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

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

Sunrise International School sports day banner! All face portrait drawn and painted by the kids and teachers

Let’s get started!!

This is our Group Gymnastics ! This is how we do it! Great Teamwork for this wonderful group centipede stunt.

Learning and mastering the pyramid is a great to practice with these amazing kids!

Thank you all for coming and helping us on our big event! The smiles on your faces really means so much to us.

You nailed it! Your dance was really fantastic.

Welcome to the world of gymnastics! This is just the beginning but kids are ready for this fun and challenging task.
Thank you everyone for coming and helping us in this big event. Teachers and children worked super hard to make this day extra special. We want to give thanks to the parents who volunteered to help us arrange the events we really appreciate it. Also, we would like to give thanks for all the good and great parents who inspire their children to show great act of sportsmanship. We hope everyone had a great time!

 

Hello everyone and welcome to the monthly blog for August!

It’s been a very busy month with seasonal school and summer school but we found enough time to get outside and have some splashing good fun! Which brings us onto the topic for this month, POOL TIME!

Yes, we had a heap of fun playing in the pool and simply playing with water. So let’s get right into it.

The older kids first tried jumping over a bar. This was to provide confidence when getting wet and to improve jumping ability.

This exercise really caused a splash with everyone!

But then they tried swimming UNDER the bar! A little more challenging, but much more rewarding.

Some managed to swim even in such shallow water!

The caterpillars also had some serious fun with all the toys!

And the little caterpillars LOVED getting the teachers wet!

These Renaissance lessons gave the Shiny Butterflies all the skills they needed for our Sunrise pool days.

And hopefully they can be put to use outside of the school too.

 

Even the seasonal school kids had a blast getting drenched splashing away!

 

Well that concludes our summer, Sunrise story for this month. It was busy, but exceptionally fun! Throw in the summer holiday and that is a recipe for best month of the year! We hope you had as much fun as we did and look forward to September!

Hello and welcome to this month’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 the big day we practiced hard on what to say and how to ask for some shaved ice. But not only that, we also learned a little bit about shopping and how to buy things.

 

Then, the big day rolled around! We were all able to eat some cool and refreshing shaved ice with a choice of three delicious flavors (blue Hawaii, melon and strawberry.) 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!

 

We’re learning how to shop!

Two buddies at play!

Hello and Welcome to June special blog!

Happy Father’s day to the coolest dad out there! Father’s day is a very special day. That is why we make sure to celebrate this day with a special gift. How can we surprise them? We are going to make necktie!

 

This is a nice necktie for daddy!

I hope my dad will like my MASTER PIECE.

Look! This is my daddy’s face.

I love him and he loves me too and daddy is his name-o. D-A-D-D-Y !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had fun making a very special present for our fathers who mean so much to us. Thanks for being in all of my favorite memories! I love you from the bottom of my heart.

 

Hello everyone and welcome to this month’s special lesson blog! This month we’ll be taking a look at what all the classes planted in their pots. So let’s get to it!

Here at Sunrise, we’re not just interested in the development and growth of the children but the growth of things around us. We notice the changes in the flowers and trees around us but rarely stop to observe exactly what is happening. 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 with a tiny seed.

We put that seed into some soil.

We give it some water.

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

Sometimes you need to start with a smaller pot and less soil.

Sometimes you need a bigger pot with more soil.

But in all cases, you need lots of love.

So that’s it from us. We look forward to seeing how all of our plants grow and we hope you enjoy seeing how well we take care of them. Until next time, happy growing!

Hello and welcome to April’s special lesson blog!

This month everyone at Sunrise put lots and lots of work into preparing for our big Easter party! In the afternoons leading up to the big day, the Fluttery Butterflies (with the help of the Shinies) made beautiful rabbit hats for the entire school to wear. We cut, glued, stapled and learned how to tie two rubber bands together – all very useful new skills! During the week, each class also made their own Easter baskets to put any eggs they found at the party in them. It was lots of work but lots of fun too!

Finally the big day arrived! The Sunrise kids were split into two teams and each team hid their eggs in either Clover or Daisy room. Then the teams switched classrooms and searched high and low for any eggs they could find! It was brilliant fun and at the end of the day each team came away with one victory.

But when we were searching we found some special eggs too! Who could have hidden them in the room? And inside the eggs was a picture of one of the cupboards in Violet room. What was going on???

There was nothing to do but investigate! The Sunrise kids all went into Violet room and, inside the cupboard, they found a delicious stash of eggs, biscuits and candy – all left courtesy of the Easter Bunny! We certainly enjoyed eating them after lunch!

Afterwards we went to the park where we had a great time doing a bunny race. Everyone put in lots of cute effort as we hopped our way across the park.

All in all it was a fantastic day for everyone at Sunrise!

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February has ended and the rainy month of March is now upon us. Let us reflect on all the great times we had this February. On the 22nd of February, we had the long awaited for… Performance Day event!

Performance Day is a big deal, here at Sunrise International School. In Japan, it is often called Tanoshimikai, which roughly translates to “Fun Time Party”, which is fairly accurate. While Performance Day is a big event, that we practice hard for, we still have a fun time practicing for it, and an even greater time with the actual performance!

With their parents coming to the event, the students were very excited and gave their best performance they could. While lines were forgotten and beats to dancing were missed, it was still a great performance that everyone loved! With so many different performances, such as dances, songs, instrumental playing and theatrical plays, the event was outstanding, with friends and family very proud of the students for their special performances.

As you can see, the students really enjoyed having Performance Day, and are excited to impress their parents next year, with an even better event! We can`t wait to see it!

Happy New Year, everyone!!!

We made it into 2019 and that means we’re nearing the end of the 2018 school year. But that we’re not quite there yet so we need to stay busy and finish the last couple of months strong!

We started the month (and the year) by talking about and depicting our adventures from the winter holiday. Some of us went to shrines, some of us watched fireworks and some of us even went camping! But no matter what we did, we all had lot’s of fun! So let’s see what some of us did.

A trip to see grandpa and grandma led to receiving otoshidama!

A camping trip led to making new friends and building a snowman!

Happy New Year from the Little Caterpillars!

We used paint and paper to create a beautiful fireworks display!

Very colorful fireworks indeed!

Incredible artistic skills displayed by the Shiny Butterfly class!

Family visits and trips abroad. We all had lots and lots of fun!

So there you have it. A wonderful holiday spent doing all manner of things. We also started performance day practice but that’s a secret.

Hello and welcome to this month’s special lesson blog!

This month at Sunrise we’ve been focused one very special day – Christmas! We’ve been working hard learning some wonderful songs, we’ve made some beautiful craft and some stunning hats! It was lots of work heading into the big day but we’re pleased to say that everything came together superbly.

And what could be better on Christmas than a special visit from the big man himself – Santa! Everyone here was thrilled when he arrived and shared some beautiful presents with us all!

We hope you had a great Christmas too and enjoy a well-earned winter break!

 

 

 

 

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November has finally come to an end and now Christmas is right around the corner. Although November has finished, we still have some amazing memories from this month, especially our amazing Thanksgiving Party!

 

For those of you, who are not familiar with Thanksgiving Day, it is a special holiday in the United States of America, where we gather together with all our friends and family, join together for a huge feast, and give thanks for all the good things we have in our life. This tradition stems all the way back, when pilgrims from Europe came to North America, and were saved by the Native Americans, by helping the pilgrims survive the harsh winter. Afterwards, the pilgrims and Native Americans gathered together with their friends and family, and had a large feast together, using all the different foods they grew as well as any fish or meat they caught. The reason they had this feast was to “Give Thanks” for helping each other and was celebrated each year, usually before Winter, where food was harvested/hunted, and became the holiday Thanksgiving.

 

We carry on this tradition each year now, as Thanksgiving Day. Since the students are thankful for so many things, we decided to have our own Thanksgiving party here in Japan, so the students can talk about what they are thankful for, as well as have a nice meal together with friends.

 

 

The students even created amazing paper crafts of traditional Thanksgiving foods! They created peas, mashed potatoes, corn, bread rolls, pumpkin pie and of course…TURKEY!

 

As you can see, the students really enjoyed having Thanksgiving with their friends and teachers, and they seem very excited for next year`s event.