents of the world and the animals that live on it. We did a lot of collaborative activities such as making a huge earth artwork with drawn pictures around it, animals around the world, and made a maracas as a musical instrument for our Music time. Last, we had different teacher-visitors throughout the week and learned about their country. Learning about the other people outside in our own environment does not only teaches them about its facts, but also has a deepened awareness and appreciation of our similarities and differences.

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.