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Introducing Magic Words! (Nagano Aurora/Shooting Star October 12th-15th)

Hello Aurora and Shooting Star families!

We have had another fun week at ISN!

This week we continued our Unit of Inquiry lessons for Unit 3.

今週のUOIのレッスンはUnit3をしました。📚

To remind everyone, our Transdicplinary theme is “How we express ourselves”, our Central Idea is “We can show our feelings in different ways”, and our current line of inquiry is “Using words”.

探究テーマは “How we express ourselves” です。「どう気持ちを表現するか」です。探究内容は “We can show our feelings in different ways” 「感情は色んな方法で表現できる」です。😀😁😂😐😪😥🥰

In our lessons this week, we reminded ourselves of the different emotions we learned about last week, introducing a new poster students can point to if they do not know the word for their feeling yet.

レッスンでは先週の学んだ感情の種類の復習と新しい感情の紹介をしました。😲😤😨😡

New this week, we introduced our magic words! These are words and phrases that students can use to either show their positive and negative feelings, as well as use helpful phrases that would make their teachers happy.

そしてマジックワードの紹介をしました。マジックワードとはシチュエーションをよりよくする単語または文です。そのマジックワードは友達や先生をとても幸せにします。💖👩‍❤️‍👩👨‍❤️‍👨 

For example, some of our phrases include “Please”, “Thank you”, “I will help you” and so on.

例えば”Please, Thank you, I will help you”などです。☆彡

We discussed different scenarios students might want to use these phrases, and why it is good to use these phrases.

どのような場面でどんな言葉をかけたら良いか話し合い、どうしてその言葉が適しているのかをみんなで話し合いました。😊✨

Students also learned about some rewards they can earn when they use these phrases, which will be discussed in future blogs.

マジックワードを使うとクラスのデコレーションの1つになるあるものを得ることができます!💖😁🥇 今後のブログで詳しくお話致しますね😉

Finally, our teacher even demonstrated some real magic, in order to show us the power of using magic words!

最後に先生がマジックを見せてくれました。🤡🥳

We look forward to hearing lots of magic words from now on!

これから、マジックワードを沢山聞かせてくださいね🧡💛💚

Also this week we had our swimming lessons at our local sports club!

次はスイミングレッスンです。🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️

Once there, students changed into their bathing suits, stretched their bodies and showered off before entering the water.

ジムへ到着すると、水着に着替えストレッチそしてシャワーをして入水です。🌊

For Aurora class, activities included transporting stickers from one end of the pool to the other, splashing their arms and legs in the water, and even swimming with their heads under the water with the help of their teacher!

Auroraさんはプールの端から端まで水の中を歩いたり、走ったりシールをくっつけに行ったり、ワニさん歩きをしたりしました。そして先生の方に両手を乗せて足を後ろに伸ばしゆっくりと泳いでみました。皆さん顔をちゃんと付けられるようになりましたね🌊🌊🌊😉そして、1人でどんどん泳ぐことが出来るお友達もいましたね😮😆😉

Shooting Star class worked on keeping their heads under the water for longer periods of time, swimming the length of the pool using kickboards while kicking their legs, and new this week, having their teachers throw them forward into the water, making a giant splash as they entered!

Shooting Starはビート板を使いバタ足をして泳ぎました。水を怖がっていた皆さんはどこに行ってしまったのでしょう❓最後にインストラクターがプールの中へ皆さんをジャブーンと投げ入れて 🌊🌊🌊 大きな水しぶきをあげて楽しみました😁😁😁😁

Both classes did a great job, and there are many students who can move independently in the water!

AuroraさんもShooting Starさんも1人で泳いでみたり、泳ごうとトライしてみたりでとても頼もしいです。😍🥰とても頑張りましたね💖💜

Thank you everyone, and see you again next time!