As you may know, for this month’s speech class we’ve been mainly practicing the songs 12 days of Christmas (shortened to 6 days of Christmas) and Little drummer boy.
Despite being very difficult songs to memorize, especially for Japanese children with no English background, our Elementary students have mastered all of the lyrics through days of practice, and we just cannot help but feel very proud.
今月Lucky GemsとSpeech classでは主に12 days of ChristmasとLittle drummer boyという曲を練習してきました。覚えるにはとても難しい曲でありながら、皆練習を重ねに重ねて今となってはほぼ完ぺきな状態です♪♪スタッフ一同、とても誇らしく思っています（＾＾）
Lucky Kids International Children’s Academy in Kodaira
ラッキーキッズ インターナショナル チルドレンズ アカデミー
Let’s learn English together! 小平で一緒に英語(英会話）を学ぼう！
Last Saturday for Brilliant Crystals class, the kids had fun trying to spell their names out with our alphabet stamps. Although some of them needed help, most of the kids were able to spell out their own names with the alphabet.
We have been practicing for the Christmas presentation a lot these days, most of the students know the songs and the dance moves by heart.
This is a photo of the students singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
クリスマス会に向けて沢山練習をしている成果がみえてきました！何度も何度も歌って踊って。すっかり上手になってきたサファイたちです。
In the afternoon at the park, Sapphires played with the cans pretending to be elephants. This is a Japanese traditional outdoor play, which most of the children now a days don’t have the chance to experience. It was very tricky using hand and eye coordination but they got the hang of it after practicing for few times!
戸外遊びでは缶ぽっくりを像さんの足に見立てて遊びました。日本の伝承遊びのひとつである缶ぽっくりですが、最近ではなかなか遊ぶ機会がなくなりましたよね。 とてもコツのいる遊びなのですが、そこは子どもたち！飲み込みの早さに私たちのびっくりしました！！
Great job done Sapphires! We will have more fun time again! 今日も楽しかったですね。また次回も楽しみましょうね！ Lucky Kids International Children’s Academy in Kodaira ラッキーキッズ インターナショナル チルドレンズ アカデミー Let’s learn English together! 小平で一緒に英語(英会話）を学ぼう！
For this week, using the directions we learned the previous week (go straight, turn left/right, stop), we took our kids on an imaginary trip to Tokyo Disneyland. We had an enlarged English map of the theme park printed out, and the kids chose where they wanted to go. The kids would then try and verbally give directions from the entrance to their desired destination.
今週は、先週覚えた道案内のフレーズを使い夢の国で一騒動を起こしました（笑） ディズニーランドの英語地図上で、現在地から行きたいアトラクションまでどうやって行くのか英語で説明し、実際に地図上で人形を誘導するというゲームをしましたが、障害物にぶつかってばかりでした。途中から面白がってRun fast! Jump! Flyなどいささか無茶な指示も出てきたものですが、楽しみながらもしっかりと趣旨を理解してくれていました♪
Lucky Kids International Children’s Academy in Kodaira
ラッキーキッズ インターナショナル チルドレンズ アカデミー
Let’s learn English together! 小平で一緒に英語(英会話）を学ぼう！
Today, all the classes learned about animals again!
今日も全てのクラスで動物について学習しました！
In the Little Diamonds Class, the students were so excited to knock on the door of the farm house box and see what kind of animals would come out of the door! What do you know, out came theElephant, Tiger, Pig, and Duck
Little Diamondsクラスでは、ファームハウスの扉からどんな動物が出てくるの、とってもかわくわくしながらドアをノックしました！象やトラ、ブタやアヒルが飛び出しました～！
In the Brilliant Crystals class, the students reviewed the names and cries of animals. They did perfectly on this topic!!
Brilliant Crystalsクラスでも、動物の名前やその鳴き声を再度勉強しました。皆、全部覚えてましたね！！
After we did music and movement, bowling games and rubber band chain making, we reviewed the Food Chain in the natural world. The students completed the Food Chain worksheets with stickers and learned which animals eat which animals or plants.
歌にあわせて体を動かしたり、ボーリングゲームや輪ゴムつなぎをした後、食物連鎖について復習しました。そしてワークシートを完成させながら、どんな動物がどんな植物や動物を食べるのか学びました！
Lucky Kids International Children’s Academy in Kodaira
ラッキーキッズ インターナショナル チルドレンズ アカデミー
Let’s learn English together! 小平で一緒に英語(英会話）を学ぼう！
The animal themed month has started for everybody at Sparkling Sapphires, and they are having so much fun!
We’ve started making animal crafts (rabbits for today) and learning new songs focusing on many different animals. Everybody’s highlight for today was learning “Old Mcdonald had a farm”
Everybody was laughing, clapping and dancing around. It seems everybody is able to enjoy this song, no matter what generation you’re from
In our speech classes, we are currently practicing the classical holiday tune “12 days of Christmas”
We were all admittedly worried that we had perhaps set the bar too high, as the song contains several sophisticated words, but this past week has been a very pleasant surprise, to say the least.
Everybody is doing so well, it feels like we’ve got our own glee club at Lucky Kids! Singing is definitely one of the best ways to learn a language, and now that we’ve found out our kids in speech class do not dislike singing that much, the possibilities just continue to grow Please shower your children with praise, they are doing so, so well.
現在スピーチクラスでは、クリスマス会に向けて12 days of Christmasという伝統的な歌を練習しています。
歴史のある楽曲な分、歌詞も難しく、最初の頃は少し基準を高くしすぎたかもしれないという心配が多少ありましたが、ここ１週間で不安が全て安心、そして期待に変わりました。
Starting from today, the central theme for our classes will be farm animals. When a child cannot recognize an animal by it’s name, the easiest way to explain is to voice the cry of the animal, but we’re teaching them the English versions Bark as opposed to wanwan, meow over nyaa, and cock a doodle doo instead of kokekoko!
We’ll also be practicing songs for our upcoming Christmas show and the kids are practicing hard, so please look forward to it! The pictures below are of them doing arts and crafts – today they made a duck! A new friend started attending our Dazzling Rubies class from today
本日からテーマが「牧場での動物」に変わりました。名前を言ってもどの動物か子どもがわからない時は、やはり鳴き声を聴かせるのが一番ですよね。僕たちは日本のではなく海外で教わる鳴き声を教えています。ワンワンではなくbark bark、ニャーではなくmeow、こっけこっこーではなくcock a doodle dooです（笑）
またクリスマス会に向けての練習も増えてきます、一生懸命練習をしますので乞うご期待下さい♪写真は本日の工作の様子です。アヒルを作りました。また、今日から新しいお友達が増えました！よろしくね（＾－＾）
It is already November!! Time flies! The topic of this month is Animals. All the activities including words, songs and crafts have become something to do with animals. The sounds that animals make are different from the ones in Japanese, so students will learn the different sounds of horses, sheep, pigs and cows. The story books are about animals. The students made sheep craft and colored animal sheets.
早いものでもう11月！11月のトピックはAnimals（動物）です。単語や歌、工作も動物に関する内容に変わりました♪ 英語での動物の鳴き声は日本語とは違うので、馬やヒツジ、ブタや牛など、色々な動物の鳴きまねをしてみたり、動物の本を読んだりしています。工作も動物にちなんだものになり、ヒツジをつくったり動物の塗り絵を楽しみました：-）
Students learn Action Words. It is one of their favorite activities.
動きを表す単語も勉強しています！子ども達の大好きな時間の一つです♪
Lucky Kids International Children’s Academy in Kodaira
ラッキーキッズ インターナショナル チルドレンズ アカデミー
Let’s learn English together! 小平で一緒に英語(英会話）を学ぼう！
We had our first ever Halloween party at Lucky Kids on October 31st. Games were played and songs were learnt, and with a total of 32 kids, describing the event as “lively” would be an understatement!
The best part for the kids by the looks of it was the trick or treating. Our staff made arrangements beforehand and gave the treats to the employees of the nearest gas station, and we all went trick or treating. There’s nothing quite as exciting as taking a late night stroll with candies in one hand, a friend’s hand in the other. Seeing the smiles on their faces made us feel it was more than worth the effort. Thank you all so much for coming, and see you soon!
