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Messe 2017
These are the books I will be reading from 12:10 today as part of the Shinjuku Kosodate Messe.
Hope to see some of our students later.
Shinjuku Kosodate Messe 2017
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is the 8th Shinjuku Kosodate Messe.
The festival of all things young children related will be held at the Cosmic Center in Shinjuku, from 10:00 to 15:00.
As well as many organisations showcasing their services, there will be a selection of performances on stage. The guests performing on stage include Kenichiro Tanimoto of NHK fame, a recital by members from the Tokyo-Ongaku-University, The Diamond Lilies and me....
... well, not on the main stage but in the Yutari Hiroba where I'll be reading aloud a couple of books in English. I'm on-stage from 12:00 to 12:25, so if you can't face the lunch queue at McDonalds come and support me.
More details of the books I'm going to read to appear later, and for more details on everything Messe related please check their blog at kidsmesse.blogspot.jp or the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/shinjukumesse/
Thank you.
New Books
I've just upgraded the school's library software to the latest version of Koha. Up until now we've been using Koha 2.2.9 which I installed 8 years ago! The new version(Koha 16.11.8), took a little bit of effort to install and configure but is streets ahead of our old version.
And to celebrate the upgrade I've added some new books to the school library. Titles added today Mr Gumpy's Motor Car
Enjoy!
英会話教室のアシスタント募集
新学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
勤務時間：火～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
8th Shinjuku Kosodate Messe
After a break last year, I realised that I really missed taking part in the Shinjuku Kosodate Messe. So this year I'm back with my book reading slot, I've got 15 minutes so that will probably mean three books...as yet undecided.
Of course the work that goes into planning the Kosodate Messe starts almost as soon as the last one is over, and continues throughout the year. Last week's meeting saw the final versions of the flyers printed and distributed, and some of the fine points of the big day finalised.
Just need to decide which books to read before June, 11th!
スプラウツ クラス OPEN
火曜日15:00－15:45 3歳－年少児クラスの生徒大募集！！
言葉を最も吸収するこの時期に、日本語だけでなく英語も一緒に覚えちゃおう！
まずは身近にある食べ物や色、形、数、動物、人などなど、いったい英語ではどう言うんだろう？
歌、リズム遊び、ゲームなどで楽しく学びましょう♪
恥ずかしがりのお子さんもお母さんと一緒のクラスだから大丈夫！
お母さんもお子さんと一緒に英語をブラッシュアップしてくださいね＾＾
英語の絵本の貸し出しもしています。
ご家庭で英語を使って育児をしてみたい方のサポートも致します。
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A Killer Whale and a Flower
Not the title of a new children's book but two presents that I received yesterday from two students in the Kinder class.
'Is it for my birthday?' I asked (even though my birthday is in January). 'No' they both replied. It seems the killer whale was just cool and the cherry blossom was just pretty.
Thank you anyway!
New School Year
It's the beginning of April, so here in Japan that means a New School Year.
It also means englishpool on a short Spring break, from March 31st to April 7th. Classes will start again on Saturday, 8th April.
If you haven't already picked up one of our handy little calendars for 2017/2018, you'll find them on the shelf near the entrance.
And finally a big congratulations to our students who are entering new schools this week.
Body Parts
February saw the Kinder and Elementary A classes focusing on parts of the body.
While teaching the names of various parts of the body is important it's usually difficult to get the children to retain the vocabulary. Even the ubiquitous 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' often fails to make a lasting impression aside from teaching them 'kneezza' the combined sound of 'knees and ...' !
So this year in our Elementary A classes we tried creating something a bit more impressive, we had one student lie down while we traced their outline onto some big sheets of paper. The students then had to label the different parts of the body as a team exercise. Aside form a few requests from some of the children (especially the boys) for extra body part naming, it was great fun!
Mount Fuji
One of our students gave us this as a present last week.
Can you tell what it is? The shape is of course Mount Fuji, or Fuji-san, and the contents are youkan (a Japanese sweet made from beans.)
In Japan Mount Fuji pops up everywhere but this is the first time I've seen it depicted in youkan!
They were delicious by the way!
More...
One Yellow Fish
Shiori, one of our lesson assistants, visited New York recently and she brought back this book as a present.
One Yellow Fish by Linda Kranz, features, as well as the aforementioned yellow fish, other fish of different colours, sizes and shapes.
It makes a great addition to our ever expanding library of children's English language books. There are over 1100 titles in the library so far, all available for englishpool members to borrow.
As well as a selection of board books for younger children, we have the complete set of Oxford Reading Tree, titles from Jolly Phonics, Rigby Star ans Collins Big Cat readers. So there's something for everyone to enjoy.
Valentine's Day Chocolate
I was very happy to receive this little bag of hand made chocolates form one of my students today.
Especially as she had written the message in English.
Thank you very much!
15th New Year Kids Museum
Last Saturday, 11th February, saw the 15th New Year Kids Museum event held at the Ushigome Tansu Centre. We were proud to be able to support the event through placing two advertisements in the event pamphlet, one for englishpool and one for The Three Little Pigs.
This annual event is organised by Shinjuku Kodomo Gekijo, and as well as featuring performances from the various circles under the Shinjuku Kodomo Gekijo umbrella (including Kobuta wadaiko, The Diamond Lilies gospel group) there are also performances from other organisations run for children in Shinjuku-ku (including Unicycle Shinjuku Azalea, Yuttarino and Shinjuku Junior Leaders.)
I am always surprised at the high quality of the performances and the professionalism of the event, and this year was no exception. It really is amazing what can be achieved by people volunteering their time and energy.
P.S. Next year I'll try and write this kind of post before the event...to encourage you to attend, like.
英会話教室のアシスタント募集
新学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
勤務時間：火～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
