Not sure whether the slugs or the ice cream was the highlight. Spot mad boy swimming in his clothes (no he didn't have a change of clothes or a towel!). One of the kids commented, "That's what Bilingual School is all about. We'd never be allowed to do this on a shougakko trip". Hmmmm... Let's hope parents see it as a positive too :-)

On Saturday we went walking on Funday. We were tired after all the walking, but we had a lot of fun. 

We went up hills!

And down hills!

Let's go walking!





Time for a lunch break!

After we all recharged, it was time to walk some more!

Are we there yet?!?!




We made it!




Can you see your house?

  We had a lot of fun on this thing!

There are lots of children moving from the lower school to the upper school this April, and we have some new friends who have joined us as new upper school students too. So we had a one day orientation to get to know each other. We had lots of fun and we learned a lot too. Some highlights...

We started with some team building games. Can we all get on the blue tarp as it gets smaller and smaller? Spot the crazy teacher cheerleading the tower building!

We had a "make your own sandwich" lunch party. Yum!


We played hide and seek indoors as it was raining too hard to go to the park.

Of course, we studied and played word/phonics games.

And we did craft too. Look at our new school window. Read all about us!

We went ice skating in honor of the winter olympics. Some of us are already good at it, and some of us are first timers! Good job everyone though.

It's Pancake Day in England and the UK today. We made and ate pancakes for lunch (but seem to have lost the photos!). And then we went to the park and had pancake races (with our playdough pancakes we had made earlier).

Japanese class today so we celebrated Settsubun and had a sushi lunch. Good times!

Our first activity was very exciting. We went to the park to see Justin launch the rocket he had built for us. After the first unsuccessful try, it went right over the park! Oooooh... it was super!

Rocket fuel...

Pumping it up....

It's off!

See it go.

Found it!

 Back at school.Making our programs for our parents.

Shared reading.

Reading by ourselves.

Finding things we like on the computer...

Meanwhile, downstairs, we are still hard at work. When there's a choice between tables and the floor, we usually choose the floor! 

It's the School Trip. And we got our own private bus. Far out!

A KOBILS invasion!
 

Astronaut, astronaut, where have you been? I've been to...

Alien slime invasion...

Meanwhile downstairs we are seriously studying, preparing our research projects...

We also played a Yes/No space fact game. Space knowledge getting better and better!



And we even got a break in the park. Planet (fruit) basket with some new rules.



Meanwhile upstairs we had singing and dancing...

And kakigori... shaved ice. Choose from Saturn yellow, Mars red, Uranus blue, or Neptune green. Yum!

A slow photo day... we took about 80 as opposed to the usual 200. Links coming soon. And today...

  Lower School marshmallow and spaghetti space stations.