KC

The children have been comparing different writing systems in Japanese and English. We have been talking about the difference between alphabets like the English (Roman) alphabet, katakana and hiragana, and symbol/concept based writing systems such as kanji. We went on a hunt around YIS to search for Japanese writing. The children discovered many different kinds [...]

Recently some of the children have shown a particular interest in counting larger sets. I was intrigued to see what strategies they would use for counting numbers over 100, and I wanted to see how much they understood about the relationship between ones, tens and hundreds. I told the children that I had noticed that [...]

KC students have been making a stop-animation movie. This has been a LONG process involving huge amounts of problem solving and team work. The children have had to: conduct Internet and library research to come up with an authentic setting and credible characters plan, draft and finalise the movie script make characters and props, paying [...]

We wondered where writers get their ideas. We had a discussion. I recorded the children’s comments and put them on wallwisher. Use the scroll bars at the side and along the bottom to view all the wall posts. You can add your thoughts to our wall by clicking on the pink “post a sticky” tab [...]

A couple of days ago, the children noticed that one of our goldfish, Sandy was bent double and was lying on the bottom of the fish tank. Lego, the other goldfish was also looking a bit sick. We observed the fish carefully for the next two days. Lego seemed to get little better. However, Sandy [...]

We went for a walk around Motomachi to see how people use spaces in clever ways. The children took photographs of the interesting things they saw. When we got back, we printed the photographs. Together, we at the photographs and shared ideas the clever ways of using space. Once the children had had a chance [...]