Hello Aurora and Shooting Star families!

We have had another fun week at ISN!

This week, we started our second Unit of Inquiry Topic! For the next several months, we will be learning about many different kinds of animals. We will learn many things about animals, including the places they live, how we can help animals and how animals can help us.

今週からIBのレッスンはUnit２に入りました！数か月に渡り色んな動物について探究していきます。動物の種類、生息地、人との関係性、そして私たちはどのようにして動物を助けているか、そして助けられているかを話合い、理解を深めていきます。

Our first line of inquiry for this topic is “We share the world with animals”. For this line of inquiry, we will compare where humans and animals live by learning the habitats of a wide array of animals.

最初の テーマは “We share the world with animals” です。幅広い動物の生息地を学ぶことで、人と動物が住んでいる場所を比較します。

Starting off, we first learned the names of some animals that live in the ocean. Our teacher showed us some flashcards, and we practiced saying the names of the animals, as well as discussing if anyone had seen any of the animals before. We also had a discussion about whether we liked the animals or not, making sure to give our teacher reasons for our answers!

まず、海に生息する動物について学びました。フラッシュカードを見てその動物の名前を学び、今まで見た事があるか聞いたりもしました。そしてその動物が好きか嫌いかその後に、理由もしっかりも教えてくれましたね。

Once we had learned the names of several sea creatures, we worked on decorating our classroom with a large piece of blue paper, representing the ocean. As a class, we then drew many sea creatures on our ocean paper, using a mix of sea creatures we had just learned, as well as some animals we already knew from our experiences outside of school!

海に生息する動物の名前をしっかり学んだ後は、大きな海に見立てた大きな青い紙にみんなで海の動物の絵を描いていきました。描いてるうちに想像力が膨らみ、海の動物がその後どうなるかを想像してお魚料理の絵を描いてくれたお友達もいましたね。その後クラスの廊下に展示しました。これで暑い夏の日も少し涼しく感じれる事ができるかな？！

We will continue learning about a wide variety of animals, and doing many fun and interesting activities during this topic!

これからも色んな動物について探究し、楽しいアクティティをしていきたいと思います！

Thank you very much everyone, and see you again next time!

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