I hope you enjoyed the long weekend. This week is Teacher Appreciation week so I would like you to create a project to say thank you to your teachers. You can also include someone who is teaching you at home (Mum, Dad, a friend or someone else in your family). Please use the slides to help you with ideas for your project and remember, have fun!
For anyone who has troubling viewing the video explaining what to do, please click on this linkto take you straight to the video.
Happy Children’s Day! You can find out all about Children’s Day on Ms. Mimi’s Storytime Post today.
Today is our double P.E./Movement Day since we had our online P.E./Movement Class. Did you enjoy working with Mr. Dale, Mr. Myk, Miss Yuri and the other teachers. Keep up the good work!!
3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Almoula’s group)
Let’s slow down a little bit first today, but listen and follow the directions to this song. Shake and Move how they say!
4 Year Olds (in Miss Yuri and Ms. Hoshi’s group)
Hi everybody! I hope you enjoyed going on a bear hunt again! Today, I would like to share what I have been doing the past month. I have been challenging myself to exercise everyday and putting a cross on the days I finished my daily exercise. As you can see, I have been exercising everyday and I feel very healthy and strong!
Since it’s almost exactly a month till our last day of school, I thought it’ll be a good challenge to try and exercise everyday with everyone! It’s a 1 month exercise challenge!
Here are some May calendars you could print out to keep track of the day you did your exercise!
For this week and next week, we will do the following exercise:
-Squat X5
-Frog Jump X5
-Run on the spot 10sec
-Star Jump X5
-Run on the spot 20sec. If you feel you need a day you need to rest that’s fine as well. Please make sure you do it at your own pace and if you would like to do other exercises that’s awesome too. Enjoy exercising! 🙂
5 Year Olds ~ Pre-First Graders (in Mr. Dale and Mr. Myk’s group)
Hi Everyone!
It was an awesome day of dances today. Here is your very own dance wheel you can move along to at home! It would be super duper fun to dance with many people and you can even choose your own favourite music!
Have you seen any Koinobori (carp streamers) as you were taking a walk around your neighborhood? Can you describe where you saw it?
March 3rd is “Girls’ Day”, for girls to celebrate. May 5th used to be called “Boys’ Day”, but now it has been changed to “Children’s Day” when we celebrate the good health and happiness for both boys and girls.
Would you like to make a traditional Samurai warrior’s helmet to wear? If you have some old newspapers, ask your parents to put together two spread sheets on top of each other. Then, you take the left corner at the bottom and bring it to the top to form a triangle. Fold the bottom crease before cutting off the right side edge carefully with a pair of scissors. For the next steps, please enjoy the video below by clicking on the “play button” in the center.
Would you like to learn and sing a popular song about Koinobori?
When the song was first made, the verse talked about a big father carp and his small children carps (as in the song above). Later, in the mid-Showa era, the Koinobori had two big carps (for the father and the mother), along with the small carp(s) (for the child or children) to represent the family.
Now, if you are up to it, would you like to make your own three-dimensional Koinobori?
You will need a piece of paper, some crayons, scissors, glue, some colorful tissue paper, and some old newspapers for stuffing. You might need some help from a grown-up, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy coloring it on your own. You can have fun filling in with crayons you choose. Maybe your family might make one Koinobori each to decorate your home. Please click the “play button” below to get started.
3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Almoula’s group)
Here is another easy follow directions dance.
4 Year Olds (in Miss Yuri and Ms. Hoshi’s group)
Hi everybody! We have been dancing, exercising and calming ourselves with yoga for the past blog entries. We will continue with this for the next few weeks! Today is an exercising & workout day! We will be continuing with a 5 minutes workout 🙂
This time we are doing 40 seconds of…
-StarJumps
-Running Punches
-Frog Jumps
-Squat and Turn
-Knees To Elbow Marching
You will have 20 seconds of rest time during these exercises. You may notice some moves are from songs and dances we have done in the past!
Make sure you have your water bottle near you so you can drink water when you need it. You will feel your heart beating very fast during this activity. Remember to breathe while you are exercising!
If 40 seconds feels too long, please adjust it to 20 seconds and 10 seconds of rest.
Please check this video to see how the exercise works!
Enjoy exercising!
5 Year Olds ~ Pre-First Graders (in Mr. Dale and Mr. Myk’s group)
Hello 5s and 6s!
For our second day of Flashy Feet Friday, we are doing a few moves from last time to warm up and then we are gonna learn about 3 new moves! Make sure to always be careful and keep your focus during your flashy feet practice so that you and/or others don’t get hurt.
Here is our activity list for today (click on each name to see a demo video with my stuffed friends)
Try these activities for about 30 seconds each and then take a quick rest before trying the next one.
Each Friday, I will be giving out moves that steadily become a little harder every time so that you can know if your feet are getting faster and stronger. These exercises also help us with our balance and coordination. I hope you enjoy moving and jumping!
We hope you enjoyed your P.E./Movement class for today. Continue eating well, washing your hands properly and EXERCISE!
If we were at school, yesterday would have been our annual Food Fair. Maybe some of you would have remembered it from last year, but for some, it would have been the first time. If you were at the Christmas Bazaar last November, it would have been a much bigger version, with many food booths, games and vendors selling many goods.
Our story today is about a peddler. A peddler is someone who comes around the neighborhood selling things. They could come on a bicycle, in a car or truck, pulling a cart, on foot, many many different ways. It might be different depending on the country too. Let’s see what this peddler does today in our story, Caps for Sale. Please enjoy!
Here are some questions you can answer or think about:
What is a peddler?
Have you ever seen a peddler?
Do you think you can balance all those caps on your head?
How many caps were there all together? How many of each and what colors?
What happened to the caps when the peddler woke up from his nap?
Can you watch again and pretend to be the peddler and then the monkeys?
Which cap do you think you would like to have?
Here are some activities for you to enjoy….
Coloring Worksheets ~
If you don’t have a printer, you can make your own peddler and then caps to place on his head. If you make your own peddler, you can make other things for him to sell. It could even be a girl peddler!
Can you walk with something on your head? You can find things to place on your head and see if you can balance it and walk around your room or your house. When you get good with one, try to put another and another.
Here are some examples of placing a book or a basket on your head. It’s actually a Montessori activity for Walking on the Line. You can try walking on a line while placing these objects on your head!
Today is our double P.E./Movement Day since we had our online P.E./Movement Class. Did you enjoy working with Mr. Dale, Mr. Myk, Miss Yuri and the other teachers. Keep up the good work!!
3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Almoula’s group)
Let’s just dance and let loose today!! Dance high, dance low, dance on the floor!! Here is some music you can dance to…
4 Year Olds (in Miss Yuri and Ms. Hoshi’s group)
Today we all went on a bear hunt! Hope you enjoyed going on an adventure with us! Here is a tutorial video of how we go on a bear hunt. We will go on an adventure once again so please be prepared so we won’t get caught by a bear! The key movements are…
5 Year Olds ~ Pre-First Graders (in Mr. Dale and Mr. Myk’s group)
Hi Everyone!
I hope you enjoyed our zoom PE day today. Here is a home version of our workout wheel from earlier. I have already loaded it up with some exercises and moves you can do at home. If you want, you can invite other people in the house to join you and spin the wheel!
Today I chose a book but it’s not a story, it”s called a non-fiction book. It’s a book that will teach us about opposite words. It’s called Animal Opposites by Stella Stilwell.
Apologies for forgetting to push the publish button for our P.E./Movement blog on Friday. I’m sure the 4-6 year olds had good Language Arts Zoom Room Meetings on Friday. Our week will start again tomorrow Perhaps a little exercise before that might start the week fit and healthy! (Ms. Sallie)
3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Almoula’s group)
The three-year olds work hard on following directions and refining their coordination. Here is a simple song/dance you can do!
Are you ready to Jump, Run and Shout? Here we go!!
4 Year Olds (in Miss Yuri and Ms. Hoshi’s group)
Continuing with our yoga, I am introducing you to Bug Yoga!
You are going to pretend to be a dragonfly, ladybug, snail, bee, and a butterfly. You can be creative and come up with your own bug poses! Feel free to share your poses to others by posting an URL of your pictures!
5 Year Olds ~ Pre-First Graders (in Mr. Dale and Mr. Myk’s group)
You can change the word Friday to Sunday or Monday (sorry everyone….)
Hey everyone!
Today we will have Flashy Feet Fridays! On Flashy Feet Fridays, we will be doing activities to get our legs and feet, fast and strong. I have placed here some activities we can do to improve our lower body. You can do them as many times as you like and you can even ask others to do them with you. Soon enough, you will be able to do them quickly and develop strong and fast feet!
For this Friday’s Flashy Feet session, we will be reviewing how to do our bunny and star jumps and also get to know a few new moves!
Try to do each movement for about 30 seconds and then take a quick break to get ready for the next one! Repeat everything as many times as you want to get practice for those fast and flashy feet!
