SEPTEMBER 2026 NEWSLETTER

September in Tokyo brought lots and lots of rain, 35 consecutive days with rainfall! We’ve sung songs about thunder and raindrops and even songs about the sun but it just kept on raining!

We’ve still managed to stay happy and cheerful and at the start of the September,our guides showed us a big box that was delivered to us. When we opened it, we weren't sure what it was until we were half way through building it! It turned out to be a trolley to store all our lunchboxes and water bottles! We all had a turn with the allen key to turn the screws tight. When the last screw was turned, we all stood back feeling quite proud to have made something together, something that we will use every day.

Spending time cleaning up our garden beds during a rare sunny afternoon was a

treat, pulling out all the overgrown weeds and cutting them up to clear space. We

also received a special gift, a little lemon tree! We are taking care of it and hoping

that one day we will see flowers that will grow into bright yellow lemons.

We checked on our worms inside our indoor wormery, and we were so happy to see that they had stayed healthy and had grown fatter over the summer break! Because of all the rain, we haven't had a chance to put any worms or seeds into our outdoor growing boxes just yet. We are waiting for a sunny day to go out, release our worms into the soil, and then start planting some seeds!

This month, we celebrated Dr Maria Montessori’s 156th birthday! We sat together

and read a story about her life, and found out how she opened the first Casa dei

Bambini in Rome. We were so surprised and excited to see that the children in her

very first school were working with the Pink Tower, exactly the same as we have in our classroom. Even though their tower was a different colour, we recognised it

immediately. Some of us really liked the way Montessori dressed and we drew

pictures of her in long dresses!

This last week, we learned about the artist Louise Bourgeois, what she was like as a child, why she loved spiders, and how she created giant spider sculptures which can be found around the world.

We were so excited to take the bus to Roppongi Hills to visit Maman in person! Standing beneath her gigantic legs, we looked way up and saw the white marble eggs she carries under her body. Some of us remembered Maman as “Spiderman”, spider, mother…. Spiderman! Oh, and we know a secret about our Tokyo Maman: she wears special hidden earthquake shoes beneath the stone floor to keep her steady if the ground shakes!

Regardless of the weather, we have stayed busy indoors, taken walks, and run

around in the park whenever possible. With our garden cleaned up and our worms healthy, we are so excited for October and some cooler sunny weather!