CURRENT EVENTS 2024

• 2024.02.21Immersion Day 4

  

  IYK enjoyed Immersion Day today! All of the children, from Classes 1 to 9, were divided into 6 teams led by an English Teacher. After having Discovery Time and a quick Morning Meeting in their teams, the children got ready to go to Kitakaze Park. In the park, everyone exercised in the snow to get warmed up, before enjoying 2 special English games. In the first game, the children helped feed 3 animals, a bear, a cat and a tiger. Children collected a colour ball each and fed them to the animal with the same coloured hat. The next game was the Polar Bear game. Children had to listen carefully to the instructions, “If you’re wearing black boots” or, “If you’re 4 years old” and then run away from the hungry bears! All of the children had so much fun together and helped each other to play the games. After returning to IYK, the children enjoyed lunch and Discovery Time in their teams before an English book and the days Goodbye Meeting. It was great to see all of the children talking, playing and helping each other. Well done everyone!

• 2024.02.20Today’s Class 2

  

  Class 2 had lots of fun today. After arriving in the morning, we had Discovery Time with Class 3. Then we cleaned up and got out the tables. The children put on their craft smocks and got their crayons so that they could draw faces and other details on their snowmen. We did the painting a few days ago. There were many cute and colourful snowmen. After Morning Meeting and ECT, “What’s your favourite animal?” we got ready for today’s main event. We had shopping with the Preschool children. We got the Pizza Shop and Fish Shop ready with many items put out. Half of the class were shopkeepers and half were customers. Everyone had fun using lots of English to get some cool items like maracas, ice cream, and magic wands. Soon it was time for lunch and Goodbye Meeting time. Thank you for a great day everyone. See you tomorrow!

• 2024.02.19Today’s Class 1

  

  Today in Class 1 we started off a great day by swimming in the nice, warm pool and practicing blowing bubbles out of our noses! Then during Discovery Time we worked on writing both our first and last names together. After Morning Meeting we did the final page in our Line Work book where we used all of the line drawing skills we’ve been working on to decorate a nice medal. Then after a yummy school lunch we picked out money that we’ll use when we go shopping with our Elephant Class friends tomorrow and Thursday! After we read a book it was time to say ‘see you’ and end our fun day together!

• 2024.02.16Open Class Junior

  

  Today the Class 1 children had so much fun showing their mommies and daddies the results of all their hard work during English Activities and Phonics this year! Everyone did a great job going shopping for shapes and putting them into Mr.Polar Bear’s Magic Machine so they could get out yummy foods! We also had fun helping the ABC train get back its letters so we could sing the ABC song!

  
  
  

  Today the Class 2 children had lots of fun getting yummy snacks with the help of Mr. Polar Bear’s Magic Machine. We have used the Magic Machine before, but it only gave us crazy foods! Mr. Polar Bear said that he had fixed it, and we needed the magic word too! Everyone did a great job being shopkeepers and customers, asking their friends, “Which do you like, rectangle or circle?” When everyone had their shapes, we put them in the Magic Machine and said the magic word, “Sim Sim Sala Bim!” and riceballs, pizza, sandwiches and hot dogs came out! After eating our food, we all danced to Mr. Polar Bear’s favourite song, then put the letters back on the ABC board before singing the ABC song. Thank you very much to all of the parents who could attend today. Your ongoing support means so much to us! Great job everyone!

  
  
  

  Today the Class 3 children did a fantastic job using English to get lots of yummy food from Mr. Polar Bear’s Magic Machine. Everyone was very excited that their Mummies would be coming today, and did so well using big, confident voices. We received a letter from Mr. Polar Bear, inviting us to his snack shop to get shapes for the Magic Machine. All the children were both shopkeepers and customer, and got their shapes from each other. When we had our shapes, we put them in the Magic Machine using the magic word “Sim Sim Sala Bim!” and out came some yummy foods. After singing and dancing together, the class put all of the letters back on the ABC board and sang the ABC song very nicely. We had so much fun today, and thank you very much to all of the parents who came today. We are so happy that you could see your children doing such a great job!

• 2024.02.15Open Class Intermediate

  

  Today was the Intermediate Open Class. Class 4 has had a lot of fun with Mr.Mayor over the past month. All the children were very excited to complete Mr.Mayors challenge and receive a present. We spelled words and got to ride a bus to Mr.Mayors town. In the town there were various problems the children had to solve and with everyone demonstrating good team-work the town was saved. Once again thank you to all the parents and family members who came to watch today.

  Class 5 had a ton of fun completing Mr. Mayor’s challenges in January & February. Everything they learnt from those challenges we put to good use in today’s English Activity. The children could work together to complete puzzles of jumbled up letters and spell words together. They also used a big voice and spoke a lot of English when helping to save Mr. Mayor’s town from the disasters! Class 5 children showed they could work together, have fun in English and make their biggest efforts to impress their Mums and Dads. Well done Class 5 and thank you to the parents that came to watch our class today.

  Today Class 6 had their Open Class. Class 6 children worked together and completed Mr. Mayor’s challenges in January and February and received a ticket to go to his city. In the Open C

  lass, they used what they learned from English Conversation Time and Phonics to talk about their favorite color and they were able to sound out letters and spell words. They saved the town by getting different jobs and chose the correct items to help Mr. Mayor solve the problems. I am so happy that Class 6 friends could use English in front of their parents. We hope you enjoy the senior medals. You did such a wonderful job Class 6! Thank you to all the parents and family members who came today.

• 2024.02.14Open Class 9

  

  Class 9 had so much fun during English Open Class today. All of the children did well working together and speaking English with their classmates. They could “go on a safari” and look for animals like the characters we used, the Safari Kids. They could see “herbivores” and even some “carnivores” to. In teams the children could describe what the saw by saying “It has a tail,” for example. Then they could say full sentences like “I can see a lion.” The could sing the “Safari Song” and run away from the carnivores too. After that, the children described the “crazy” animals they made in front of their parents. The Class 9 children have grown up so much and gain lots of confidence. We hope all the parents who came enjoyed seeing them have fun and speak English. Great job, Class 9 Safari Kids!

• 2024.02.13Open Class ~ Class 7, Class 8

  

  Today the Class 7 children did a tremendous job helping the Safari Kids to check if their animals are all happy. After taking a jeep to the safari, the children searched for animals with binoculars. Luckily, there were not too many carnivores to worry about and the children could identify many animals for the checklist. Everyone also did a fantastic job presenting the ‘crazy animals’ that they had made in their teams to scare away poachers. Everyone had lots of fun and could use clear, confident and loud voices in front of all the parents that came today. Thank you to all the Mummies and Daddies that came to support their children today. Well done everyone!

  
  
  

  Today the Class 8 friends did an amazing job during the open class and helped the Safari Kids one more time. The mission today was to check and to make sure that all the animals were safe and happy inside the Safari. After going through our animals checklist and identifying the herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, the children took a fun ride in the jeep to the safari. Then the children searched for animals with their super cool binoculars. After returning to the kindergarten, the children did a tremendous job presenting the crazy animals that they had made in a previous activity, to scare away the bad poachers. Everyone had so much fun today and the children did such an excellent job, speaking with big and confident voices. A big thank you to all the Mummies and Daddies that came today to show your support. Great job Class 8!

• 2024.02.09観劇　劇団風の子

  

  今日は劇団風の子さんが幼稚園に来て下さり、全園児で劇を見に行きました。「どんな劇なのかな？」と期待を膨らませながら会場に到着すると、登場した風の子さんが手遊びや枝笛を使った遊びを見せてくれ、お子さま達は大喜び。今日は、「ババヤガーのしろいとり」というお話を見せていただきました。ペープサートや演者さんの体で表現する楽しい劇にお子さま達は大興奮で演者さんの表情や動きを見て笑ったり、いろいろな道具を使った音を興味深く聞いていたりと、視覚や聴覚を使って楽しんでいました。観劇の後には「楽しかった！」という声が自然と聞こえてきた、今日の観劇でした。

• 2024.02.08Today’s Class 9

  

  今日も元気に登園してきたClass9のお子さま達。今日は、外遊びやピアノのレッスン、絵本製作やCraftなど、楽しい活動が盛りだくさんの１日でした。朝と帰りの発見活動の時間に行った北風公園では、山の上に米ぞりがよく滑るツルツルの雪があり、お子さま達は友達と手を繋いだり、一列に繋がって滑るなど、色々な滑り方を編み出していました。また、雪合戦や雪だるま作りなど、体を思い切り動かし大満足の様子でしたよ。
  お部屋では、オリジナル絵本を製作する絵本製作で、挿絵を考える活動を行いました。先週の活動で、７つの場面のストーリーを考えて、「楽しい物語ができた！」と、完成に近づくことを楽しみにしていたお子さま達は、場面ごとに登場人物がどのような表情をしているか、周りの景色はどのようなものかなど、イメージをどんどん膨らませていました。皆さんの豊かな発想力で、素敵な作品が出来上がりそうですね！
  また、温泉に入るみんなを作ったCraftでは、「あったかい温泉って気持ち良いよね！」とお風呂に入った時の気持ちを思い出しながら、製作していたお子さま達です。おにぎりCookingを楽しんだLunch timeも、とっても楽しかったですね！明日は劇団風の子さんが幼稚園に来て楽しい劇を鑑賞します。楽しみにしていてくださいね！

• 2024.02.07Today in Class 8

  

  Today was a lot of fun in Class 8! We went to play in the snow at Kitakaze Park and we had such a good time sliding down the hill. After getting back to the kindergarten, we started the Morning Meeting and we practiced this week’s target phrase during English Conversation Time. All the children could ask the question very nicely and they could answer using a big and clear voice. Then we made a beautiful Hinamatsuri craft using paper cups and origami papers. We followed the steps carefully and the dolls are really nice. After the craft, we worked on our storybooks and everyone enjoyed drawing some super colorful pictures. After that it was time to eat our yummy packed lunch and play a Karuta game. Then we practiced the graduation songs and we could sing them very well. After singing and the doing Goodbye Meeting, it was already time to go home. Great job today Class 8 and see you all soon!