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What's 'Origami' in English?
Yesterday one of the students found my stock of origami paper, and naturally wanted to make something. So I challenged her and the other members of the class to create something using only their memories and imaginations (no instructions!)
The above photo shows the results, we have a clover, a mother and baby fox, a paper bag and a crane. The whole activity was very calm and we managed to use a lot of English while doing it.
Sure beats using my normal game type warm-up which can descend into fight of who is winning and losing.
Oh and one question from this activity "What's origami in English?"
英会話教室のアシスタント募集（金曜日だけ！）
新年期に向けて新しく教室アシスタントを募集します。
子どもクラスで働いてくださる日本人アシスタントを探しています。
仕事内容は主にレッスンのアシストですが、簡単な事務、電話対応もしていただきます。
児童英語教師になる勉強をしている方、経験者は優遇します。
日常会話程度の英語力必須。
子ども好きの方、よろしくお願いします。
勤務地：〒160-0022東京都新宿区新宿7-3-36-102 イングリッシュプール英会話
勤務時間：金 １５：００～１８：００
勤務期間：長期
雇用形態：パート・アルバイト
交通費：なし （近所の方お願いします^^）
時給：￥１０００
Penfriends in Serbia
Towards the end of last year students in our Elementary B classes worked on writing letters to exchange through the Cambridge Penfriends system. We were matched with the Busy Bee Centre for Foreign Languages in Novi Sad, Serbia, and agreed to base the topic around sports.
Busy Bee decided to actually post their letters to us (rather than scan and e-mail them) so it was a huge surprise when we opened the package from Serbia. Inside were twelve beautifully written letters, all in their own envelopes and with some of them containing little gifts of stickers, balloons and other items.
It was such a pleasure to see the efforts the children in Serbia went to, that the next time we swap letters we might have to raise the bar on our won efforts!
I have posted the letters our children sent to Serbia over on the gallery page, enjoy!
Vintage Teaching Puzzles
When we took over the cafe next door, which became The Three Little Pigs, we inherited these two vintage teaching aids.
Until now they have been gathering dust at the back of englishpool, but during a recent clean-up I decided that they would be better on display.
So here they are, enjoy!
Olivia and French Kitty
We were glad to receive these two books from a student's mother to add to our school library. They are Oliva by Ian Falconer
Thank you for the books, I'm sure many our students will enjoy reading them just as much as your children did!
Christmas Party Photos
Thank you to all those students who came to the Christmas Party, I hope you all had a good time.
The photographs we took at the parties are now available to view on the events page. As usual you will need a password, should be in your child's bag, if not please contact me.
英会話教室のアシスタント募集
新年期に向けて新しく教室アシスタントを募集します。
子どもクラスで働いてくださる日本人アシスタントを探しています。
仕事内容は主にレッスンのアシストですが、簡単な事務、電話対応もしていただきます。
児童英語教師になる勉強をしている方、経験者は優遇します。
日常会話程度の英語力必須。
子ども好きの方、よろしくお願いします。
勤務地：東京都新宿区新宿7-3-36-102 イングリッシュプール英会話
勤務時間：木～金 １５：００～１８：００
土 午前中
（週１～３日）
勤務期間：長期
雇用形態：パート・アルバイト
交通費：なし （近所の方お願いします^^）
時給：￥１０００
Christmas Party 2018
We will hold our Christmas Parties on Sunday, 16th December, this year.
Time to dust off the Santa suit and roar Ho! Ho! Ho!
The Animals on the Farm
We're having a lot of fun in our kinder classes with The Animals on the Farm song from Super Simple Songs.
You too can join in the fun by watching the video and sing along below:
Enjoy!
Halloween Party Photos 2018
Better late than never! Finally a selection of the best pictures from the Halloween Parties held on October 28th are available for your viewing pleasure over on our events page, www.englishpool.net/event
You will need a password to access the pictures, which should be in your child's bag. Or you can message (PM) me for the password.
Enjoy!
More...
What's in the Witch's Kitchen?
Having a lot of Halloween fun with the excellent What's in the Witch's Kitchen? book by Nick Sharrat
This year I've had a lot of success using it in the elementary classes, as we've recently been studying house vocabulary; so the book has come in handy to recycle some of the language we've learned.
I've also got to teach them some new words such as 'nasty goblin wee' and 'rabbit plops.' :-)
英語ぷらす listing
Happy to see we are included on a list of nine recommended English schools around Higashi-Shinjuku Station. Thank you to the people at eigo plus (英語ぷらす) for the listing!
The actual page is too long to quote in full but basically they list sixteen points to check for when choosing a school to learn English at. This is point sixteen:
'英語そのものは独学でも学べますが、コミュニケーションスキルである英会話はやはり実際に誰かを相手に使う事でしか身につけることはできません。
そのために英会話教室に通おうと決めた際、「失敗した……」「無駄なお金を使った……」とならないためにも、気をつけるべきポイントをしっかり確認して、東新宿であなたに合った英会話教室を見つけましょう。
きっと楽しく通っているうちに、とても自然に英語で話せていることに気づいて驚く日がやってきますよ！'
Which basically says that, while it's possible to learn English on your own, you can't learn how to have a conservation without having somebody to talk too. So get yourself along to englishpool (or one of the other eight schools) after carefully checking the previous fifteen points.
The link for the orginal page is https://eigo.plus/school/higashi_shinjuku
Trick or Treat
We're loving this Halloween craft, from Super Simple, in our Sprouts and Kinder classes this week. Super easy to make and a great way to learn some simple Halloween vocabulary, as well as introducing Trick or Treat to the younger students.
And that's not all, it even has it's own Trick or Treat song and video..
Enjoy...and Happy Halloween!
Chin-anago
Conversation in one of our upper elementary classes last week:
Me: "What's your favourite fish or sea animal?"
Student: "I like Chin-anago"
Me: "..."
Time to search the internet I thought, a couple of clicks later searching on チンアナゴ and wikipedia had given us a picture and an English name, Spotted Garden Eel.
So now you know. I love it when I get to learn something in my classes too!
