Tedako Preschool

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Tedako Preschool
Newsletter
Table of Contents
Invitation to try CDC Lunch
Have you ever wondered what the CDC school lunch taste like?
On September 30 the CDC will organize a School Lunch Tasting
for Parents. Please join us at 12:00 in the Auditorium Meeting
Room 1.
Please REGISTER by Friday, September 16th at
Try CDC Lunch…...1
Save the Date…...….1
All About Me Theme
Art……….....2-3
Kukuru Class………4
Communicable
Diseases…..….5
TB Free Certificates.5
Pin Worm Test…….5
Parent Groups...…5
Snack Menu……..…6
Lunch Menu……..8
https://groups.oist.jp/cdc/parent-lunch-event-fall-2016
This will also be a good opportunity to meet
and socialize with other parents
Save the Date!
Field Trips
Birthdays
Barn Yard Dance
September 15 Kugani and Shinka Class
September 16
October 28
We will celebrate all the
children with Birthdays in
September at 2:50. All
Families are welcomed!
Children come to school in
costume and enjoy the
Barn Yard Themed Event!
We will picnic with our
classes too. All families
welcomed.
will go to Kin Mud Park
September 16 Kugani and Shinka
Class will go to Tancha no Oka Retirement
home
September 30 Shinka Class will go to
the Planetarium
Winter Concert
December 3
@Auditorium
TEDAKO PRESCHOOL NEWSLETTER
FALL 2016
Classroom Updates
ALL ABOUT ME THEME
One of the themes in August was All About Me. This educational theme enhances learning and
encourages self-awareness. At Tedako Preschool, teachers’ meaningfully integrate the arts into
children’s learning experiences. The children really enjoyed creating things out of their own image and
likeness and can also recognize each other in their art. Check out the art that was created during our
All about me theme and is currently displayed in the classrooms.
KUGANI and SHINKA children made their
3D self-portrait for the ALL About Me
theme! First, Shizuka Sensei asked the
children what their face parts are and
then they cut the circle for the face
and glued it on a piece of paper. Next,
they drew their faces while looking at the
mirror. After they drew their faces, they
added hair with yarn which they
chose. The next day, the children
measured each other's heights with yarn
and taped it on their own 3D self-portrait.
Shizuka Sensei hung them on the wall at
their heights. They loved comparing each
other's heights and looking to see how
different their faces are.
For the NUUJI Class, Akia Sensei wanted
to design an activity that she could build
on. The first part was tracing the
children. Once she hung up their
silhouettes at eye level, right away, the
children compared the sizes of
them. Next, they could draw on them
anyway the wanted to decorate it. She
wanted to add more “favorite things”
such as favorite foods. Children drew a
picture of their favorite food and were
asked to post it on their
silhouettes. Many children had
interesting logic, they place the drawing
of their favorite food on their stomach,
because that is where the food goes once
eaten!
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TEDAKO PRESCHOOL NEWSLETTER
FALL 2016
Once the KANASAN’s All About Me
Art was complete and hung on the
wall the children were really
excited and enjoyed looking at
what they helped create. The
children first stamped his or her
hands and feet, then they painted a
body. They really enjoyed this as a
sensory activity! Teachers then
took pictures of the children, cut
the faces out, cut the painted body
and stamped hands and feet and
put all the pieces together.
YUI class teacher, Ryoko’s
inspiration for the All About Me
activity for her class came from the
traditional Japanese New Year
Game called Fukuwari. In this
game, face pieces are arranged in
funny ways on a blank face. Ryoko
took pictures of the children and
cut out their eyes, nose and mouth
for them to place onto a blank
face. They children did not
recognize their own face parts, but
they are still wonderful works of
art.
You can see many toddler silhouettes
high above the CHURASAN
classroom. Teachers traced each child
individually and were impressed with
the variety of poses and how the
children understood that they needed
to be still. After this activity, the
children loved to be traced and asked
many times using chalk while playing
outside. In the second part of this art
project, the children could decorate
their bodies. Finally, Kanako put their
names on the art and hung them up
on display. They cannot read yet, but
the children in this class know the first
letter of each of their classmates, so
they can tell you who’s body you are
looking at.
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TEDAKO PRESCHOOL NEWSLETTER
FALL 2016
As KUKURU Class babies become mobile, children
become very interested in exploring. They investigate
everything they can get their hands on. This desire to
explore and play motivates the babies to move by
scooting, crawling, and even walk to what they are
interested in.
In a group setting YOUNG KUKURU Class
infants like to watch other babies and older
children. They get excited when they can be part
of the action too!
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TEDAKO PRESCHOOL NEWSLETTER
FALL 2016
Tedako Announcements
Communicable Diseases
If your child exhibits signs of a cold, flu or other
communicable disease, please keep your child at
home. If your child is diagnosed with a
communicable disease, please report it to your
child’s class teacher or email tedako@oist.jp asap.
We will not identify your child, but will share
information about the illness with our teachers
and parents so that they can be aware and watch
for signs of the illness in other children and know
what measures to take for management of the
illness.
TB Free Certificate
If your child is older than 6 months and does not
have the BCG vaccine, please submit a negative
TB certificate to Tedako office by September 30.
A skin test is available at Onna Clinic and costs
1500 yen. If you need assistance making an
appointment, please contact the OIST Health
Center at 098-966-8945
Pin Worm Test
Our last week of pool activity will be
September 30 and we will have a pinworm
test the following week. You will receive the
test kit on the October 3rd, please return it to
school on the 5th. Children may still play in
the water and get wet at school, but will not be
playing in pools of water.
Parent Groups
OIST Infant Parents Support Group or Weekly Tea and Play contact bethanyann@thecerbuses.com
All Tedako Preschool and CDC After School Families are invited to join PATO. PATO is the Parent
Association Tedako at OIST. If you are interested in joining, please registered your e-mail address
at oist.pato.group@gmail.com
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TEDAKO PRESCHOOL NEWSLETTER
FALL 2016
September Snack
Monday
AM 朝:
Orange
Tuesday
AM 朝:
Banana/ Soy Milk
Wednesday
AM 朝:
Breadstick/ Milk
PM 午後:
Rasins and Carrots
*cooked for young
toddlers
PM 午後:
Natto/Rice
PM 午後:
Cottage Cheese/
Blueberries
Thursday
AM 朝:
Yogurt/Bananna
PM 午後:
Baked Sweet
Potato
Friday
AM 朝:
Apples/ Cheese
PM 午後:
Rice/Furikake
Substitutions
Due to availability or ripeness of fresh fruits or vegetables, substitutions may occur.
Birthday Cake and Milk: On September 16th
Japanese Snack Glossary
Natto
Soybeans fermented with
Bacillus Subtilis
Furikake
A mixture of fish, sesame
seeds and seaweed
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TEDAKO PRESCHOOL
FALL 2016
September
Lunch
Menu
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Friday
1
・Rice
・Baked Hoki fish Ume flavor
・Stir fried Daikon
・Macaroni salad
・Winter melon Miso soup
2 ・Rice
・Vegetable and Tofu flitter
・Seasoned Chicken
・Daikon Salad
・Egg Miso soup
8 ・Rice
・Grilled Flounder sweet Soy
sauce
・Bean sprouts Champuroo
・Cucumber & Wakame
Sunomono
・Vegetable soup.
9 ・Rice
・Fried Chicken
・Stir fried Harusame
w/Oyster sauce ・Burdock
root Salad
・NAMEKO mushroom
Miso soup
5 ・Rice
・Chicken & Green perilla
Tempura
・Cooked Ground meat
&Broccoli
・Hijiki Salad Yuzu dressing
・bean sprouts Miso soup
6 ・Rice
・Baked Red fish w/
Mayonnaise
・Stir fried Veggies and Tofu
Chinese style ・Harusame
Salad
・Clear broth soup
w/Wakame
12 ・Rice
・Baked Hoki fish w/Green
onion
・Stir fried Daikon
・Okra Salad Japanese style
・Potato Miso soup
13 ・Rice
・Cooked Pork w/Tomato
dressing ・Stir fried Rice
noodle
・Seaweed Salad
・Sweet yum Miso soup
14
・Curry rice
・Broccoli Salad
15 ・Rice
・Baked Chicken meat balls
・Spinach sauté
・Nagaimo yam salad
・Onion Miso soup
16 ・Rice
・Cooked Flounder fish
w/Ginger soy sauce
・Cooked Vegetable and
soup
・Daikon Oroshi ・Egg Miso
soup
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20 ・Rice
・White fish Saikyo-yaki
・Go-ya Champuroo
・Beansprouts salad
・Nanohana Miso soup
21 ・Seasoned Rice
・Yakitori
・Carrot salad
・Cooked Green beans
・Koya-tofu Miso soup
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23 ・Rice
・OKONOMI Omlett
・Stir fried Daikon
・NANOHANA Salad
・Pumpkin miso soup
27 ・Rice
・Baked Pork w/Green perilla
・Stir fried Bean sprouts
・Green beans Salad
・Onion Miso soup
28 ・Rice
・Deep fried Spring roll
・Sweet sour Pork
・Papaya Salad
・Okinawa soba
29 ・Rice
・Gyoza
・Harusame Sauté Thai style
・Beans Salad
・Koya-tofu Miso soup
Holiday
26 ・Rice
・Hoki fish Kabayaki
・Stir fried Burdock root
・Okra and corn Salad
・NAMEKO mushroom Miso
soup
7 ・Rice
・Herb seasoned cooked
pork
・Cooked Eggplant miso
flavor
・Marinated Green veggie
・Japanese clear broth
soup
Thursday
Holiday
30 ・Rice
・Red fish w/ Tomato
sauce
・Cooked Potato
・KUZUKIRI w/Crab
flavored fish cake Salad ・
Vegetable soup