CURRENT EVENTS

• 2025.03.07Today’s elephant class / Junior

  

  We had a very fun day with our Elephant friends! First, we had a morning meeting. Everyone did a great job and used their nice voices today. After that, we had an English activity. We saw some very funny fish — circle fish, square fish, and even triangle fish! We helped them return home safely and danced a super fun shape dance! We couldn’t stop singing, even at lunch! We sang “Baby Shark” several times. After we finished eating and cleaned up, we played with big blocks. We built very tall towers and even made a castle! We felt a little sad to go home, but we will meet again next week for more fun!

  

  今日の年少組はMojikazu Challengeを行いました。事前に忍くんからの手紙が届き、今日をとても楽しみにしていたお子さま達。忍くんから２つのChallengeの手紙を貰い、1つ目はたくさんの名前の中から自分の名前を書いた紙を探すというもの。たくさんのひらがなの書かれた名前の中から、真剣に自分の名前を探していました。2つ目のChallengeは〇☓ゲームでした。２つのひらがなの書かれたカードのどちらが合っているか考えて、カードの前に座ります。「ねこ」と「ぬこ」など、ちょっぴり難しい問題にも一生懸命考えながら選んでいました。そして最後には1年間たくさんの「もじやすうじ」に触れて楽しんだお子さま達に忍くんからのメダルのプレゼントを貰いました。みんなとても喜んで、それぞれのクラスで大切に受け取っていましたよ。

• 2025.03.06Today’s Elephant class/Intermediate

  

  It was a very fun day in the Elephant class! We had a fish party! But the fish didn’t have any costumes, so we helped them using our English skills. First, we chose a fish to help. They were all different shapes and colors! There were circle fish, square fish, and even triangle fish! We used our shape stickers to make them look beautiful for the party. Then, we danced a fun shape dance together! The fish were so happy! We also sang a birthday song for our friends born in March and played many fun games. Next time, we will have our Graduation Ceremony. Let’s do our best and show everything we’ve learned this year!

  今日の年中組は、今年度最後の文字かずChallengeを行いました。各クラスに文字かずレンジャーから手紙が届き、今日の日を楽しみにやる気満々だったお子さま達！！今回はいつもとはちがうNumber ChallengeとHiragana Challengeに挑戦しましたよ。１つ目のチャレンジは〇△☆などの様々な形のカードをひいて同じ形同士の友達で集まり、最後に何人集まっているかをグループのお子さま同士話し合い、人数を発表しました。２つ目のチャレンジは、同頭語と同尾語のゲームをしました。同じ文字で始まる絵が描かれたカードは同頭語のスペースに、最後が同じ文字で終わる絵が描かれたカードは同尾語のスペースに貼っていきました！勢いよくスタートし、すばやく選ぶ子もいれば、時間をかけて考える子、教師からヒントをもらいながら最後まで夢中になって頑張る姿がありました。あっという間にミッションをクリアして、最後に文字かずレンジャーからスペシャルな賞状が届きました！！各クラスに飾り、嬉しそうに眺めるお子さま達でした。

• 2025.03.05Today’s Class 9

  

  The Class 9 children had such a fun day doing so many interesting activities. First, we had cooking where the children all made fruit punch by cutting up fruit themselves. Next, we had an English Activity where the children built towers out of LEGO blocks and compared the sizes of real buildings from around the world like the Sky Tree and the Burj Khalifa. After that, the children did their best to practice playing the song “Rainbow” on handbells. They have gotten very good very quickly! Great job today, everyone, and let’s continue to enjoy the final weeks as seniors at IYK!

• 2025.03.04Today’s Class 2

  

  Today was so much fun in Class 2. We enjoyed playing a game for Phonics Time while we reviewed our vocabulary. After Phonics Time, we had Morning Meeting and Line Work. We practiced drawing lines for many shapes that we have learned such as circles and curved lines. We also went shopping today with the other Junior classes as well as the Preschool children. We bought many amazing things such as crepes, cameras, and animal masks. Everyone did such a great job today!

• 2025.03.03Senior & Class 1

  

  今日の年長組は、園生活最後の文字かずChallengeでした。先週の金曜日に先生たちからの挑戦状が届き、「今日の文字かずCallenge頑張るぞー！」と朝からやる気いっぱいで登園してきてくれたお子さま達。今回のチャレンジは、文字とかずのゲームをクリアして、小学校に行くためのパワーを満タンにする２つのチャレンジに挑みました。
  一つ目のチャレンジでは、大きな紙に書かれたマス計算をクラスのみんなの力を合わせて解くチャレンジでした。３学期にマス計算を取り組み始めたお子さま達。スラスラと解き進め、あっという間に全てのマスを埋めることができました。見事全問正解し、一つ目のチャレンジをクリアすることができました。
  二つ目のチャレンジは、文章を正しく読むチャレンジで、床に散りばめられたカードを拾い、教師の持っているイラストと自分のカードに書いてある文章を一致させるチャレンジでした。カードを拾うとあっという間に文章を読み、最後には大きな声でカードで文章を発表することができました。最後には全てのパワーが溜まり、小学校に行ける証明書をゲットすることができました。小学校でも諦めない気持ちを忘れずに、たくさんの文字やかずの問題にチャレンジしてくださいね！

  

  Today in Class 1, we had so much fun shopping! The Junior friends of IYK worked together with the Preschool friends to go shopping. Many of the Junior friends were shopkeepers while other Junior friends helped the Preschool friends to go to the shops. There were so many different shops! There was a juice shop, a mask shop, a crepe shop, an ice cream shop, a camera shop, and even a ghost shop. The children had so much fun spending their money out of the wallets they colored. They were so excited to get many things! Tomorrow, all of the shopkeeper friends from today will help another Preschool class do even more shopping. It will be so much fun!

• 2025.02.28Class 8

  

  Today in Class 8, we began and ended the day at the park. Today was a nice day to be outside and play. We then had graduation practice with the other Senior classes. Everyone did a great job! After graduation practice, we had several students present their storybooks, that they wrote, to the class. Before enjoying our yummy homemade lunch boxes, we practiced the hand bells. Great job today class 8.

• 2025.02.27Birthday Party in February

  

  今日は2月生まれのお誕生会でした！
  お誕生会の前に絵画コンクールで受賞したお子さまの表彰が行われました。
  みんなとても素敵な作品で、名前が呼ばれると嬉しそうにしていました。
  お誕生会では、年少組、年中組、年長組のお友達がそれぞれ名前と年齢を大きな声で言い、Birthday songを歌ってお友達からのプレゼントを受け取っていました。
  そして今日はSpecialゲストとして、みんなの大好きなリボンちゃんが遊びに来てくれました！
  リボンナポリンのクイズをしたり、お子さま達が楽しみにしていた「リボンちゃんダンス」を一緒に踊り、最後には幼稚園に時計のプレゼントと、お子さま達にはそれぞれリボンナポリンなどのプレゼントを貰いました！今回はラッシーの試飲もして、とても美味しかったので是非ご家庭でも作ってみてくださいね。

• 2025.02.26Today’s Class 7

  

  Today in Class 7 we began by a trip to the park. There was no new snow, but everyone had lots of fun building snowmen, igloo’s, caves and sliding on their sleds. The Senior children then got together to practice for the Graduation Ceremony next month. All of the children have been having fun practicing and have improved so quickly with what to do on their special day. We then thought long and hard about what everyone’s parents do for them everyday since they began kindergarten and we started to write ‘Thank you’ letters to the children’s parents. Let’s enjoy the last few weeks together Class 7!

• 2025.02.25Today’s Class 6

  

  Today in Class 6, we learned a lot of new things and had so much fun together! Our Teacher’s Assistants used big voices and spoke clearly during Morning Meeting. After that we learned about Japanese words that use the same hiragana such as ‘flower’ (はな) and ‘nose’ (はな) but have different kanji and slightly different pronunciations. It was so interesting! Next, we played a new game where we walk until the music stops and then quickly close our eyes and pretend to sleep. While we are ‘sleeping’, a teacher put a blanket over one friend. We opened our eyes and tried to guess who was under the blanket! Class 6 is very good at this game! English Activity was next, and we got to try a giant maze to learn where various foods come from. We did a great job getting to the middle of the maze! It was fun learning about all those different foods, too! We danced to a silly song called ‘Hot Potato’, ate a tasty lunch, played with our friends, and did the Goodbye Meeting. We had a blast at IYK today!

• 2025.02.21Today’s Class 5

  

  Class 5 had a fun filled day and enjoyed learning lots of English. First thing in the day, we practised our “tie a bow” exercise on our calendars. We are very good at tying bows now after practising every single day! Then we had E.C.T and got to talk about our favourite things. We have gotten really good at talking about what our favourite things are, such as colours, animals, characters and fruits. Learning to tie a bow also helped a lot of us with our next activity which was swimming. Now we can tie a bow with the drawstrings on our swimsuits! We had so much fun and we are getting very good at swimming on our own with water wings and using the floats to swim across the pool. After, we got to enjoy play time and a yummy lunch! It was a great way to end the week and we can’t wait to come back and have more fun learning English! Well done Class 5 and keep up the good work!