Daily Life at Beanstalk International School
We took a trip to Tenpaku Park at the beginning of October.
The weather was perfect.
We got to climb all over the playground…
…and enjoy the huge roller slide!
We really burned our energy away that day. After all that exercise we needed a rest on the bus ride back to school.
We will be going to Tenpaku park again this month to get some more exercise!
Good Morning everyone. We will be doing the Halloween Parade today starting in Amandan Park at 5:15
See you all there!
We went to Sakae this past Sunday to perform at the Hirokoji Kids Halloween Event.
There were a lot of people watching and we were excited to show off our singing and drumming to everyone.
We’d like to thank everybody that came along on Sunday.
It was a great day and we are really looking forward to dressing up in our costumes for Halloween.
You can watch some of our performance right here:
We all went camping during the final week of summer school.
Our first port of call was to go shopping and get some food for dinner.
When we arrived at the campsite there was a delicious curry waiting for us.
Some of us were very hungry!
To burn off some of that energy from our curry, we went swimming. The pool was lovely and cool which was a relief from the hot weather.
After swimming we went to the big field near our camp site to play a few games of capture the flag.
The student went against the teachers and claimed victory. Who knew 5-10 year olds could be so quick!
A few quick group photos after the game.
We were really sweaty!
Everyone was really hungry and we began preparing dinner.
We really enjoyed dinner. There was BBQ, yakisoba and we ate the lot!
After dinner we got a bath and into our pajamas.
Ready for a good nights sleep.
The next morning everyone was full of beans and ready for their day at the egg factory and dinosaur museum. (Which you can read about in our previous blog).
It was a great experience for everyone and we all enjoyed our time camping. We can’t wait to go again next year.
Our final week of summer school was jam packed full of activities and trips!
We went to the Nagoya Science Museum.
There was lots of stuff about the body and we recognized things we’d learned throughout our weeks at summer school.
Putting these organs in the right place was a piece of cake!
We also found many other interesting things in the museum. These leaves smelled really good!
A big part of week 4 was the camping trip. We got to visit an egg factory and learned about the process of packaging eggs.
After trying out some egg packing ourselves we got to take some home!
Once the tour was done they provided us with a yummy lunch.
Before heading back to school we stopped off at a dinosaur museum.
There was many interactive things to do in the museum. This one showed you what you’d look like as a caveman.
We even found some interesting puzzles to solve.
We continued to lean more about the body.
We also got to make a sorbet and…
potato chips!
Summer school was a great experience for all of us. We learned so much about our bodies and what we can do to keep them healthy.
Thank you to all the students who attended and we look forward to seeing you again very soon.
Everyone came back to summer school after a two week break to continue discovering more about health and wellness.
This week was all about the bodies organs and what we can do to keep them functioning for a long time.
Our bodies require food for energy. The food we put into our mouths takes a long journey through several internal organs and makes…
poop!
The process of making poop can be a messy job.
The intestines extract all the good nutrients from the food and leave all the bad stuff for us to poop out.
Not everyone enjoyed recreating this process!
With the sun shining and the weather hot we went outside to catch some somen.
Nagashi somen can be tricky to catch but some of us got our fill very quickly!
It wouldn’t be a traditional Nagashi somen day without smashing some watermelons!
We took a trip to a health museum to learn more about internal organs.
Did you know that water makes up more than 50 percent of the average adult’s body weight!
We all enjoyed our summer break and it was great coming back to do some really fun activities, especially making the poop!
We continued to discover more about health and wellness in our second week of summer school.
What better way to learn about blood than fishing through a pool full of it!
Well fake blood.
Did you know that your blood is made up of liquid and solids!
Everyone collected all the different parts that make up our blood.
It was a messy job but we learned that blood is an intricate part of our bodies.
Muscles are interesting things. They keep us from being a blob on the floor and enable us to move around.
It’s important to keep your muscles nice and healthy. One way is to exercise. You can go running, play soccer or you can make your own weights and start lifting those!
Another great way to keep those muscles big and strong is too fuel them with food.
Protein is an essential food group to help muscles grow.
Tofu is a great source of protein and we visited a tofu factory to learn more about how it’s made.
Everyone got to make their very own container of tofu! We even got to drink some of the soy that made it.
We know that eating the right food can help keep us strong and healthy and it was a lot of fun learning more about it in our second week of summer school.
Summer is almost over, but our students have lots to share about their time at summer school!
Our theme for summer school was health and for each week we broke it done into different topics.
Our first week was all about bones and joints.
We learned all about milk and how it’s good for our bones. Speaking of bones, we made all sorts of crafts and found out lots of interesting facts.
Did you know that an adult human body has 206 bones!
It’s really important to keep your bones strong. One way you can do it is by practicing yoga.
We went to a milk factory to learn all about the processing and benefits of milk for young children.
Milk has lots of calcium which keeps our bones strong and this is really important for growing children.
This cow only gave us water but it was fun milking it.
Our first week of summer school was so good. Everyone came out of it knowing some much about our bones. We know how important it is to keep them strong and what food we can eat to keep them that way.
Tsukimi (moon-viewing), is a festival honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Mid-Autumn Festival which dates back over a 1000 years.
To celebrate the students at Beanstalk made dango.
All of them helped with the mixture of the ingredients.
*squish squish
*shake shake
*mix mix
A little bit of team work to get that mixture just right.
With their mixture thoroughly mixed each student started to make their dango ball shapes.
The dango was now complete ready for cooking!
A quick chance to get some group photos in before eating all that yummy dango.
And then it was time to enjoy their dango.
Everyone really liked making their dango and the best part was getting to eat!
We had a fantastic day celebrating Tanabata here at Beanstalk this week.
The parents and children arrived looking amazing in their yukatas and jinbeis.
The children started to write their wishes ready to hang up on the bamboo tress.
The DeeDee students wrote their wishes all by themselves!
While our younger students had mommy and daddy help out.
With a little help from the parents and teachers the children hung their wishes on branches of the bamboo tree.
After all the wish making the parents gathered in the gym ready to watch the performances.
It was a lovely day and everyone really enjoyed celebrating Tanabata.
Thank you to everyone who came and made it a really special day.