This is the first week of parental observations here at Amity!
My P3 students on Wednesday were so excited to have their moms in class with us!
It was so much fun watching the girls show off to their moms!
They repeated well and answered all the questions, especially when mom was asking!
They did such a Good Job!
One of the girls "Ha" didn't want mom to come up to the big pad, it was so funny.
She gestured for mom to sit down, while she tapped on the screen.
It was a really funny moment. Mom and I laughed so much.
She even said "No mom" Then changed to "Yes, Yes yes!"
It was such a great lesson and I am looking forward to all the Parental Observation
lessons this week and next week!
- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
This week marks the start of our parent observations! Our teachers have been working hard to get everything ready to show off to parents how wonderful their student is!
Some of the students have been a bit nervouse, knowing that Mom or Dad will be right there in their lesson, but other students have seemed beyond excited.
When I told one student `T` that Mom would be watching his class next week, He immediatly jumped up and looked out the window asking "Teacher, Now please?" He felt super confident about the language in that lesson and wanted to show mom right away the fun activities we did.
I look forward to seeing them all get to show off, and to hearing the Parents` feedback!
-Jordan Sensei
■年少～年長の皆様
☆期間：6/18(火)～6/22(土)
☆レッスン：Unit3 Lesson2
■小学生～高3生＞ ※文法、英検クラスは除く
☆期間：6/25(火)～6/29(土)
☆レッスン：Unit3 Lesson3
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アミティーの授業参観は、親子参加型のレッスンですので、保護者の皆様もレッスンをお楽しみください♪
One of things, I've been trying to figure out was how to give my students more access to interesting words, even when they are not at Amity.
Reading is a fundemental skill for English and many of my Highschool students struggle with vocabulary, which inturn affects their reading. So I came up with the vocabulary bank. Each students has allocated a number of pages, or a notebook and the goal is to bank as many English words as possible.
Mainly ones that are new and that they do not understand. They then translate them and make their own sentences. These get presented to me on lesson days. They then wrack up points and those can be redeemed for no homework weeks, or getting to asking me questions on any topic they like. They can also withdraw words from me, but those then don't count towards their overall goal, as they must source these words themselves. So far it has been working moderately but I would like to do better, hopefully introducing more incentives will enthuse them more!
- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
みなさんこんにちは！
本日は、小学校低学年のグループレッスンのお話をいたします。
小2と小3が集まっているこのクラス。
みんなとても活発で、いつも元気よく発話してくれます。
最近はみんなで協力して答えを探すことも増え、4月よりもより一層中が深まりました。
ある子は、アミティーだといつもの何倍も元気よく話している様子が見られます！
そんな様子をしっかり見てもらうために、アミティーには授業参観がございます。
いつもとは違ったお子様の雰囲気を見れるだけでなく、保護者様にも実際にレッスンを体験していただきます！
そしてみんなはいつもと違った雰囲気の中でも、来てくださった方々へ、成長している姿を見せつけましょう！
参観日まであと少し…
それまでにたくさん見せる練習をしようね！
福田
Leading up to the Summer, we decided to start a vote on what is the favourite Summer time activity.
Going to Festivals, Going to the Beach, Traveling or Eating Summer Food.
This is a way for us to see what students like to do during the summer (apart from homework).
It has been fun seeing students cast their votes and learn a little something more about what they enjoy
and which summer festival activities are their favourites!
So far Summer Festivals has been winning by a landslide!
So if you haven't yet, please cast your vote by reception and let's see who will be awesome by popular demand!
- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
みなさんこんにちは！
本日は、小学校低学年のプライベートクラスのお話をいたします。
小3のSくん。
身体を動かしたり、書いたりすることが得意です！
今回の構文は"What are these/those?" "They are ～s."という文でした。
レッスンで出てくる、chopsticks(箸)や、plates(お皿)を使って、おはじきをとるアクティビティをしました！
もちろん、They are chopsticks.やほかのつかむものを使って文章発話をしてもらったのち、ポイントを英語でカウントしました！
真剣にものをつかむときと英語を話す時でメリハリができてとても集中できていましたね！
また楽しいアクティビティをしながら英語を学んでいこうね！
福田
When training or studying to be a teacher, we get told to do things a certain way, be a certain way and say certain things. We get told to use the textbook, use the lesson plan and stick to the material, however as most teachers know, it doesn't always lead to the best results. Last Week I had a class with one of our previous Amity students, who has just become a fully fledged teacher now! I am very proud of him! We had a conversation about how his classes were going and some of the struggles he was facing being a new Highschool teacher.
It is always remarkable to see how dedidcated he is to improving himself! He even said he needs more knowledge. I don't think he has realized just how knowledgeable he actually is yet! "H" has always been full of interesting facts and enjoys learning about different things and subjects!
I advised him to find the fun in his lessons! This is to get his students to engage more. Getting to know them and making the environment interesting! I told him to stop relying on the textbook or lesson plan and rely on himself more. Bring in games and activities to encourage his students to participate, rather than just asking questions. What's imprortant is not the material but the students themselves. I hope my advice helps him become the type of teacher he would have liked to have in Highschool. I know he can do it!
- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
This week We had a new Prospective student come through our halls, He was very small, and very shy, but very sweet.
He already new many colors and words in english, and he repeated after me as we colored together.
What really blew me away with this little superstar was when he saw the Dinosaur storybook in our little library, I started to read it to him, and he started to repeat after me!
Not just one or two words at a time, but a whole sentence!
two npteably long sentences were
"I roar and I stomp, I growl and I romp" with all the dinosaur sounds
and "I am the king of the dinosaurs"
I was so impressed!
-Jordan Sensei
My student "S" has been making slow and steady progress with her Eiken lessons every week.
It has been an interesting journey watching her grow into her English skills as she navigates the new Eiken 2nd grade writing,
as well as trying to get ahold of new vocabulary and getting everything to make sense.
Even though everything seems to be moving slowly. She has been improving every single week.
Sometimes by a lot, sometimes by a little bit!
She is consistently making progress. Where she struggles, we stop, re-evaluate and then she makes progress again.
I am so proud of how diligent she is. How hard she keeps trying. I assign her a variety of homework,
for different aspects of her writing, reading and vocabulary and she keeps amazing me with how well
she is adjusting to the work I give her! She recently scored 95% on her school test from 88%!! That is a leap!
She only keeps getting better!
- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
