In November, within our Grade 2 unit, Where We Are in Place and Time, students studied how housing, communications and transportation has changed over human history. Students began by investigating the Stone Age, and ended by studying the present day. As a final activity, students worked in groups to create timelines of the changes that have taken place in these three areas over the past 12,000 years.

国語「ものの名まえ」の学習をしました。一つ一つの名前とまとめてつけた名前を学習し、理解した後、お店屋さんごっこをしました。なりたいお店屋さんを決め、一緒にお店をする友達と商品を考えました。そして、商品を描いて作り、セッティングも考え、お店屋さんごっこ当日を迎えました。「いらっしゃい、いらっしゃい。」の呼びかけもしながら、楽しく買い物ができました。

国語で「世界にほこる和紙・伝統工芸のよさを知ろう」を学習しました。熊本や九州の伝統工芸品のリーフレットを作成し、その発展的学習として、伝統工芸館と熊本城の見学を行いました。伝統工芸館で実際に工芸品を見て触れることにより、先人たちが守り、それを現在も大切に引き継いでいることの凄さに感動していました。まだまだ見ていたいと、懇願されましたが、次の訪問先熊本城に向かいました。熊本城では、熊本地震から５年たち、復興し続けているお城の様子を、スケッチしながらじっくり観察しました。

We studied about plastic fabrication in this unit, and as a demonstration of how new substances are made in a lab – we created Prussian Blue! Students now understand that matter is never lost and instead turns into new compounds under the right conditions. Following this experiment, we did a couple of other reactions such as making carbon dioxide. We also made sure to talk about safety and stay protected by wearing gloves and goggles when mixing chemicals.

Within the UOI unit: How We Organize Ourselves（私たちは自分たちをどう組織しているのか), the G1 students were investigating how people use technology to meet their basic needs. For an engagement on ways that technology saves people time, students were challenged to think of their own ideas for time saving inventions. It was decided that students would make their own versions of the “Anywhere Door,” a portal gadget made famous in the Doraemon comic books. Students painted and decorated their doors, then drew a picture of the location they would want to use the door to visit. Students voted and chose to name their invention the “Random Door” because their invention would allow them to visit random locations. Technology is constantly changing and continues to save us more and more time. Who knows, maybe someday we will really be using a Random Door to quickly travel to wherever we wish!

2022年度 新1年生、新2年生、新3年生、新4年生、新5年生の追加募集

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On May 1, 2021, KIS officially became an IB World School for the Primary Years Program (PYP).

I would like to thank all teachers, students, parents and other members of the school community who have supported us in getting to this point.

The IB is the most respected and widely-followed academic program in the international school world, and accreditation validates that a school meets high standards of institutional quality through an ongoing, independent, objective review process.  As an IB World School, KIS joins a community of over 5,000 schools worldwide that offer IB programs.

All IB World Schools share a commitment to developing knowledgeable, caring young people who will be ready to negotiate their futures successfully and make contributions resulting in a more harmonious and peaceful world.

KIS will continue to work to increase the quality of the education that we provide for students, preparing them to succeed wherever they go and whatever they do in their lives.

Thank you again for your support, and I look forward to working together to realize our vision of providing world-class education for our students.

Matthew Ohm

Principal

Kumamoto International School

2021年5月1日、KISは国際バカロレア（IB）ワールドスクールとして正式に認定されました！

Within the Grade 2 How We Organize Ourselves unit of inquiry, students are studying about how we use machines to make our life easier.  

Students have studied the 6 basic simple machines – lever, wheel, pulley, screw, wedge, and incline plane.  Now, they are studying how simple machines make our life easier by reducing the effort required to do work.

Today in class, students learned about how friction increases the work required to drag a load across a surface – by using a simple machine (wheels), students learned that less effort was required to pull a load.

Students discovered that without wheels, approximately 1.5 newtons of force was required to pull the load, but that with wheels, the force required was only 0.5 newtons.