Activities
Monthly activities
Nanakusa Preschool provides activities with monthly themes.
September
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Let's paint a big moon.
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Lets eat Tsukimi Dango (Autumn moon dumplings).
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What do you see inside the moon?
October
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How many seeds in a pumpkin? Let's count them.
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Let's decorate pumpkins.
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Come play at school in your costume.
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Let's plant bulbs (crocus, daffodil, tulip) for flowers in the spring.
November
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Let's collect colorful Fall leaves and different kind of nuts.
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Create art with leaves.
- Collage of leaves, nuts and sticks.
- Autumn leaf pine cone turkey.
- Autumn leaf prints.
- Handprints turkey.
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Let's make a Thanksgiving card.
December
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Make Christmas decorations.
- Pine cone Christmas tree.
- Paper wreath.
- Ornament with beads.
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Annual holiday parent and child craft event
January
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Let's make New Year's greeting cards.
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Let's play Japanese traditional New Year's games.
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Top and kite making.
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Let's make Nanakusa gayu (congee traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year) with spring greens.
February
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Celebrate Setsubun.
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Oni mask making.
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Let's chase Oni away with soy beans!
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Let's make Valentine's Day cards.
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Let's make hearts with felt and paper.
March
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Girls' Day Celebration.
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Let's make dolls (Ohinasama and Odairisama) for Girls' Day.
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Observe Spring flowers from last Fall's planting.
April
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Make vegetable stamp art.
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Look for vegetable seeds.
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Look for roots, stems, leaves and flowers (Which part of the vegetables do we eat?).
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Observe the anatomy of a tulip.
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Let's make vegetable soup.
May
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Children's Day Celebration.
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Let's make Koinobori (carp pennant) and Kabuto (helmet).
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Make Mother's Day cards.
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Paint butterfly life cycle art.
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Let's discover bugs outside.
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Let's make a stone pet.
June
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Graduation art making.
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Completion ceremony.
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Graduation ceremony.
Science experiments
Nanakusa students enjoy a number of natural science experiments throughout the year.
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Magnets experiment: Let's look into things sticking together.
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Let's make clay with flour and paste.
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Things that float and sink in water.
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Which color can you make? Let's mix colors.
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How will the color of a celery's leaves change after putting them in color water?
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How will water move along paper?
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How will a seed grow? Let's look into necessities (sun, water, soil).
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Let's make a string telephone.
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How will they look? Let's look at various things through a microscope.
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Let's make crystal.