Tsukuba International Preschool

How fast the months are passing by! We will begin a new Unit of Inquiry this week, titled “Faces and Places of our School”. We will explore how schools are organized to help us live and learn together. This week we will begin by finding out what students know about our school, who works here, and what is their job.

Children have gained a lot of confidence in their story telling journals recently, and are trying very hard to label pictures with letters and words, and attempt to write an accompanying sentence, almost independently.

In Japanese class this week, children will celebrate Setsubun no hi (節分の日) with some bean throwing.

We look forward to seeing you all at the Student-Parent-Teacher conferences this week. Have a good week!

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Monday
This morning we will meet Jumping Jim and practice our letter writing. We will also brainstorm what we all know about our school. In the afternoon we will go outside for some PE activities.

Tuesday
We will review our sign language this morning and work in small independent and teacher-led learning groups for language activities. In Maths, P1 will do some place activities while P2 & P3 work with numbers and addition.

Wednesday
Today we will write in our journals and look at who works in our school.

Thursday
This morning we will read a story and do a listening comprehension activity. In the afternoon we will do a jungle art activity.

Friday
Today we will visit TIS and observe what kind of jobs people are doing over there. We will also review our independent reading and writing activities and make some jigsaws.