This week’s theme is “clothing”. We will do various activities relating to the theme.We tried making “cloth waraji” today.Japanese Preschool Seattle WashingtonMegumi Preschool

“Invention” is the theme for the English class in our summer camp program. We learned about the invention of the ball point pen. We compared feather pens and ball point pens, and we appreciated the invention.Japanese Preschool Seattle WashingtonMegumi Preschool

Today we tried wood block printing with foam. Nagatomo sensei who majored in art was our instructor. The theme was “summer”. The students picked up various motifs such as fireworks, watermelon, popsicles, etc. It was so much fun making an original copy and printing it. They did not want to stop the ...

The theme for our summer camp program is “life in the edo period”. We learned about “terakoya(school during edo era)” today. We tried the “soroban (abacus)”, one of the traditional basic academic skills; reading, writing and soroban. When the teacher says, “are you ready?” the children started worki...

Today is tanabata. We had a tea party at our summer camp to celebrate tanabata. We enjoyed bitter tea along with sweets(warabimochi) we made yesterday.Japanese Preschool Seattle WashingtonMegumi Preschool

We made warabimochi for the tea ceremony to celebrate tanabata. Maccha green tea and warabimochi, yum!Japanese preschool Seattle WashingtonMegumi Preschool

Starting this year we've started a new volunteer training program. Students from grade 5 -to grade 6 do their best with volunteer work every day. They play with the babies, take care of the sheets for the naptime, clean, and engage in other various volunteer work.Japanese preschool Washington Seattl...

During summer camp, the kids are using chawan (rice bawl) and chopsticks to eat lunch. Even those who are not used to using chopsticks, are taking this challenge and trying their best. They are getting better day by day!!Washington Bellevue Japanese preschoolMEGUMI Pre-school

We have a calligraphy class every Tuesday for our summer camp. The students are learning how to use brushes and pencils with proper form and posture.W...

This week’s (second week of summer camp) there are activities including tanabata (star festival) and hiking. On Thursday, a field trip is planned. On ...