Bringing up thoughtfulness, kindness and geniality of the heart

If our kids are growing without a nice and thoughtful heart, that is pretty sad. If that happened, it might be because they were growing up without a chance to meet people who have a thoughtful mind. This is also a sad situation for our society because we might be losing our kindness of human nature. And unfortunately, these chain reactions show up on weak people like kids as a negative chain.
By the way, I think we have both ‘egoism’ and ‘altruistic’ in our mind, and I would say that ‘altruistic’ means having wide vision and being able to make the right decisions. And you can also say that’s a thought that ‘good for others’, so it’s easier to get somebody else’s help. Furthermore, people who have this sort of mind think of others and even live for others, so they can find a purpose in their lives and can feel comfortable in their heart.
I think ‘thoughtfulness’, ‘kindness’, ‘geniality’… these words have in common with ‘altruistic’. So why do we start up with making a good environment to bring up the kids’ hearts at school and home?

Reading-aloud meeting for elementary school section

Our elementary school students had a ‘Reading-aloud meeting’ on January 21st. The kids presented their world of the stories and poetry that they made with the teachers, and enjoyed the beautiful sounds and rhyme of Japanese through reading aloud.
We are limited to be able to have a meeting like this that the kids have a chance to interact with other kids in other grade.
In school in Japan, we value having school meetings and student council meetings to develop an understanding of belonging together and a sense of group solidarity, to make a good student life together and to make a better school life as one of a student in the school.
I believe this learning presentation that was held in November and this reading aloud meeting encouraged them to be ambitious for school life, having a responsibility as an older kid and even admiration for the upper grade students.
When they finished the meeting, I gladly heard our kids saying ‘That was a good learning from the older kids.’, ‘That story was awesome!’, ‘I want to try harder things next year.’

Announcement

From library

When you scan your library card next time, please check your check-out history on the screen
There have been some problems with book return process through January 14th . When you check out the books next time, please make sure that the books you already have returned are processed correctly and don’t appear on the current check-out list. If your returned books were not correctly processed, please look for those unprocessed books in the library and bring them to the return table if you can find them. Thank you so much for your cooperation.
If you have upper grade students who go to the library without parents, please let them know this.

We need your old books for the winter bazaar on February 18th!
If you have unneeded books, magazines, cartoon comics, stationary goods (unused), please donate them for our winter bazaar. You can bring them to the cafeteria in the morning on Feb. 18th.

Winter bazaar will be the last day to sell the note books
Unfortunately we won’t sell note books at the library after the bazaar. If you need one, please buy one now or at the bazaar.

From the year book committee

Year book’s order dead line is Jan. 29th! Will be soon!
Our year book’s online order will be end on Jan. 29th. Please don’t forget to order by this time! It will no longer available after that.

Website link
http://jostensyearbooks.com/?REF=A01085467

Because of your help, we only have 30 books left to hit our sales target. How about one for your family or relatives? You are welcome to order more than one!

If you have problems ordering online, we also take orders with check or cash at the teacher’s room.

If you have any questions about the year book, please ask Mrs. Ohmoto
zzzryokozzz@gmail.com