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The Pinocchio Song
Today I introduced our Kinder class students to The Pinocchio Song from Super Simple Songs.
This song has been a staple of our young learner classes for years but today was the first time since the Corona pandemic that I've used it in class. Great song, and after a little hesitation, all the children joined in and had a great time!
Hishashiburi or as we say in English, 'it's been a long time'!!
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A big thank you for the 141,234 views and 600 likes!
I was a little shocked to see that a YouTube video I made two months ago called Whiteboard Marker Magic had had over 130,000 views and received over 580 likes. In the short video I demonstrate how to use a standard whiteboard marker pen, a plate and some water to create a dancing figure.
Aside from the number of views and likes I was also surprised at how countries around the world it had reached. At the last count the video had been viewed (10 times or more) in 95 countries! So I decided to make a thank you video, in which I name the 95 countries alongside a picture of their national flag.
Just in case you are wondering the 95 countries, in order of most viewed are:
India, Russia, USA, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Philippines, Indonesia, Brasil, Turkey, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Germany, Myanmar, France, Italy, Great Britain, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Iraq, Spain, Canada, Argentina, Nepal, Egypt, Taiwan, Morocco, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Czechia, Uzbekistan, Korea, Netherlands, Greece, Australia, Peru, Hungary, Israel, Bulgaria, Belarus, Dominican Republic, Chile, Serbia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Albania, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Sweden, Portuga,l South Africa, Belgium, Armenia, Lithuania, Guatemala, Syrian Arab Republic, Denmark, Singapore, Switzerland, Bolivia, Slovakia, Croatia, Honduras, Tunisia, Oman, Venezuela, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Mauritius, Palestine, State of Kuwait, Austria, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Georgia, Costa Rica, Jordan, Ireland, Qatar, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Finland, Namibia and Norway!
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ポール先生の英語で電気工作教室 (English & Electronics)
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工作しながらプログラミングも英語も習えちゃうお得なコースです。通常の英語教室と違い、年間を通してのプログラムではなく、2か月間で全6回のプログラムになっております。1回目を修了した後は、次のレベルのプログラムに進めます。もちろん1回のみの受講もOK！プログラミンってどんな事？英会話のレッスンってどんな感じ？と思っている方には是非！体験して頂きたいプログラムです。
レッスンは【STEAM教育】の考え方を基に構成いたしました。
S：Science科学
T：Technology技術
E：Engineering工学
A：Arts芸術
M：Mathematics数学の要素を英語レッスンにとりいれています。
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In the Morning
As part of our Saturday Kinder class, which started last week we are using the ever popular Potato Pals to help us learn English.
And if we are using Potato Pals that can mean only one thing...we'll be using the "In the Morning" song as our first TPR activity.
Enjoy!
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Pushing a Pencil through a Freezer Bag full of Water
Watch, and find out if he manages to push the pencil all the way through the polythene bag without springing a leak! Things could get rather wet....
If you'd like to try this at home, all you need is a sharpened pencil, a freezer bag and water.....Oh! And your mother's permission!
This was originally used to get the students talking in one of our Junior High School classes (Paul will do almost anthing to get his students to talk!)
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How to Build the ROB-14391 Pan/Tilt Bracket
In this video Paul shows you how to construct the Sparkfun ROB-14391 pan/tilt bracket. The kit, which is widely available, is an affordable and relatively easy introduction to building something with servo motors. We particually like that all the parts needed are included in the kit, including the actual servos! All you need is to after assembling it is to hook it up to an Arduino and you have a functioning pan/tilt mechanism.
This forms part of a new course coming soon from englishpool.
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What's Inside a Barcode Reader (and How Does it Work?)
In this video Paul tears down, or takes apart, a barcode reader (also known as a barcode scanner.)
He also explains a little of the history of the barcode, and how the barcode reader works by identifying the four main components inside, which are;
a light source
a lens
an image capture device (CCD)
a decoder
This formed a topic for some of our Junior High School classes. The students were invited to take a screw-driver and dismantle the barcode reader, while Paul pointed out, questioned and explained, items of interest. (Paul will do anything to get his students talking!)
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Whiteboard Marker Pen Magic
Want to impress your friends? Teacher? students or classmates?
Well look no further, I've been using this in classes for the past few months, so thought it was time I shared it with you.
Watch this short video to see how to create a dancing stickman using only a whiteboard marker pen, a plate and some water.
Be amazed!
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Queen Celebrates Platinum Jubilee
This week's topic in some of our adult classes has been the platinum jubilee of Elizabeth II. A platinum jubliee means we are celebrating a 70 year anniversay. In this case 70 years since she became queen.
Her 25th anniversary was known as a silver jubilee, her 50th anniversary as a golden jubliee and her 60th as a diamond jubilee.
Thank to Breaking News English for the topic and there's a short news video below reporting on the occassion.
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How to Make a Paper Clip Motor
In this video Paul shows you how to make the worlds simplest, and easiest, electric motor using only two paperclips, a magnet, a battery and some enamelled wire. And while it doesn't have any practical use, it does demonstrate the principle of how electric motors work.
We've built these simple paper clip motors in class before and it's always exciting to see them start spinning....admittedly after quite a bit of adjusting!
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明日から東京都のまん延防止重点措置の実施につき、新宿区の小中学校等で時差登校になる学校もでてきているようです。
イングリッシュプールでは、幸いなことに少人数制のクラスでレッスンしておりますので、引き続き通常通りのスケジュールで参りたいと思います。
対策としては、これまで通りの入出時のアルコール消毒と検温、マスクの着用、教室内の換気、コロナ対策用の空気清浄機の使用を行ってまいります。
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Merry Christmas 2021
Over the years The 12 Days of Christmas song (クリスマスの12日間) has become a bit of a tradition here at englishpool. Every year we would split the children into groups and get them to sing it at the end of our Christmas Party, in front of their parents.
Well that didn't happen last year, and it looked like we'd have to pass again this year...until I had the idea of recording each class sperately and then stitching it all together.
So here it is. Enjoy!
A big thank you to all the children at englishpool for making this possible.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Christmas Adventure
It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas, so, follow along as Paul reads Christmas Adventure from the Oxford Reading Tree series. Where will the magic key take them this time?
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What Animal am I?
With all the other elementary students busy with school activities today, we had a private class today.
Taking the opportunity of only one student turning up, becaue the others were busy with school events, I helped him create this quiz using the Scratch programming interface.
How many can you answer? Click the green flag to start (answers in lowercase only please)
Naturally the Scratch interface was set to English, and all instruction was done in English.
I very proud of his work, and the fact that we got it completed, and working, within the lesson!
(If you can't see above the link is: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/604354232)
If you are interested in learning more about programming in English check our 英語でプログラミングコース for 小学生.
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