Today the Advanced Green class talked about the weather and the seasons. They identified what the weather is like in different types of places.During gym class, the children played “Banana Tag”. They had fun chasing and capturing their friends!As a part of the ESL lesson, the Advanced Purple class did a picture dictation. Their teacher described a picture and they had to illustrate it and compared their drawings.The Purple class talked about sports and athletics during their circle time lesson. They compared sports that they’ve played and talked about the appropriate seasons for each sport.As a part of their circle time lesson, the preschool classes reviewed the calendar. They recalled all of the months of the year.One of the writing lessons had the children practicing their numbers. They followed the guide in their books to complete the strokes.During the reading and writing period, the elementary students have been reading a series called “Why is it so?”. They’ve been using these book to practice their reading skills and learn fun facts about nature.The Math & Numbers lesson today continued to build on the concept of patterns. They made a growing pattern using lego blocks and tried to make their patterns longer.The preschool children practiced their colors today in circle time. They recalled them really well without any assistance.This week, the Advanced Green & Purple classes continued to practice the words to the song “Mama Mia”.One of today’s Kid’s Box book lessons focused on trips and holidays. The children enjoyed doing a word search to find their holiday vocabulary.In their writing books, some of the children practiced short words and sentences. Their teacher wrote the words on the board as an example, and they copied to motions in their books!The preschool students at the Takatsuki school also enjoyed the patterning activity. They used colorful blocks to make really long trains.
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