Hi everyone! This week’s highlight was the park play date we had with Aurora class and Shooting star class. The three classes went to Nanbu park together and picked up acorns in small groups. It was a great experience for everyone to grow socially by playing with students from different classes and people of various age-groups.

The next best thing about our week was painting the school gate together as a class. There’s still half a year left until we say goodbye to preschool, but doing something special for our school that others left us feeling sentimental and somewhat emotional.This is our farewell gift to Minami campus.We hope everyone who passes by these gates will have their mood uplifted by the bright and warm colors！🎀

Last week’s rice harvesting field trip was an educational and fun-filled one. Everyone listened to Mr.Koyama explain how to cut the rice stalks and gather them in bunches. They then went to work with the assistance from the adults who were there. This experience helped them appreciate just how hard farmers work to put rice on consumers’ tables. They learnt that after the rice is removed from the nodes by a special machine, the remaining stems are left to dry and then used as manure for the next planting season!

~The week ahead~

Next week most of our time will be dedicated to getting acquainted with unit 3’s new topic of inquiry. We will do a variety of activities that will check the students’ background knowledge regarding the topic. The autumn bus trip also awaits us ,so we pray for good weather and hope to enjoy ourselves to the maximum as it will be our last bus trip as preschoolers.

Thank you for reading this week’s blog. Have a nice weekend!