{"id":287129,"date":"2025-08-02T14:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isnedu.org\/?post_type=nagano-campus&p=287129"},"modified":"2025-08-02T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T08:14:41","slug":"nagano-rainbow-nothing-but-fun-under-the-summer-sun-%f0%9f%8d%89%f0%9f%8c%bb-july-28th-august-1st","status":"publish","type":"nagano-campus","link":"https:\/\/isnedu.org\/en\/nagano-campus\/nagano-rainbow-nothing-but-fun-under-the-summer-sun-%f0%9f%8d%89%f0%9f%8c%bb-july-28th-august-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagano Rainbow – Nothing but Fun under the Summer Sun \ud83c\udf49\ud83c\udf3b (July 28th-August 1st)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello Everyone! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We kick-started Summer School 2025 with a blast. This week was loaded with fun, fun, fun. In Rainbow class we incorporated new activities in our play so kids would experience something different everyday. We sang and dance to new and old favorite songs. We tried some summer treats and played with summer toys. Checkout what fun we had this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Water play \/ Pool kids played with frozen sea animals \ud83e\udd76\ud83e\uddca. Everyone got busy fishing them out and naming them. We got octopus\ud83d\udc19, shark\ud83e\udd88, fish  \ud83d\udc20 and more. Then indoors we made our watermelon craft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Water play we filled the pool with colorful balls and kids happily collected them. They counted the balls, identified the colors and picked their favorite ones. They also enjoyed catching and popping bubbles\ud83e\udee7\ud83e\udee7 that were floating in the air. At the same time we took the kid’s foot prints for our Summer Sandals craft\ud83d\udc63. Indoors kids unwind playing with clay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 3 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday before heading to do water play \/ pool. We did some active play indoors, kids balanced on the beam and crawled under hoops that were propped on chairs. After all the fun indoors we headed to the pool and played with sea animals, the colorful balls and colorful, squishy water balloons that were in the pool. The water balloons were such a hit. \ud83c\udf88Then once inside the room kids wanted to play with clay and we also made our Ice cream craft. Kids had a blast stamping the ice cream using a potato.They stamped their favorite colors and flavors. We had chocolate, green tea, strawberry and mango flavored ice cream. Yummy! \ud83d\ude0b Too bad they weren\u2019t real ice cream. \ud83d\ude05\ud83c\udf66 but it was fun making them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual we went out to do water play. In the pool new toys were floating about, it was the alphabets! This time Kids went  \ud83d\udd20 ABC fishing. They excitedly showed teachers the letters that they got. Look it\u2019s an A or Z etc. learning while playing is the best activity for this tots. At the same time that day kids got water Yoyo\u2019s\ud83e\ude80. They played endlessly with the yoyo, pulling them up and down, washing them, throwing them, playing with the toy however they can and how they imagined. Once inside the room kids relaxed while playing with clay, At the same time kids finished off their summer sandals craft by placing the straps and their favorite stickers as an accent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Day 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Started the day with water play \/ pool outdoors. Indoors, since it\u2019s the last day, and after all the busyness and fun we had all week long. We wanted to chill. For down time we had film showing or movie time. We used the projector. We projected the show onto the white board for cinematic feel in the classroom. Kids were all smiles watching the movie about Patrick and friends, about bugs in a band playing, singing and dancing to music and about train with animals. Came lunch time we had some special treat\u2026we had watermelons \ud83c\udf49 for dessert. Then during our closing circle we excitedly played with balloons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whew! What a week full of fun! That\u2019s the first week of our summer school. We had new friends who joined us and we sadly had to say good bye to them. Some stayed for a week, some just a few days. We want to say thank you to our new friends and we will miss you, hope you visit and play with us again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are looking forward to next week and our next group of new friends who will be joining our 2nd week of summer fun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had an awesome week, Hope you have an even more awesome weekend. Keep Cool everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharing here the link of the videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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