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Venus Flytrap
I was so proud of one of our 4th grade elementary students, when he handed me this description of a Venus Flytrap plant, (or ハエトリ草 in Japanese.)
After all the hard work he, and apparently his dad, had put into writing the description we just had to put it on display in the classroom!
Over the weekend I added a ビデオサポート page to the englishpool website. As mentioned in earlier posts, this year we are using the Happy Valley textbooks in our young learner classes, and the folks at Happy Valley have produced a plethora of videos to support the work done in the classroom. I'd like the students, or their parents, to able to easily access the relevant video easily. We already have our own englishpool YouTube channel with playlists for スプラウツ and キンダー, so with the help of the nx-YouTubeBox module from NX-DESIGNS, adding these playlists to the site was a breeze.
The page is available to view here, http://www.englishpool.net/video-channel
So now it's now super simple for parents to be able to watch the videos with their children. Enjoy!
Bill & Ben
Today in our Cafe class one of the students said she had been pulling the 雑草 (zasso) out at her child's school as part of her duties.
Now ざっそ(zasso) means weeds in Japanese and so, she had been weeding at her child's school. While I was explaining this to group I couldn't get the image of Bill & Ben out of head, so here's the original programme featuring Bill, Ben and Weed.
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May I have some _____, please?
As part of our upper-elementary classes we have been practising making polite requests. Now, I'm a big fan of using realia (real life objects or situations) in the classroom; so what better than to prepare a load of snacks and have the children make polite requests in order to eat them!
You can hear the results in the accompanying video.
Thank you to the Explore Our World Level 3 textbook for the inspiration.
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This week the Kinder classes have started learning all about the sea animals that live at the aquarium. Join Kinka and Pinka as they take a trip to see the dolphins, penguins, whales, sharks and seahorses.
Don't be scared of the shark, Kinka!
As always thank you to the team at Happy Valley for making the videos available online.
Insey Winsey Spider
Here's a video of a Insey Wincey Spider craft we made last Saturday in the Kinder class.
Over the years this simple Insey Wincey / Itsy Bitsy / Incy Wincy Spider craft has served me well in many classes, especially around June time because of the rainy season here in Japan. The keen-eyed amongst you may recognise it's based on the Insey Winsey Spider game from Orchard Toys.
If you'd like to download this simple spider song craft, here's a link to the printable file:
Free Printable Insey Wincey Spider Craft.(PDF 173KB)
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A nice surprise
I received this wonderful drawing (of me) last week from one of our young learners.
Thank you, it really made my day,
Jobs Crossword
Last week I challenged my elementary B & C students to this job vocabulary crossword as part of a review of the words learned in Explore Our World Level 3, Unit 1. The clues are in Japanese but the answers require English!
Crossword Puzzle
This week in the Wednesday Elementary class I challenged them to complete this crossword. The vocabulary is taken from Macmillan English Level 1 Unit 2. The clues are only in Japanese to make it easy for the students...or to challenge your own Japanese skills!
test xword
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In Unit 2 of Happy Valley level 2 our Kinder children are practising the names of places around town, such as supermarket, restaurant, hospital etc.
Visualising a map at this young age is maybe a little difficult, so I made these folding tent cards which we can use with an old Ikea playmat.
Needless to say it's been an instant hit with our students, encouraging them all to not only move the car, bus or truck to the correct place but also to actively participate in deciding where the next student should go!
"Let's go to the beach!", "Okay!"
Sprouts Chirashi
We finally finished designing the Sprouts Class chirashi. It took a lot longer than expected!
We also gave the Sprouts Class it's own page on the englishpool website which you can find here:
www.englishpool.net/course/sprouts
Thank you!
It's that time of year again, and the nearest kindergarten, 戸山幼稚園, has asked if we'd display one of their posters.
Always happy to help, not just because it's a local business but also as a lot of former and future children have come from there.
Maybe englishpool should work on a poster...
カフェオレ
The title 'Cafe au lait', known as カフェオレ in Japanese, sounds like it should be on my other business's blog over at The Three Little Pigs.
But actually it's a gift from one of our students from her hometown of Koriyama, in Fukushima prefecture. And it's not a carton of actual cafe au lait but a box of chocolate snacks!
Thank you!
