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This past Saturday we had a really great time with the children and parents at our first event of the year.
9月の最終サタデースクールの日、保護者の方々を招いてイベントを行いました。

The upper level children all played a game of English BINGO! with the help of their parents.
It was great to see the children recognizing the words so quickly and working with their parents to read them together.

大きなジムでお父さん、お母さんと一緒にBINGOをしています。
単語を聞いて、自分のBINGOカードにその単語があるのかを探す。一見単純に見えますが、聞いた音で文字を探すのはとても難しい作業なのです。
サタデースクールで学んでいる子どもたちの成長を目の前で見ていた保護者の方から笑顔がこぼれていました。

We also played an exciting gym game called “line tag”.
The parents had a chance to be the ‘demons’ and chase the children around the gym.
There was a lot of laughing and screaming and I think everyone had a really great time with it.

またShotaが親子で楽しめるゲームを教えてくれました。
お父さん、お母さんが「オニ」になって子どもたちを追いかけます。
写真を良く見ると、引かれたライン上だけ移動ができるというルールが設定されています。
ルールをきちんと守りながら全力で遊んでいた子どもたちでした。

For the younger children we played a game of ‘hot potato’ where we passed some things around the circle and had to tell each other what the object was. When the music stopped the teacher went to ask the children holding the toy what they had and all the children did an excellent job of shouting the answer out in a big voice.

小さい月齢のクラスでは、「ホット　ポテト」というゲームをしました。
みんな大きな声で答える事ができました！


We also had a music performance for each level and the children had a chance to sing a few songs for their parents.

MusicクラスのEriと一緒に学んだ歌を披露してくれました。とっても元気がよく、歌に込められた気持ちが伝わってきました。


The younger children also got to do a little dance for their parents along with their music performance.

まだまだ幼いこのクラスでも、Eriと一緒に少しダンスも交えながら一生懸命歌っていました。

Overall it was a really fun day and we were glad to see all of the parents coming out to see their children enjoying their time here with us.
Thank you for all of your support this year and we look forward to seeing you in March!
来年3月には参観日も控えております。また、保護者の皆様にお会いできるのを楽しみにしています！

Written by Jonathan
  

One of the most important features of learning about writing and producing written English is being able to properly spell the word you are trying to show to your audience. So, every day, we try to have a quick spelling test before the children continue with spelling activities and games.


In this experiment, the children continued to load full bottles of water on top of a table and try to pick it up with a partner. After 42 bottles, the children could no longer lift the table. It weighed 111kg!

Eric
  

Monday Flyers (grade 3 & above)>

Here is a typical day in our class.
Each lesson is carefully planned by the teacher by using the 'Teacher's Book' and the 'Student's Textbook' as reference.


We start the class by presenting a simple speech in front of everyone.


We do a lot of reading, especially reading out loud in a big voice.


Answering questions in the book requires a lot of thinking. We write directly in the book.


Playing games is fun and also gives the students a chance to communicate in English naturally.


We draw and write in our journals too.


An hour and thirty minutes passes quickly in our English class!

Written by Elaine