An All-English Preschool in Yokohama.
English classes for 2 years old to elementary school age.

Hello everyone!

Welcome back to Sunrise monthly ‘December’ blog!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, Christmas! We are so excited to share with you this month’s events and activities! We have to say, December is one of our favorite months, probably because Christmas is in December and it’s our favorite holiday as well.

As the weather gets colder, everyone gets even more excited waiting for Christmas to come! But while everyone is waiting, we did a lot of crafts to help make the school more festive!

 

 

 

 

This year, each of our classes has contributed a special Christmas performance and some musical instruments interlude. They all did a great job!

 

 

Sincerest thanks for the kindness of ‘Santa’ who has visited Sunrise School this year, and for handing out bunch of presents that have been shared for our lovely students!

Merry Christmas and Happy New year everyone!

 

Hi everyone,

Welcome to our monthly blog of November!

On November we usually celebrate fall, gratitude, crunchy leaves, golden light, and Thanksgiving. And Yes! This time we had the Thanksgiving party!

Even with all the chaos 2020 has presented us with, there is still so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Here are to another year of giving thanks for all of the wonderful blessings our Sunrise Kids has experienced.

Music Time! 

 

 

We had Bowling and Pin the feathers games. A new perspective on just how grateful we are for the simplest of things to enjoy and celebrate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Thanksgiving Dinner!

 

 

Thanksgiving Presentation!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We know this year has been rough, but we see your strength and wish you all the best this Thanksgiving.

Hello everyone!

 

Welcome back to the monthly blog of October.

 

When we think of October, there’s only one event everyone is excited about! And of course, it’s Halloween!

 
It is the only month when you can see everywhere lots of jack-o-lanterns, spider webs and even monsters! The most special thing in Halloween is that everyone can wear any costumes and can become anything they want to be. It doesn’t need to be scary, you could even be a superhero!

 

Before the October ended, everyone celebrated Halloween and had a big party altogether. We all played and sang our favorite Halloween songs. And all the Caterpillars, Butterflies and, even the teachers, did a Halloween fashion show and had the chance to walk on the runway and do their scariest or cutest poses!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the fashion show, we all went to the park and did trick or treating! Everyone was excited to go look for different monsters to get their treats! A lot of parents also joined the party and made all the kids very happy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone had a blast in the party and doing trick or treating!

 

I hope you and your family also had a fun and spooky Halloween! See you again next month!

Hello everyone and welcome to our monthly special introduction! This month we had the sports day event for the whole school at the Yokohama Gymnasium

 

Amazing kids for a Great teamwork!

 

This is our group Group Gymnastics! Let’s make a pyramid!

 

It was fantastic!!

 

Are you ready? yes we are!!

The Shiny Butterflies did an amazing performance!

Hands in…We did it!

 

Congratulations for such a great performance! Everyone have been practicing hard for this event. You make us very proud of you!

Teachers and children worked super hard to make this day extra special. Thank you all for coming and helping us on our big event! Everyone did their best to make this event possible. We hope everyone had a great time!

 

Hello Everyone!

 

Welcome to the monthly blog of August!

 

As the summer in Japan gets hotter and hotter, everyone here in Sunrise has found ways to enjoy this hot summer.

 

The Caterpillars celebrated their hot summer by having a Shaved Ice Party!

 

Everyone enjoyed doing role play for the party. All the Caterpillars got the chance to run their own shop and also serve their friends. They even had their own Sunrise dollar!

 

They had blue Hawaii, strawberry, and melon flavors! Everyone loved them!

 

 

While the caterpillars were enjoying their shaved ice, the Butterflies were very busy cleaning and sorting their toys and cleaning their classrooms before the summer vacation starts.

After the summer vacation, the Butterflies were so surprised to come back and see their space crafts hanging in the Sunflower room!

 

 

We hope everyone got to enjoy their hot summer this August like everyone did in Sunrise.

See you again next month!

Hello and welcome to July’s special lesson blog!

It was summer this month so to celebrate the hot days finally arriving Sunrise had a wonderful shaved ice party!
Before we had our shaved ice party, we practice role playing at the school. We were all excited to eat cool and refreshing shaved ice with three delicious flavors. ( strawberry, melon and blue Hawaii).

I’m so excited to eat my strawberry shaved ice!

What can you see under the sea? I can see a fish!

What flavor do you like? Please try our strawberry, melon, blue Hawaii. Enjoy!

Its so yummy! we want more!

I want more shaved ice please!

i love my purple tongue!

We had a great time showing off how our tongues changed color when we ate the delicious treat – all in all it was a wonderful day that was enjoyed by all!

 

 

 

 

 

♥Say hello to our beautiful sunflower garden here at Sunrise school.♥

 

Hello everyone！

 

Welcome to the monthly blog of June.

 

June is a special month where we celebrate our dads through Father’s Day. This month, everyone in Sunrise made a special gift for our dads and talked about the things they do for us. We even sang a Father’s Day song, ‘I love him and he loves me too and daddy is his name, oh! D-A-D-D-Y.’ Everyone had lots of fun making crafts and singing for our dads!

 

 

The Caterpillars worked really hard to make tie crafts for their dads!

 

They were very colorful and cute!

 

 

 

The Shiny Butterflies made these big cards for theirs too!

 

They made colorful fingerprint ties and even drew their dads’ faces!

 

 

 

The Fluttery Butterflies made these amazing trophies for theirs for being the best dads ever!

 

 

Here in Sunrise, we would want to thank all the dads out there for always taking care of us and giving us the best love. I hope you enjoyed our crafts as much as everyone did doing them!

 

 

Have a nice day!

Hello everyone and welcome to the monthly blog for May!

May is a month is the best time to plant sunflower, tomato and okra seeds. Planting seeds with the Caterpillars and Butterflies is amazing fun! From May, we like to plant seeds and see the process in which the seeds develop into flowers and various fruits and vegetables.

We Start off by filling pot with pebbles, small stones and healthy soil.

Let’s get started everyone!

  

We put some water on the soil.

This is how its gonna look like. Our beautiful sunflower garden with lots of love!

The kids did great on their memory book! Everybody looks very happy with their work.

We then pose for a photo while wait to see how the seed grows!

So that’s it from Caterpillar class.We are looking  forward to see how our plants grow into a beautiful sunflower.Happy growing! Stay blooming!

Hello everyone and welcome to the monthly blog for April!

April is a month in which many people celebrate Easter. A time when the Easter bunny brings chocolate eggs for everyone to search for and then eat! We continue the tradition here at Sunrise (minus the eating of chocolate eggs) and have lots of fun making baskets to hold our eggs!

We started making our Easter baskets!

Cutting, sticking and decorating!

Glue the sides together!

Adorn the basket with eggs and a handle!

Glue on some colorful lollipop sticks!

The Caterpillars made their baskets using two bowls!

They decorated with crayon and stickers!

Hop little bunnies, hop, hop, hop!

Let’s search for eggs!

I found so many eggs!

Where will the magic egg lead us?

What’s in this basket?

It was a sticky surprise!

 

The Easter Bunny brought us some bunny and egg stickers which we said a big thank you for! We hope everyone had fun and we look forward to a visit from the Easter Bunny again, next year. Take care everyone and keep hopping!

Hello and welcome to the final special lesson blog for this year – and Mr. Martin’s final blog as a Sunrise teacher!

Well, it being March there was only one thing that this blog could be about – graduation! The Fluttery Butterflies prepared well all through March towards their final, special day. They learned their speeches, the practiced the songs (in English and in Japanese!) and they learned where to stand and, most importantly, how to sit nicely! It was a wonderful day for everyone involved and all the Sunrise teachers would like to thank the parents who came along to make the day so special.

We’d also like to give a special big thank you to the parents for the events they planned after the official graduation ceremony. The quiz, songs, and improvised dancing (thank you Ishin!) was lots and lots of fun.

And from me, Mr Martin, I would like to thank the parents, teachers and of course Sunrise Kids who made the last three years so memorable. I wish you all the best for the future.