CURRENT EVENTS 2025

• 2025.05.16Today’s Class 2

  

  Today in Class 2 was lots of fun. We had ECT and Phonics Time this morning where we practiced talking about what we ate for breakfast and practiced identifying and matching some of the lowercase letters. We had Morning Meeting, took attendance, and then did an English Activity where we worked hard to find Polar Bear’s animal friends hiding in the jungle. We did a good job using lots of English today, and we had so much fun playing games and learning with our friends. Great job today, everyone!

• 2025.05.15Today’s Elephant Class

  

  Today in Elephant Class we had lots of fun practicing talking about the weather. The children could try to say phrases like “It’s sunny,” and “It’s cloudy.” During the English activity, our friend, Ducky went the park but then some big clouds came and made it super cloudy and cold. Mr. Sun came out and tried to make it sunny. He asked for the children’s help, and everyone got sunny headbands and we pretended to use sunny power. Lastly, we danced to “Everyday’s a Beautiful Day.” Great job today to all the children and parents!

• 2025.05.14Today’s Class 3!

  

  Today in Class 3 we had a super-fun half-day! We cleaned up early and headed to the park to play with Class 5! We had a great time playing chase, tag, picking dandelions and making a ‘BBQ’ together! We then went back inside to do our daily ‘Tie a Bow Challenge’ before having our Morning Meeting and then a music lesson with Masami-sensei. We each got handbells and practiced playing together and using teamwork to play a song in order! It was so much fun! Well done everyone and see you all tomorrow!

• 2025.05.13Today’s Class 1

  

  Class 1 had lots of fun today. It was our first swimming lesson, and everyone did such a fantastic job. After cleaning up, we sat in a circle with our pool bags, and everyone was able to follow instructions to get ready. We started with taking off our shoes, and all the way to carrying our bags downstairs and rolling up our towels. A few friends were a bit nervous about going in the pool, but once we started, everyone had fun splashing and walking in the water. At the end, we put on water wings and floated around with the teachers’ help. All of the children did a great job getting dressed by themselves as well. When we got back to the classroom, it was time for World Lunch. Today was the USA, and everyone enjoyed their yummy hamburgers. After cleaning up and brushing our teeth, we had a bit more Discovery Time before it was time to say goodbye to everyone! See you tomorrow, Class 1!

• 2025.05.12Today’s Intermediate

  

  　今日は年中組に進級して初めての体育教室が行われました。まず初めに、ゆうか先生の真似をしながらしっかり準備運動を行い、両足をしっかり揃えて跳ぶウサギジャンプや、手足をしっかり伸ばして手の力で体を支えて歩くクマ歩きで、体の使い方やバランスを意識しながらウォーミングアップをしましたよ。そしていよいよ、マットの上でのでんぐり返し（前転）と跳び箱よじ登りジャンプに挑戦！クマ歩きの姿勢になり、しっかり頭を丸めて後頭部をマットにつけ、手の力で体を支えながら回転する動作は、予想外の方向に転がってしまったりバランスを崩してしまうこともありましたが、繰り返し取り組むうちに真っすぐ回転することができるようになりました。また、跳び箱の高い位置から勇気を出して元気よくジャンプするなど、一人ひとりが最後まで諦めることなく一生懸命取り組む姿が見られました。最後に、ゆうか先生と一緒にハイタッチ鬼ごっこをして「誰か助けて～！」「きゃー！逃げろー！」と大盛り上がりのお子さま達。運動活動の正しい姿勢や体を動かすことの楽しさを味わい、達成感でいっぱいのお子さま達でした。

• 2025.05.09Today’s Elephant Class

  

  Today in Elephant Class, we had so much fun doing physical activity and spoke lots of English. Everyone got binoculars and went looking for animals. We could find a rabbit, an alligator, and a monkey. We did a physical activity like each animal, hopping like rabbits, making big alligator mouths with are hands, and climbing up stairs to go down a slide like monkeys. It was so much fun! We saw lots of smiles, and heard lots of English. Children tried saying phrases like “It’s a monkey,” and “Banana, please!” Have a wonderful weekend and see you all next Monday. Our next lesson will include a music activity.

• 2025.05.08Today’s Class 6

  

  “Today in Class 6, we went outside for the first time this year. It was such a nice day for everyone to run around and stretch our legs. We had so much fun playing outside. After our morning meeting, we then did an ECT Activity. Everyone did a great job using the language from our English Activity yesterday to ask and answer ‘How endangered is it’. We then had a Music Lesson and our first English Writing lesson of the year. Before eating our yummy lunch, we did a Butterfly craft activity. Everyone did a great job painting their butterflies. Today was a busy day full of fun activities. Let’s have more fun together tomorrow! Great job Class 6!

• 2025.05.07Bear Class Opening Ceremony

  

  Bear Class had our Opening Ceremony today, and we are so happy to meet all of our new friends. Some children were shy at first, but we could enjoy play time, a Morning Meeting, and a mini-activity together. We also did a dance and made new friends named Ducky and Mommy Bunny. Let’s play with them more next week! Thank you to the parents for coming today. Thank you also for your kind encouragement and participation. We look forward to speaking lots of English with you as well. See you all next week!

• 2025.05.02Today’s Class 5

  

  Today in Class 5 we had a bubbly, colorful day filled with creativity and tasty treats! During Art Time, we brought out our paints and used our brushes to create beautiful circular bubbles on our papers. The children got to choose 3 colors each for their bubbles, and their finished art looked so bright and cheerful! It was a great way to practice gentle brush control and express our imaginations. After all that painting fun, we enjoyed a delicious lunch of warm salt ramen. It was so yummy and comforting, perfect after a busy morning. Great job today, Class 5 — we can’t wait for more fun after the holidays!

• 2025.05.01Today’s Class 4

  

  Today in Class 4, we had a day full of new activities and fun exercise! We have been working so hard to level up to Intermediate style, and that includes some new, cool daily activities like tie a bow challenge. Everyone also did a great job practicing writing their names nicely! Next we took an exercise break and had our first jump rope challenge. We learned how to hold the jump rope, how to rotate it in the air like a helicopter, and we did some super fun stretches with them. After that, we showed off how much we know about numbers! Class 4 did such a fantastic job counting and writing some numbers on their own. We are starting to master the Intermediate style– we can’t wait to make our new Teacher’s Assistant cards and see how much we have grown during body measurement tomorrow. Awesome job today, Class 4!