Hello everyone! みなさん、こんにちは！
We have had another fun filled week together here in Rainbow. We continued to learn about animals, made a zoo, fished for some ABC-fish, , played a lot outside in the nice weather and had fun with some indoor camping!
今週のRainbowもとっても楽しい1週間になりました。先週に引き続き、動物について学び、動物園づくりをし、釣りもして、室内屋外遊びを楽しみました。
ABC fishing
We sing the alphabet song every day, and focus on a few letters each month. This month we have been looking at the first four letters of the alphabet. To reinforce what we are learning, we did a fun alphabet fishing game. Each students got a chance to fish one of the letters, the match it to the same letter on the whiteboard.
毎日‘ABC song’を歌っています。これからはひと月に少しづつアルファベットを覚えていきます。今月はABCDです。復習を兼ねてアルファベットのついたお魚を釣って遊びました。ホワイトボードのアルファベットと同じletterのついているお魚を釣りました。
Crafts
This week, we made a big nice “Rainbow Zoo” poster together! We had a big poster of our own special Rainbow Zoo! The students got different animals that they could stick to the zoo. Just like a real zoo, ours also had different areas for the different animals. It was a lot of fun, but also a great chance to talk about the different animals again!
今週は大きな模造紙に ‘Rainbow Zoo’を作りました！ 動物のイラストの書いてある紙を両面テープで貼っていきました。本物の動物園のように、エリアごとに動物たちを貼って、動物の特徴などを話しながら製作を楽しみました。
Outside play
The weather is getting increasingly hotter outside now, so we are enjoying our days outside before it gets too hot outside! We also had a chance to play with one of the older classes this week! Playing outside is great for developing our young learners gross motor skills. One of the activities we did this week to help develop this skill was using a few tires for a small obstacle course. The students tried their best to walk through the tires that was placed on the ground.
気温が暑くなりすぎてお外で遊べなくなる前に、園庭遊びを楽しんでいます。今週はお姉さん、お兄さんクラスのお友達と一緒に遊ぶ機会がありました。砂場では大きなお友達はリードしてくれ、大きな穴を掘りました。タイヤの上を歩いたり、体をめいっぱい動かして遊びました！
Indoor camping
Our bus trip this week had to be canceled during the rain, but that didn’t stop us from having fun! We had a special day planned indoors. First, the teachers did a magic show for the kids. One of their favorite magic tricks was turning normal water into a different color just by shaking a bottle! Each student got a bottle of water. When they shook it, the water changed color!
バス遠足は残念なことに雨で中止になってしまいましたが、スペシャルな1日になりました。まずは担任によるマジックショー！針を刺しても割れない風船は、残念なことに破裂してしまいましたが、スプーン(おたま)曲げは大成功でした！子供たちは1番喜んでいたのはペットボトルのマジックです。1人１つ、お水の入ったペットボトルを持ち、勢いよく振ると…なっ、なんと透明だったはずのお水が赤、青、黄色などに変わりました！
After the show, we went to on a short indoor camping trip! We set up a couple of big tents and let the kids play around. We had book, balloons, and some toys. We also played music, so the kids could sing along if they wanted to. It was nice seeing everyone enjoying themselves so much!
マジックショーの後はインドアキャンピング！大きなテントを2つ設営してテントの中で読書をしたり、風船やおもちゃで遊びました！BGMはみんなが口ずさめる歌に⭐︎楽しそうにしている子供たちをみてとても幸せな気持ちになりました。
Finally, we ate our nice lunchboxes made by our lovely parents. The kids were so happy and proud to show off the food they brought to school. Thank you, parents, for making such wonderful lunchboxes!
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Thank you so much for reading, and see you again next week!
