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

Hello everyone and welcome to the special lesson blog for January!

This month had a big focus on fitness, exercise and friendship as we geared up for our annual Sunrise marathon! There were lots of practice runs at the park and all the hard work culminated in a spectacular event held at Okano Park. So with that, how about we see some pictures from the day.

Ready… Set… Goooo! Of the Flutteries go for their four lap race!

Go Hungries! Two laps under way!

The Littles prepare for an intense lap! And gooo!

Whizzing around the corner!

Fantastic technique!

Don’t give up!

You’ve almost made it!

Congratulations! You finished!

The three Fluttery champions!

The three Shiny champions!

The three Hungry champions!

The three Little champions!

One final group photo to finish the day! Congratulations everyone for all your hard work!

And thank you to all the parents who came and cheered! It was a wonderful day and we look forward to next year’s race! Happy running everyone!

 

 

 

We are all excited for our Christmas Party!

All I want for Christmas is  S.A.N.T.A

We are all ready to sing Deck the halls with our hand bells

 

We want to build a snowman.. (*_*)

We flip the card and it was fun!

cute little SANTA..

 

 

 

We did flip the card game and it was fun!

 

Ho-Ho-Ho! Merry Christmas!

Dear Santa,

What present do you want for Christmas?

I love you  Santa! Merry Christmas!

We love you SANTA! Thank you for the presents!

We hope everyone had fun ! Thank you all for coming and Have a wonderful Christmas to everyone and all good wishes to a happy ,healthy and fun  New Year! A special thanks to Santa Clause for coming to visit us,even though Santa is busy getting ready for Christmas he loves reading each and every message. We want to give a big thanks to our students (Fluttery butterfly, Shiny butterfly, Hungry and Little Caterpillars). We are so proud of you!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New year!

During the month of November Americans celebrate how the English travelled to America and encountered strife before being rescued by the native Indians and subsequently taking the land for themselves. This is the holiday of Thanksgiving. We decided to celebrate this holiday too in which families gather together and have a big feast as a reminder for what the native Indians gifted their ancestors.

 

Cutting and sticking, but what are they making?

A black hat and an orange mouth, what could it be?

It’s a kid, wearing a turkey, wearing a pilgrim hat!

A colour by number turkey. That looks like fun!

Playing a game of pin the feather on the turkey!

A little caterpillar helping a fluttery butterfly!

Getting ready for a big Thanksgiving feast.

I’m hungry, where’s the turkey?

Would you like some melon soda?

Eating a real feast!

 

A fantastic game of turkey bowling!

I got a strike!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

 

And that was our Thanksgiving party! We made hats, we played games and we had a big feast to top it all off!

We hope everyone enjoyed the celebrations and we look forward to having the Christmas party next month!

Hello and welcome to this week’s monthly special lesson blog!

 

Well, there could only be one thing this month is about – Halloween! On Thursday this week Sunrise had our scary, scary Halloween party! Everyone dressed up in their wonderful costumes and had a wonderful fashion parade. Then we went down to Okano park where, helped by some wonderfully kind parents, we had a fantastic stamp rally. There, the Sunrise kids also got some delicious treats and fun toys to play with.

 

All-in-all it was a brilliant day for everyone. We especially would like to thank the parents and friends who helped us out on the big day. Your help is truly appreciated!

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!