2022.11.15
(M) September Monthly Highlights Junior Kindy
Junior Kindy Monthly Highlights -- Mikuni Campus
August 2022
Theme:
From Pedaling to Flying
Goals:
From pedaling to flying
Children marvel at the great engineering work of humans and are encouraged and stimulated to use their own imagination and creativity, which help increase self-esteem.
Questions:
What are the different transportation that we marvel about? What do we want to know about them?
Who builds transportation? What tools did they use?
What is it made of?
What makes different kinds of transportation special?
Upcoming Events: October
3 Start of Fall Term 5 Teacher's Day 8 N/JK PTC 10 National Holiday 15 PRE/K PTC 12 Evacuation Drill 25 Halloween Party 30 Sports Day
October
| 3 | Start of Fall Term |
| 5 | Teacher's Day |
| 8 | N/JK PTC |
| 10 | National Holiday |
| 15 | PRE/K PTC |
| 12 | Evacuation Drill |
| 25 | Halloween Party |
| 30 | Sports Day |
Please bring PE clothes for class on Fridays.
Please bring wet tissues for Music Class Pianicas.
Please keep a full set of clothes including undergarments in students' cubby.
PA
For PA, we covered the lessons 33 and 34. For lesson 33, friends learned how to read and sound out IP and ILL word family words. For lesson 34, friends learned the Qu sound. In addition to those lessons, friends are learning about syllables. They learned that syllables are different than the number of letters in a word. For example, banana has 6 letters but only 3 syllables. For the PA lessons, students sing a song related to the lessons sound, practice blending the sounds, recognizing the sounds, and writing and reading the decodable words and books. There has also been a focus on spelling practice. There is also a focus on sight words, with new words being practiced every for each decodable lesson.
The songs we used for PA time are as follows:
Qu Word Song
Every Letter Has a Name and a Sound
Friends are also using Headsprout. Please use the app at home at your leisure to aid with reading progress.
Numeracy
Students learned about addition within ten. For example, 2+3=5 or 8+2=10.
Also, they had an introduction to place value. They learned about tens and ones. They learned that for every number, we can break it down into smaller parts. For example, 35 is three 10s and five 1s.
Craft
Airplane Craft- Friends used origami paper to fold, cut and glue different shapes to make an airplane.
Anna Pavlova Ballerina- Friends used scissors to make an origami snowflake that was used as the skirt for a ballerina.
Science Class
Morse Code- Friends used a Morse Code legend to transcribe and decode short messages in Morse Code. First, the class solved a sentence code. Then, they made their own code words. Then they played a game to try and solve the other students' codes.
Hand Crank Winch- Using string, a ribbon container, two plastic bottles, and other materials, students made a winch. With the use of this winch friends tried to lift many different sized objects to see what they could lift. The heavy objects were still hard to lift with the string, but the lighter objects could be picked up easily.
Handmade Paper-
Friends used recycled papers to make their own original paper. First, they ripped up the paper into small pieces. Then, they were soaked in water and formed into paper sheets.
Book of the Month
Exclamation Mark written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Rainbow Fish written by Marcus Pfister
Japanese Class
Friends are discussing the calendar, days of the week and months of the year as well as practicing writing hiragana and reading Japanese story books.
Physical Education
First they run and do stretching. Then they do the circuit.
サーキット
・マット（前転）→お腹を見て転がる、まっすぐ回る （開脚前転）→足を大きく開く、膝を伸ばす
・ブロック歩き→ブロックから落ちないように前向きで歩く
・フープ、印ジャンプ→フープや印をジャンプで前へリズムよく進んでいく
・跳び箱登り降り→跳び箱の上からジャンプして着地で立つ
・跳び箱（開脚跳び）→足をグーにして跳ぶ、お尻を上げる、着地で立つ
・鉄棒（足抜き回り、ツバメ前回り降り、逆上がり）→恐怖心を減らす、鉄棒を最後まで離さない
・トンネル→体を小さくして、中を早く通る
Music Class
Friends are starting to use the pianica. Learn how to use and how to clean up the keyboard harmonica. Make sure the prohibited matters to play the keyboard harmonica safely. This month they learned the notes Do, Re, and Mi.
For musical knowledge:
● Look at the various musical instruments cards and listen to their sound by keyboard.
● Learn the musical scale with the keyboard card.
● Learn the name of the notes and the length of the beats through the rhythm cards.
For musical appreciation:
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
If you’re happy
Lavender’s Blue
Row, Row, Row your boat
It’s a small world
Do-Re-Mi
Stroll etc.
☆Seasonal Japanese Songs :きらきら星 かえるのうた かたつむり 雨ふりくまの子 たなばたさま etc.
☆Classical Music : Turkish March (Mozart )
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
Air on G string (J.S. Bach)
Next Theme: Animals
Children acquire a further understanding of their own self by comparing themselves with animals, creatures that look different and behave differently from them.
In this unit we will answer the questions:
What can animals do?
Where do animals live in the world?
What do animals eat?
How do animals grow and reproduce?
Ms.Jessica