How we organize ourselves

During this unit we learned all about how people organize their space based on different factors.

We explored all of our personal preferences on spaces,  the connection between the need of communities and organization of spaces and how communities use shared spaces.

How the world works!

Pre-kindergarten A has a great time in this unit learning all about how the world works and gaining knowledge on the topic that living things go through many changes throughout a lifecycle.

We started discovering about living and nonliving things as well as how to identify the differences between the two. 

We moved on to learning about the life cycles of some different kinds of living things such as frogs, cicadas, pumpkins and tomatoes.

The class planted their own selected plants and took them home to continue their education and nurture their own experiment.

For our assessment we created posters of our favorite animals or plants going through their life cycles. It was a lot of fun for us to be creative and to show our knowledge of science at the same time! 

Finally we enjoyed a trip to the Osaka Natural History Museum in Nagai park. We spent the morning learning about nature, insects, extinct and endangered animals.

We also learned about the effects that humans can have on the local environment. In the afternoon we played in the botanical gardens and enjoyed exploring the different environments that can be found there.

For our next unit we will be learning about ‘How we organize ourselves’ and seeing why people organize our space based on different factors.

 Who we are

Hello parents and friends!

We had such a great time learning all about ourselves and our fellow classmates, I wanted to share with you a little of what we did and learned about.

The first step we did in this unit was to discover information that is important to us and our friends.

Important numbers

• our age
• our birthday date
• number of letters in our name
• number of family members

Where are we from?

• Japan
• Hong Kong
• Taiwan
• China
• United Kingdom
• Australia

What do we like?

• Pizza
• Ice-cream

What don't we like?

• Sand 
• Loud noises

What can we do?

What can't we do?

Once we learned all this important information about us and our classmates we then moved on to showing more about ourselves.

We made self portraits trying to copy a photo of ourselves, it was a little tricky for a few of us but we had tons of fun!

Finally we looked at different learner profiles to see if we are principled, caring and if we are risktakers.

We had an amazing first term and learned so much together! I can't wait to see what we are able to learn and accomplish in our next unit!