七夕の飾り、紙芝居

2008.06.26
台風のような雨の中4組の親子が来てくれました。いくつもの星をつなげて七夕飾りを作りました。七夕は日本の季節の行事で中国もあるようです。思い思いのお願い事を家で書いて飾ります。紙芝居は「ニャンオン」で猫と月のお話です。子供たちはすごく喜んで、特に猫の絵に興味を持ったようです。次回は7月3日です。探検に行きます。目的地は戸室児童館です。雨だったら保育園４０３室で行います。お待ちしています。
Raining again today! Ever since we started the [Potato] - Let's Play Together - Parent and Child session, it has been raining... raining.... raining..... Despite the rain, 4 groups attended the play session today. A new friend from Denmark joined us for the first time. She had a hard time finding the place (the taxi driver could not find the place) but managed to make it in the end. For today, we used colored papers and made stars, drew faces on the stars and threaded a ribbon through it. In Japan, on July 7th, Japanese will make decorations, write their wish on the decorations and hang it on a bamboo stalk in their house. After everyone has completed the craft, we had a picture story telling session. The kids enjoyed the story about the Cat and the Moon. What a coincidence! One of the mother that attended actually borrowed the same picture story from the library and is reading it at her home. As usual, we read some English story books and danced and sang to the Hokey Pokey song and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes song. Next Thursday, if weather permits, we will have an excursion to the nearby Kids Community Center (Tomuro Jidoukan). Do come and join us. We will be waiting.

おりがみ Origami

2008.6.19
おりがみ製作、初めてであったがうまく出来たと思う。我が家の笹（生）をセロテープでつけ、ひこぼしおりひめの人形を貼り付け、お願い事を書き、持ち帰った。
The craft for today is origami. As July 7th is Star Festival Celebration in Japan, the origami for today is the characters from the Star Festival story. After completing the origami, it is stuck on a piece of white paper and decorated with bamboo stalks. The kids wishes are written on the paper. After completing the crafts, the teacher told a story using board and pictures. It is a story about animals and later the animals body and head gets all scrambled up and the kids has to pick and choose the correct head for the correct animal. It was a hit among the kids.

パネルシアター

2008.06.12
パネルシアターで食べ物のクイズをしました。子供たちは喜んで遊びました。英語の本‘Bye Bye Bear’で’あいさつ、拍手、いないいないばあ、さよなら’の言葉を習いました。日本語のわらべ歌‘あめあめやんでくれ’を歌いました。傘をさしなが ら踊りました。でんでんむしの歌も歌いました。英語で‘Hokey Pokey’の踊るを踊りました。食事時韓国のはるさめとインドのカレーの作り方を教えてもらいました。お母さんどうしがとても楽しそうに話してしていま した。
Food riddle today. Using board and pictures, the teacher asked the kids questions like "What is square, brown and tastes sweet?" Do you know what it is? The answer is chocolate. The kids had a nice time trying to guess the name of the food shown on the picture. The question that all kids are stuck with is "sour plum". I guess "sour plum" is a very typical Japanese food but not many foreign children takes "sour plum". During lunch time, we exchanged recipes on how to cook a Korean noodle dish called "Chapchi" and Indian curry.

Story telling

2008.06.05
The theme for today is Story telling. Using an apron and characters from the famous Hans Christian Andersen story of the "The Emperor's New Clothes", the kids were entertained by a visual display and story telling of an emperor who unwittingly hires two swindlers to create a new suit of clothes for him. The kids were also told story from pictorial story cards and from the English books 'Thomas and the weather', 'Are Chickens Stripey?' and 'Goodnight Gorilla'. The attendants were also informed about 'Book Start' campaign in Atsugi where the library will give young children living in Atsugi 2 free books and a bag to encourage mothers to read to kids.
Library Book Start Campaign