みなさんこんにちは！
今回は小学校低学年プライベートレッスンのお話をいたします。
小2のSくん。体を動かすことが大好きで、レッスン中も積極的に体を動かしながら発話をしています。
今回はcan/can'tの文章発話で、動詞の絵が書いている紙を隠して探し出すアクティビティをしながら練習していました。
数をカウントするときの英語はもちろん、まだ隠し終わっていないときに"Not yet!"という風に発話をしてくれました！
また、"Here you are." "Thank you."は当たり前に発話しています！
これからも日常会話で使う英語も積極的に学んでいきましょう！
福田
We often overlook the small steps forward in favour of the giant leaps. These almost invisible steps get overshadowed
that we forget to acknowledge all the little bits and pieces we have accumulated along the way.
Every little bit counts, especially when learning. Over the last week, I have watched the tiny steps students
have made towards their langugae goals.
From my baby students saying their frist words like "hat, apple, banana, book or gentle". Enthusiastic Dads getting ready to learn with them: "I'm ready Sensei!" Energetic elementary school students telling me "I'm great and hungry" or the older ones laughing and saying "you are Ticky-Ticky Boom Boom, mango deluxe" (When someone is acting silly in class).
Junior Highschool students making jokes and giving eachother nicknames like "Gra-gra Fa" (Great-grand father or "Shy Boy". Highschoolers having hilarious banter while playing English card games "this game is rigged". The mature adult students explaining their views about sports popularity: "I don't really consider these types of things".
All these tiny steps keep adding up, week by week. Month by month and soon they will yeild wonderful success!
It is a truly humbling and rewarding experience, watching it all take place.
- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
Computers are fantastically useful things, but learning to use them can be difficult.
Every Wednesday I teach a computer class for elementary students, and each of them has made so much progress I`m blown away.
`M` is a proud student who doesn`t like to admit she needs help, but she has slowly warmed up to asking me for hints and ideas, and because of this she has been able to reach challenge levels with fun activities she would have otherwise missed, and these challenges have improved her typing a lot! She used to have a lot of trouble matching upper and lower case letters together or finding them on her keyboard, but now she is getting almost perfect scores on typing challenges.
next to her is `S` who is a wonderfully creative student but isn`t fond of Writing, she especially loves music activities and so we have agreed that if she can get a full score on writing challenges, she gets to play the music game as many times as she wants, she still has trouble matching some letters, but she is showing a lot of progress and looks forward to classes.
after that is `Y1` and `Y2`, Y1 has built an impressive vocabulary very quickly this year and has a fantastic memory, I glance at his notebook sometimes and see page after page after page of words, in phonic groups, or grouped by meaning. and any Spelling challenge that comes up, he completely aces, getting perfect score in typing challenges on the highest difficulty.
Y2 is clever and sweet, she is quick to understand instructions and excellent at writing, but reading still challenges her a lot, so I have been pushing her to focus on reading the instructions out loud and working with her on pronunciation, she has blown me away in the Geography challenge, pulling together some very long, difficult to pronounce country and city names.
All in all, the group is absolutely wonderful, they`re energetic and come with their own challenges, but each works incredibly hard to show what they can do.
-Jordan Sensei
みなさんこんにちは！
本日は、小学校高学年、プライベートレッスンの参観についてお話いたします。
小6のKくん、プライベートレッスンなので、いろんな話を英語でしています。
お昼に何を食べたか。週末何をしたか。その日習った国に行きたいか。そこで何をしたいかなどなど…
過去形を積極的に使って、英語で返答してくれています！
文章作成もスムーズに！
そして、文章の読みはほぼ100%一人ですべて読めます。素晴らしい！
今回は家族についてのお話だったので、お母様と、一緒に暮らす家族だけでなく、おじさんやおばさん、親戚まで話を広げてもらいました！
プライベートならではの参観でしたね！
引き続き読み練習、頑張りましょう！
福田
Yesterday was the last day of Parental Observations!
Thank you to all the parents and guardians who took the time to come and observe our lessons over the past two weeks.
It has been a pleasure having all of you in our classes! While some of the students were shy and nervous about it,
I know they were thrilled to show off what they have learned since the last vist!
We hope that everyone was pleased with the progress the students have made, as much as we are.
Learning a new language is very challenging and the students do their best, every lesson!
Thank you for coming over and having fun with us.
We look forward to having you over for another visit next year!
- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
It can be a bit scary moving into a new class where everyone is already friends,
Doubly so when you can`t easily ask for help in your own language.
Despite this, I have two students in my elementary class who have only been with us for a few weeks now, `T` and `Y` have both joined halfway through the year into a large group that know each other well.
`T` settled very quickly, recognizing some students from school, but he was very shy to speak and often lets the other, more experienced students speak over him, however more recently he has begun to speak up clearer and clearer, We got to show mom during the observations how much he can already say and do.
`Y` has had it a little harder, she didn`t know anyone in the class, and is very clever but quiet in a very loud group, But I have been very happy to see her open up, connect with a classmate and have fun in lessons. Now every time I see her she has a cheerful smile on her face and excitedly greets me and her classmates.
I look forward to seeing both come out of their shells more and be the wonderful, confident students I know they can be.
-Jordan Sensei
みなさんこんにちは！
今回は小学校低学年の参観日の様子をお届けいたします。
土曜日のクラスの6人の女の子たち。
完璧に文章を作成できた子、質問を自分の力で言えた子、受け答えを完璧にできた子…
保護者様がいることで緊張した人もいたかなと思います☻
そんな中、みなさんそれぞれのゴールに向かって頑張りました！
前回よりもかっこいいところ、見せれましたね！
また来年の参観日ももっと進化したみなさんをお見せしましょう！
福田
It's hard saying goodbye and even harder when the time spent seems to be so short. One of my favourite students has left to focus on studying for her University entrance exam in a couple months. Friday was the second lesson without her and it feels somewhat strange. Even the other students have begun to feel the absence of "M". She is a very smart, capable and interesting student. Her insights during our free conversations will surely be missed. Her epic fashion sense too! I have bought 2 outfits based on her recommendations! I am hoping to keep the spirit of our lively classes intact, but it is difficult, when you've molded the class dynamic a certain way.
Changes are hard, but they are also new opportunities to make things better! I hope she knows how proud we all are of her!
I know she will do well and definitely succeed in pursuing her dreams and becoming just as outstanding as she was at Amity!
- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
In the past few weeks, one of my younger students has been very confused, her classmate has moved to another lesson and she is now the only student in her class.
Despite this, `K` has been forever focused on her English, she asks in English "Where is ----?" and then keeps busy with her homework while she waits.
Once class starts K seems a little lonely but she has definitely like having the extra talking time, we can play games for longer and she gets more time to work on her pronunciation.
Because of this K has shown a lot of progress in only two weeks, and We hope that Mom will be very excited to see it during her Observation lesson.
Sometimes studying alone can be lonely, but sometimes it can be very helpful.
-Jordan Sensei
みなさんこんにちは！
今日は木曜日の幼児クラスのお話をいたします。
今年年中のMくんとNちゃん。
前回の参観日では少し恥ずかしくていつもより静かだった二人が、今回の参観日では、たくさんいいところを見せてくれました！
お天気のパートもsunnyやwindyといった文字だけでカードを見つけ、こうぶんの"It's a 色 乗り物."の文章を一人で完璧に言えました！
これには参加してくださった保護者の皆様もびっくり！
普段からたくさん練習してきてよかったです！
これからもお父さん・お母さんにいいところ見せましょうね！！！
福田
