And we had a pizza day and made our own pizzas. And yes, Justin did make the pizza costume all by himself!

First we made chef's hats. Red, of course. They came out cool!

Then we made the pizzas.



Then we ate them!

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 had tons of activities to celebate the winter olympics. Here is a taster.

Medal winners!

Olympic Flame: We had it right here at KOBILS!

Ice hockey: Our favorite. On the rink with newspaper hockey sticks and plastic balls and balloons.

And table top with straws.

Making lunch mats and skiing pictures:

Teddy bear olympics, skeleton and luge. We tried different types of artificial snow and guessed which would be fastest.

And Germany won gold again. Grrrr.... I can't work out how I missed the picture on the British gold medal day!

 We played with Olympic rings:

We learned where Canada was and medal winning countries.

And we made a big Olympic display. Happy happy Olympics!

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.

We made really cute valentine's day cards for our mums and dads.

We went to Fish School down at Tarumi sea front and made nori. Lucky for us, the weather was warm and good. While we were waiting for our nori to dry, we went to the lego shop and played. Good day out.

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!