Under the sea

Buds was so busy today. We were eleven in the class. We think that it was not just busy for us but also for our teachers. They worked really hard to make our class filled with happiness and love all the time. As we started our day, Haruto was so good in parking all the cars. He lined them up in an organized fashion while Karl was helping him putting more and more cars at the end of it. They later found some lego blocks and started building tall towers while Taiga was trying to show his teachers his favorite red car he just found.                 Some of us painted our artwork. We were making the sea so that we could put some sea creatures later. What we did was we used some bubble wraps and dipped them in the blue paint. Sayaka showed us how to do it very carefully for we didn’t want to spill the paint all over our table. So, we carefully followed what Sayaka told us. We gently put the bubble wrap in the paint and pushed it down a little. Then, we put it on the paper and we stamped it on the paper and then pushed it again very delicately. We were eleven so we took our turns in painting our sea for we only used one table for the art activity. But then yet, we enjoyed it a lot.

We had our gym class again today. We just love being with Tanaka-sensei. We did our warm-up exercises and several stretching routines for us to get ready for another activity. This time, Tanaka played a game with us. The game was all about walking around in circles and when he would blow his whistle, we had to stop and do a lion’s roar, monkey’s action, and a crocodile’s snappy mouth. Taiga was very active and he loved doing those actions. Haruto was also interested in the game for he always made exaggerated movements of the monkey.     Karl, at first, was looking at the group and then he later joined in, he said that he can do a bear walk and a crocodile crawl. Tanaka was very patient with us for he was really trying his best to give individual attention. He would even walk around us just to see if we’re doing the right posture. He was helping us to achieve a fun class that we can benefit from.                

Sofie and Karl were trying their best to imitate the simple exercises. But the most challenging exercise of the day was the “table”posture. He told us to pin our feet and hands down on the floor and then we have to push our tummy out in the sky. In this way, we truly looked like a table. Hana and Lanah were really good in doing this position. Rei and Yurika were almost there but we thought that they may need more time to do this.                   

At the park, we definitely had an amazing time again. Rupert loves the slides so much that he spent most of his time climbing up the ladder and sliding down over and over again. Riku was underneath the slides for quite a while until he found his momentum to go and play. And near the sand pit, we saw Haruto and Dominik discussing something about birthdays. We observed them for a little time and we saw that Haruto was putting sand inside a small bowl. We were actually thinking what they were doing and we later found out that he put another 2 little white sticks on top of the sand. And then, Haruto started singing, “Happy birthday to you…Happy birthday to you…” Thank you so much again for a great day in Ohana! See you tomorrow!

Love, John, Sayaka and Maki