We are going to paint the dollhouse in our backyard! Step 1: Cleaning the Dollhouse We used High Pressure Washing Machine to clean the dollhouse. In order to use the machine safely and properly, we got guidance from the Fire Fighter. Important Safety Tips: *NEVER face the machine to your friends!! *NEVER touch the water spouting out from the machine!! *Make sure nobody is around!! Now let&rs
What better way than with Ms. Toko, a professional singer! Children are learning English pronunciation and speaking! The language focus was how to make comparisons. Mr. Nate’s science! Learning how humans hear sound. Takoyaki party on the last day!!! Students took turns cooking the takoya
Combining science and English language instruction, this summer school was very exciting for the children and teachers. The focus was on how sound is produced, how it travels, how we hear it, and what we hear. In addition to instruction, children created their own kazoos, string-cup telephone, and musical instrument. They spent time practicing with their instruments, which
Children played the violin and sang songs from “The Lion King”. We are very proud of their great performance! Bravo!!! Have a great summer everyone!!!
June was another eventful month at KYIS! On the first week of June we harvested plums from the tree in our yard and made plum juice. We are very excited to taste it!! On the second week we dyed t-shirts and made original t-shirts! Each t-shirt came out differently. We will wear these when we go on a field trip. Everybody enjoyed all the processes of making t-shirts. &nbs
We had Children’s day and Mother’s day in May. For Children’s day, children enjoyed making paper carp streamers by dyeing papers with the colors they like. All the carp streamers came out very beautifully. For Mother’s day, they made lovely “Thank you” cards to moms.
In Kamakurayama International School, children choose and decide which work they want to do by themselves. All instructions and works are done in English. Children grow and develop their new abilities everyday in their daily Montessori, music, art, and language activities.
Everyone performed Sound of Music on the graduation day in March very successfully! Now we are practicing Lion King musical after we watched the movie. Children will be performing it at the end of this semester! The musical will feature singing, dancing, and viollin and cello performances.
We went on a field trip to Hiromachi（広町緑地.) We enjoyed walking the hiking trail and playing and picnicking at the field! All the children walked all the way to Hiromachi, and walked all the way back to the school. Great job, everyone!!
We did mamemaki for Setsubun today. Everyone made their own devil masks and wore them.
