We have been making great progress on our class art project! Every day we will add more colorful “leaves” using our fingers until our tree is complete. I’ve also started the BBs…

Earlier this month we spent a lot if time preparing for sports day. This week, we finally started one of our big art projects of the year. We are making Paper Mache…

This week we had fun learning about sound by using different music instruments. We played with wood blocks, cymbals, and triangles. The students played “loud” and “quiet”, as well as ‘hard’ and…

We went to Ichinomiya Tower Park with the Bumblebees on their first all-day field trip. The students had fun playing on the jungle-gym, running through the grass, and playing with the giant…

We’ve started the first few pages of our next workbook! Over the next few months we’ll be focused on letter tracing and identifying letters in simple words. They are also improving on…

Bumblebees were happy to get back to school and see their friends! The students were excited to share pictures from their vacation. We also made bracelets and practiced matching with “finger glue”.…

It was the Bumblebee’s turn this week to pick vegetables from our garden. We have peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes. Due to the hot weather, we weren’t able to play outside very much.…

We tried out some new Tangram cards this week and the students had a ton of fun! I was very impressed with their ability to match some of the basic shapes. Alphabet…

This week in Bumblee A class I introduced the students to working through different puzzles together. They really enjoyed showing me the different characters from Anpanman while we figured out where each…

Our Bumblebee classes had their first two pool days this week! The students had a lot of fun splashing around with their friends from both classes. I also introduced some Tangram challenges…