Yummy hamburgers [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon everyone,
I hope you are all well. We had a fun and busy day today at Pipi.
For our craft today, we firstly opened up our very own hamburger restaurant. We had many different items in our restaurant.
However, at this restaurant you have to make your own hamburgers. Everyone had some money and had to ask for the different items that they would like to put on their hamburgers.
We then assembled our very yummy and unique hamburgers.
They look great. Well done everyone!!
This afternoon from the windows we saw a lovely blue sky and the sun was shining, although it was still quite chilly outside. We decided to go for a walk to see if our park will be ready soon to play in. There is still a lot of snow and lots of puddles. We were surprised to see some pretty flowers that were starting to bloom.
Take care and see you soon
Narelle
Spring and snow????? [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon everyone,
Today we talked about different things we see during spring. For today's craft we decided to draw a spring picture.
We drew a tree with lots of branches and light green leaves. There were also some flowers in the field. Others had a big rainbow in the sunny sky.
But once we had finished our lovely spring pictures we looked outside and saw snow!!! So we got out some white paint, a paintbrush and our finger! Our finger was painted with white paint then everyone put white dots all over the paper to look like snowflakes.
Our lovely spring pictures turned into snowy winter ones. What crazy weather we have here in Hokkaido!
Take care everyone
Narelle
Music Time [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon everyone,
I hope you enjoyed your "Spring " holidays. It looks like it is in the middle of winter again!!
Today we talked about music! First we drew five lines on the blackboard as straight as possible.
Then we took it in turns to write the note that followed. Kids did a great job! Many also knew the notes when they were played on the piano.
This was all in preparation for our annual student display. Last year a photo of all students were inside shooting stars. This year it is a music note. So of course we all had to pose in our special photo frame. These are just some of the silly pics the kids posed for. Certainly not camera shy!
For flashcard time, we had to find matching opposite cards and if we could we got some treasure! Everybody did an excellent job and there were quite a few chocolately faces and fingers afterwards!
Hope you are all well
Take care
Narelle
Happy Springtime! [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon everyone,
Today was quite an emotional day for teachers, students and parents. Today was the final day of the school year here at Pipi. It also marked the last preschool days of five of our students who will begin elementary school in April. Some other students will also be moving to a new place and so we say "See you and Good Luck". We'll miss all of the students who are leaving our preschool. However, we are also very excited about starting our new year.
Today Easter celebrations were in the air. We all had our own "nests" filled with straw.
Today we had real hard boiled eggs! The kids decorated them beautifully using paint. Lovely job everyone!
We also had our own easter egg hunt. The kids really enjoyed trying to find the eggs and were very surprised to see the present inside the eggs.
We had a great day today but also a little sad because some of our students are moving on to bigger and better things. Good luck to all of our students.
Enjoy your week of "Spring" holidays. I wish the snow will melt quickly.
See you all in the new school year.
Take care
Narelle
Monsters!!!! [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon everyone,
Today we had a special guest fly in for flashcard time. We all some food or drinks to offer our guest. "Do you like green tea?"
We then read two books about monsters. One monster was even under the bed in one story! So for our craft, we made our very own monsters. Some had one eye, others had three! There were also sharp teeth and many funny ears and legs.
After our workbooks in the afternoon, some kids enjoyed a relaxing playtime.
Others did puzzles, built interesting things from blocks or made little cakes out of clay.
We had a fun and busy day.
Hope you are all well.
Take care
Narelle
Pajama Day! [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon,
Today was Pajama Day here at Pipi. Many kids and teachers arrived in their pajamas. The kids looked great. We had many characters. There was Hello Kitty, Thomas the tank engine, Shinkansen - bullet train and even an astronaut!
We sang a song about kids in the bed and the little one said "Roll over, Roll over," And all the kids rolled over and one fell out of bed! The kids loved rolling all over the floor.
During flashcard time, the kids enjoy the game where they stand up if they like the food, sit down if they don't like it or stand halfway if they like it a little.
For our craft today everyone designed their own pajamas. They were covered in many different patterns. Flowers, hearts, stripes, shapes and even space.
Great job everyone.
See you all soon.
Narelle
The Cat in the Hat [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon everyone,
Thank you to everyone who came to our school concert on Sunday. It was a successful event and the kids all did a wonderful job!!
We started the morning off with some rhyming words. We had to see how many three-letter words end in "at". We found ten words!
We then read a very famous book called "The Cat in the Hat". The kids loved this book!
So for a craft, we made our vey own Cat in the Hat. We drew a cat's face then made a very tall red and white hat.
They all look fantastic!!
We also danced to a new song for us about a banana phone. It was very funny!
At the end of the day, three of the oldest students took it in turns to read a story. They did a great job. Well done!
See you all soon.
Narelle
Can you find the right card? [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon everyone,
Today was our last practice day at Pipi for the upcoming school concert tomorrow. The kids are all well prepared and it should be a great day tomorrow. Also, a big thanks to the kids who are not coming but did a wonderful job filling in. Well done everyone!
We started the day off with a flashcard game. There were many flashcards on the floor. Some had pictures, others had only words. The teachers gave some tricky clues but the kids did a wonderful job of choosing the correct card.
We had a fun dancing time. When the music stops - FREEZE!
The kids did many different things during playtime. Our creative girls drew some lovely pictures.
And the boys had fun creating interesting things with blocks, doing puzzles or playing a card game.
I'll see many of you tomorrow.
Take care
Narelle
2014-03-05 [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon everyone,
I hope you are doing well and everyone is now clear of the flu.
Today we read the same story in two languages. We first read one page of the story in French then the same page in English. It was interesting to read the same story in different languages.
We also celebrated the birthday of Miss N. today. Everyone decided to write a card to our birthday girl. Everyone wrote a message and drew a lovely picture.
Everybody sang "Happy Birthday to You" for our birthday girl.
And you can't celebrate a birthday without a cake. It was yummy!
Some of the cute faces at Pipi
Take care and see you soon
Narelle
A big day of rehearsing! [Narelle's Diary]
Good afternoon,
How is everyone today? We have certainly had a busy day today. We all arrived at the Asahikawa cultural hall where we will have our annual school presentation. The students did a great job of going through the different parts of our presentation. We even had a dress rehearsal where the kids looked great but sorry you will have to wait to see them in their costumes on the day.
Wonderful job everyone!
Once we got back to Pipi, we were all quite hungry. The kids enjoyed their lunch very much and EVERYONE finished all of their lunch! Nice work.
As usual we all did our workbooks. Kids are doing a great job on their workbooks and count the pages to see how many they have left.
After the workbooks were all done we enjoyed a nice playtime doing puzzles, playing with blocks or playing with the trains and cars.
Another fun day at Pipi.
Take care
Narelle
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