人間教育実践報告大会★ 高校教諭

内容を全部覚えていないので、ポイントだけ。 このスピーチをしたのは男性で、たぶん、私くらいの年齢。 私が勤務している高校は、留年が確定した生徒、万引きが発覚し退学寸前、ひきこもりで全く家から出られなくなった、対人恐怖などの心の病をかかえる生徒などが通う学校です。 私は、Sくんとの二人三脚の体験を話します。 Sくんは、高校に入学してから3日で登校拒否になり、それから全く学校にいけなくなった。 最初会ったとき、全くあいさつもできず、なかなかコミュニケーションがとれないので人とあうことが怖いと感じ、僕はていねいな対話のつみかさねが必要だと感じました。そんな風に、毎日少しず一緒に話ながら目標をたてていきました。なにかを自分自身で決めることは、勇気のいることです。 最初は自分で学校にいけず、保護者が車でおくってくれていました。 そこで、自分の力で、学校へいこう！と励まし、なんとか自分でいけるようにはなったものの、体育の授業になると、体育館の入り口まできて一歩も足が出ないのです。 競争系の種目が苦手な彼には体育は辛いものでしかなく、私は体育の専門教師に、選択制でスピードだけを重視しないような種目もとりいれるように提案し、彼も少しずつ参加できるようになりました。 体育に参加できないときは、見学するかわりに何か社会に貢献することをしよう、と彼に提案し、自分で考えてもらいました。すると、プルタブやペットボトルキャップを集めたい！と言ったので毎週体育館の周りを清掃し始めました。それを始めてから、地域の清掃ボランティアの方と話す機会が増え、少しずつ、知らない人とでもコミュニケーションがとれるようになりました。 また、廊下に、箱を設定したところ、ペットボトルキャップがどんどん集まり、それを週ごとに彼が自ら役所に届けることが習慣になりました。それでも、まだ、あいさつがしっかりとできなかったかれに私はきつい口調で、あいさつもできない人間を社会は必要としていないよ。といいました。彼はそれを真剣にきいてくれました。少しずつ努力してくれました。自分が、中心になりなにか行動をおこしたことで、自信がつきました。みんなが受験や就職の準備をしだしたころ、私は彼を連れて高卒採用の広告を見に、何度もハローワークに足を運びました。彼が、試験の勉強をしたいと言ってきたのでそれにむけて勉強し、むかえた就職試験、残念ながら不合格でしたが彼は涙を流し、人生でこんなにがんばってくやしい気持ちは初めて。また挑戦したい、といいました。お母さんは、先生にまかせます。お願いします！とゆだねてくださったので、 徹底的に、なにがよくなかったのか、彼の得意を伸ばすような分野の採用はないかを探しました。彼の勉強をみていると、彼は数字にとても強く人よりも早く計算ができることに気っきました。数学に強い人を積極採用する企業を見つけ問い合わせたらすでに募集は終了し、選考段階でした。だけど、直接企業に出向き、試験を受けさせてくれないか交渉したらokがでました。彼は、すでにきまった人誰よりも良い成績で余裕の結果でした。社長が、驚き例外採用とし、いままであきらめていた資格の取得ができる人材があらわれた、と喜んだそうです。 (っとここで、なんども彼は泣きそうになるので私はすでに号泣です。 以前にそのような生徒をもったことがあります。。。でも私は救えなかった。 ) 卒業、就職まで大変な道のりでした。でも、彼を信じ、地道に対話を重ねてきたことで彼自身が変わっていけました。 っとまたここで半泣き。。 僕は、一生 彼を忘れません！ (会場あちこちで泣きごえ聞こえる。) 私は、これ聞いて あぁ。。私の環境ってめぐまれてるぅ。。。て感じ、 なにがあっても子供を信じて、地道に対話していこう！と、決意しました★

人間教育大会 その1 幼稚園の先生

日曜日、尼崎で、人間教育大会に参加した。 参加する人たちは、教育で子供たちにかかわる、保育園幼稚園小、中、高、学童保育、障がい児教育、などなど。そのなかで、代表の四人が実践教育を発表。ここでは、最初の一人めを紹介します。 私は、 幼稚園教諭をしています。いわゆる、難しい子供、と言われる子が集まる6歳児のクラスを担当することになった。 おちつきがない子、全体的に幼い頃、私語が止まらない子、すぐに手がデル子、など自分の教諭歴など関係なく毎日が大変でした。親の前でもきつい口調になってしまうことが多く、あとから反省してばかりでした。 生活発表会の劇を練習する時になり、なかなかすすまないのです。◯◯が手踏んだ！おした！と、本番はすぐそこなのに、全くすすまないことに、ちゃんとしたいと思ってる子供たちにも申し訳なく、投げ出したい気持ちでした。同僚に相談したところ、◯◯先生、愚痴、文句ばっかりやなあ。めずらしいわ、先生がここまで文句いうなんてよっぽどやなあ。と、気づけば子供の悪口ばかり言っている自分に気づき、自分が先生になったばかりの頃は、クラスの生徒全員の名前をかきだし、お仏壇の前において、毎日朝いえをでる前にクラス全員が一人も残らず幸せに、一緒に成長していきたい、と祈っていけたのに、今は子供のせいにしている。 と思い、一人一人が話し合いに参加できるように円をつくり毎回問題点について話し合い、解決を共にしていこうとがんばってきました。少しずつではあるけど、みんなが発言の場があることで一人一人が心をあわせるということがわかってきたようでした。 練習が一週間前に タイトル 心をひとつに

Japanese Class/ A new friend.

Every Friendays, I have a Japanese class to teach.

My student is an adult lady from China married to a man from Pakistan. That status already interested me enough and got curious what kind of person that is. What is she doing in Kobe? What sort of things is she interested in? Are we going to be good friends? Are we going to be able to share our beliefs and exchange opinions even we have such different "ways" of living?

KICC (Kobe International Community Centre) have a free Japanese lesson for foreigners who live in Kobe city for 6 months. This is a contract and even though it is a volunteer, Japanese teachers who are registered there are taking this very seriously and there are many new Japanese learners at so many different levels. Some are just beginners and will start their Hiragana and easy greetings and others will spend this class time talking about politics or business, or even to go over their graduation thesis, in JAPANESE!! Amazing.

So the first meeting was very nice. She looked very calm and peaceful and she was very relieved that I could use English so when she doesnt understand, I could help her out. We decided how we wanted to do this class, and agreed on "No textbook". She actually had studied her textbook but she had forgotten almost everything so she wanted to keep up with her everyday conversation skills.Well, i thought then it is better to "practice" than "learn" so i asked to

1.Come up with a question for me.

2.Write a short diary of what she has done that day or the week.

3.Review what we studied in class.

Thats all- and i used picture cards and picture dictionaries that KICC has. It is much more useful to use these materials than all "written" sentences with no illustration, it bores me out, and it bores me out so badly that i almost hate to teach.....

So this idea worked very well. and we are using "絵で見る日本語” picture dictionary in Japanese and the last lesson we did the page onはなしあう、　やくそくする。　and there are several senteances like やくそくどおり、のこさずたべる。

As we promised, he finished his plate.

so when we talk that in english it is so different so when we learn the language, it is so importatnt to THINK in that language as well, if we translate everytime, it takes time, and its waste of time.... so she really like my class so far and i love my student so far. We both love cooking. so we never run out of cooking topic. She wanted to know how to cook さといも、so i gave her the idea on 煮付け。　煮付け　is a very common japanese dishes and you can almost 煮付け　everything/ fish, vegis, meat, and she tried it and actually brought the potatos then after a lesson, i was off so she invited me to go to her friend's house with her.

At first i thought it was really nice and a very "foregin" way because a Japanese person would never ask to go with them to a friend's house without asking that friend first for a permisssion but i could tell she and this friend are very close and welcome new friends so of course i said "YES, i would LOVE to" so we walked and walked then went to se a new friend.

it was a family from Pakistan, and i met a lady and her three children. The youngest was just 2 months old and he was soooooooooooo adorable. A three year old girl, she was the most beautiful girl i had every seen in my life. She had such a beautiful eyes and curious look on her face "who is this new person who has been looking at me and smiling so big" i often told her "come here and play with me! do you wanna show me your toys?" and her mom was very happy that i liked kids and i was friendly with her. When i got invited in, i sat at the table and just relax, and the ladies started cooking in the kitchen. I was very comfortable. In Japanese houses, normally when you go in, you are to sit and pick what i wanna drink and just do nothing, but I also went into the kitchen and just had a casual conversation like we were friends from before. I felt so right and comfortable with them somehow even i dont know them and i just met them. It was a Japanese kitchen but it smelled different since there were different kind of spices and they were cooking Chapati, which is bit like Soft Taco shell, and just fell in love with this taste. and i ate and ate. This was the good thing about them too, because they offered me food and told me to eat a lot, and i took their words, and i didnt have to worry that I was eating too much or something like that, like i worry a lot at Japanese friends house.  We talked a lot about education, and also told each other about ourselves, where they shop for gloceries, and all that. She also asked me what do I think of drinking the tap water after the Tsunami because of the radiation stuff, and I told her im not so sure since i have filter and its no problem but i would be extra careful with an infant, i mean its never too much to be careful^^

And after sometime, the three year old girl got used to me and she started to play with me. We played some lego, and i held a two month old baby and really felt "Oh my gosh, how would someone hurt this precious thing, i cannot believe the abusing/ Im holding a human being, and i would do anything, everything to protect him. love him. and care for him"

i could feel that to a friend's baby, and im sure I will be so spoiled to my own. hahaha!! but the three year old big sister, is not big enoigh, she came to me and wanted to cuddle. I felt it was so sweet and i cuddled her and sang to her. "You are the cutest girl ive ever seen, and you are the sweetest ive ever known, your eyes are so beautiful and i fell in love with them. you are the center of the world and only one...." and she was soooooooooo cuddly and i kind of senced that she was jelous, everyone is so cuddly and huggy with the baby but not a "big sister" and it makes her sad sometimes. I am an only child so i had never felt this way but as I have been teaching for years, now I know that the kids feel this way.

So we had a good bonding time, then now she didnt want me to go. I told her "i will come back and play with you more next time. So we became good friends today, right?" and she said "No"

I dont know how much she understood since she speaks her native language at home with her parents- but we actually didnt need words, i could understand kids, and kids understand me.... it was so sweet. She even told that she was coming with me!! haha.

Well after unexpected food and god conversation, we left her house and stopped by at the small foregin food store where you can buy different spices and veges. In front of that store there is a Muslim Musk where my friends visit often. I had never seen that or maybe didnt pay attention before.

So last Friday was such a worthwhile for me, people who have different believes and background cam come together and sit at the same table to eat same food. I know its not that simple- but even for a shor time, it was a Shrink of "world peace". To understand them, by listening to them, look in their eyes when you talk to them, share your ideas without being scared of judgments. they live their life in their own way with respects and they find happiness in that. I get curious to their life and have a peek, ask them questions and enjoy the conversation. When people are ignorant, they go ahead and judge people without knowing the truth, or even without trying to know the truth. Thats wrong. It doesnt mean we have to think the same way. I can respect their lifestyle. I dont have to copy it. I dont have to judge it. Just KNOW that there are this type of lifestyle.

I hope my friendship will last forever and more and more people will be friends no matter what situation. everyone wants to be happy, that is to all religion, all races, all spieces I think.

I learn so much by teaching. and this time, its not only by teaching children. I teach Japanese to an adult, that means I am kind of representing Japan. but i hope she will learn "me" through a "maybe Japanese" glass. Someday I want to invite them to my home. That would be so nice.

 

 

思春期のこども ヤル気をのばす言葉がけのヒント

新聞より★とってもいい記事が載っていたので紹介します★後ほど英語ものせます。

 

「対話は貴重な貴気づきの機会」

普段の生活で使って欲しい言葉

ＯＯしてくれて助かったよ

　　子供は自分でやればできるのだという自信をつける

 

勉強しない子だったら、勉強以外のところをたくさん褒めてあげること♪

 

「ママ、嬉しいよ。（先生　うれしいよ）」

自分の感情を出すのが恥ずかしいのか素直に子供に感情を伝えることが

意外と少ないのです。　いいかわるいかとかの評価じゃなく　親が喜ぶ姿をこどもにいっぱい見せてあげてください。

「あなたはどう思う？」

何かのニュースをきっかけにして意見を聞いてみる

子供の言葉をより多く引き出す会話が大事です。

自分の考えをまとめて人に伝える習慣をつけることが学力向上につながります。

 

 

子供の欠点は無理に直そうとしないで

人間には必ずいいところも悪いところもある。無理にそれをなくそうとするといいｒところまでなくしてしまうこともある。後から考えれば、あのときなんであんなことでいいすぎてしまったのだろう。と思うかもしれない。少々の欠点には目をつぶる。これが1番役にたつかもしれませんよ★

 

 

ＢＹ

教育コーチ　江藤まきさん　　　「子供が勉強好きになる５０の言葉」著者

教育

教育とは 人を励まし続けることだ。 Education is to keep encouraging people.

Naoki Ogi's Speech (English) Part 1

<strong>I went to a speech done by Naoki Ogi. He is an education commentator as well as a professor at several universities.
He appeared on TV and recetnly there isnt a sigle day that we dont see him on TV. However his appearnce didnt start just these days, he was already on TV 10 years ago, said in his speech.</strong>

"I hate it when people say [Try not to make trouble for anyone in your life.] How can you live alone? How can you stay peace without helping troubled people?"

After he said that, I was crying.  I was surprised myself because I really didn' expect myself to cry at his speech. Especially if you know his charactor on TV he is know as ”Gay" charactor (but he is dressed fully as a man and he is married to a woman^^ just the way he talks and the hand gestures are "cute" and thats how he got popular on TV, good for him)

Maybe I cried because sometimes I feel like I'm making trouble for people and just cant help it but i am fortunate to have kind and caring friends, bosses, families and co workers around me that it isnt a big deal. and also, when i teach, there is always someone who disturbs my class. Never listens or sits nicely, plus does everything the oppesite. I recalled that student and felt bad because I always felt in my mind "Don't make trouble for other people!" but really, Dr. Ogi says, "it is okay to have ALL KINDS OF people." and i thought, "wow, this person is a cut above... a lot of educators i have known"

He also introduced an episode on Japan's womens soccer coach who was coaching Sawa, she is also on TV all the time now. He said that Sawa was really bad at Rhythem, no sence of it at all. Being a soccer player, if you dont have a sence of rythem, thats fatel.Then, how did she get that good?

Its the coach. He used the method called Potato Vine Method. Normal coach, teacher, or parent... would point out something bad or could be better or bothing an individual to work harder so it will get better. On the other hand, he always gave compliment on what Sawa did great and continued giving praise, never mentioned what she needed to work on. because this potato vine method is based on an idea "if a person realize what she is good at, then she will want to make more accomplishment. So she will find out what she needs to work on and that also improves itself."

I was shocked!!!! for all this time i have been mentioning to everyone in my class "You need to work on your reading but your writing is excellent." or something like that but i guess I really didnt need to say the first part.

                                                     TO BE CONTINIED

尾木直樹 の愛とロマンの子育て論 in 神戸★

尾木ママこと尾木直樹さんの講演にいってきたので
簡単にまとめてみた★　日本語です★

「人に迷惑をかけるな」っていう言葉が一番嫌いだ。と彼は言った。
人に迷惑をかけずに生きることなんてできない。
支えあって生きる、これがイイ。
私が涙したのはこの言葉だった。
なぜなら、自分が教えている色々な子どもたちの中に
「クラスの調和を乱す子」がいれば
それは「学ぼうとしているほかの子に迷惑がかかる」って思ってたから。
素晴らしいリーダー、先生ならクラス全体でどうすればみんながHappyに過ごせるかを考えられる、らしいのだ。
尾木先生は、なでしこJAPANのさわ選手のリズム感のなさをいきなり話し出した。サッカー選手にとってリズム感がないことは致命的。でも彼女がなぜトップの素晴らしい選手になったか。それは素晴らしいコーチのおかげ。
彼のやり方は。

その、さわ選手のコーチは
弱点を指摘する代わりに
いいところを、伸ばす　　　教育を徹底していたらしい。

こういうのを　いもづる式　というらしいです。
悪いところを指摘しないままいいところを伸ばすと、自然と悪いところも
伸びてくるというやり方。
ある試合の日選手2人が遅れてきて、コーチはその2人以外の選手に
「なぜ2人がいないことがわかっているのに平気で集まるんだ。チームだろう。みんなで集合して初めてチームだ。見捨ているのと一緒だ。」
と注意したらしい！


「わかってるけどできない」　先生、親、コーチが多いんじゃないかなぁ。
彼がemphasizeしてたのは　なんと生後直後に戻り
「カンガルーケア」　だった。
お母さんが赤ちゃんを産んだ後すぐにお腹（胸）の上に赤ちゃんを乗せて
心臓の音をきかせてしばらくぼーっとする、あれ。
外に出てきた瞬間、赤ちゃんは怖くって怖くって「ここはどこ？こわい！襲われる！」みたいな不安を感じるらしいの。
だから、お腹の中で聴いてたお母さんの心音を聞くことで
「安心してもいいんだ。」　って思えるんだって。
そこから、2歳になっても10歳になっても16歳になっても
その時の事を忘れないで「このコを守る。このコを愛する。認めてあげる」って思い出してお母さんは接しましょう。って言うんだ。
それがあると子供と親との「基本的信頼」が形成される。
世の中にTrustできる人がいる、という安心感で自分の自信とかにつながっていく。

最後に、学力について。

今の若い世代は　メールだと気持ちを伝えるのがとって上手。
だけど実際にあって話してみたりすると全然話が通じなかったりするらしい。
これからのグローバスの時代で生きていくには
自分の意見をもってそれを相手に伝えていく能力を養わなければいけない。
それは自分勝手に人の意見を無視するのとは違う。
本当に学力が高いとは、「全国一斉小学生テスト」の結果でもなく「高校生クイズ」で「宇宙のなんちゃらかんちゃらの距離」を30秒で計算しだす秀才高校生とも違う、と彼は言った。

それは、「洞察力」　のことをさす　と。
周りを見て、周りと話して
コミュニケーションをとりながら頭を使える人。

I totally agree!

勉強を頑張るのは　洞察力　をきたえる訓練なんだなと
改めてわかった気がする。

バラエティー番組では伝えにくいこと編集もうそもあるんだろうけど
彼を知るきっかけになったバラエティー番組には感謝。

Eye opening experienceって英語では言うけど
本当にそんなかんじ。
ぱって目が覚めて、　wow
って感じた瞬間が何度もの公演中にあって

「いろんな種類の人間がいてこそいいんです」　の言葉、感動しました！

インターナショナルな環境で教えてると　それをわかってるはずなのに
みかけや行動の違いをみとめてはいても
なかなか「できないこと」にはイライラしてしまうこともある。
それはまだまだ私の力不足だとはっきりわかった。

また講演があったら是非行きたい！

Awaji island- part two

I meant to update my second day of islaand of summercamp sooner, but adter the test I got busy with work, then soon we had our school  Day trip and so on, and i just got tiedup...

so anyways, to write up the overview of summercamp to awaji... i thought of coming up with "ranking" so here it is...

"TOP 5 Awaji Summercamp surprises"

1."getting lost" in a dark! It was part of our plan to go and find "umi hotaru" which are lighting bugs? those are the bugs glow in dark, and they like fish sausages so we had this jar with the fish sausage tied with string- and supposely hoping to see many bugs glow in dark.... until we realized most of our flashlights died and didnt really see clearly so we totally got lost then since we (teachers) live in cities we didnt notice the counryside get no lights and it is pretty easy to get loooooooost! well, we did get some... but it was a little sad to see kids sad faces... but the teacher was even more upset, and sweaty, and.... exausted! haha

2. Amazing! 5 yr old boy, used to be "little baba"a year ago, didnt cry, wedge, wine, or ask us to pick him up or huggy during the whole camp. He is the little one in our group and normally gets away with his "cute" way and cuddle... but at the camp we are all busy, and focusing on getting to places on time and figuring out what to do next, then believe ornot he got so independent, at eating time, sleeping, carring bags, he was one independent little man and i was so surprised and proud! when kids got no choice but to take care of themselves, they do!

3.Morning and Evening Meetings at the Youth Cultural center where we stayed, we had to choose one child from our group to come up to the front and talk in public about our day and greeting, we absolutely had no idea so we as teachers felt a little too bad not to be able to mention it-noone wanted to go to the front but then we had one brave 5th grade boy volunteer and did a great speech just like a grown up businessman in a presentation!

4.In the "Youth cultural center" there were so many rules, it was the part of "learning" as a group and teamwork- yet one that annoyed me the most was that in the morning before leaving the building, few had to go back to the floor that we were staying in and just be there while the "checkers" check all of the lists such as "there is no dust or garbage on the floor" or "windows are all shut" then if there is anything that needs to be redone, they had to, of course... yeah, i did check, double check everyone's room- but still, they had to redo it!

 

5.Nice "indigo dying" t shirt project!  i really wish i brout a t shirt with me because all of he kids t shirt turned out so nice!

i have many more, but i will stop right here!!

anyways i think you all got the idea, this camp was a good one and i enjoyed it very much!

 

Awaji island summercamp 淡路島サマーキャンプ

awaji island 淡路島 youth cultural exchange house 青少年交流の家 

when everyone arrived at ici(our school),we gathered all the

kids and did a morning greeting. We had 18children aged 5 to 11 plus a 15 year old volunteer, who did a great job helping us all. I was assigned 3boys and two girls as my group so we decided to make a "call" which is just a simple attendance taking- 1,2,3,4,5,and 6(that's me )"  WE ARE HERE!!!"  even though for many kids ut was the first time to attend any type of camp in addition "English" camp, they did really well !!!! for example in my group, there were only two that understand or speak english without mixing Japanese, but the other three TRIED really hard to speak some phrases or repeat what the teachers said." which wAs great to see.

when wd got on the bus each student and teacher introduced themselves. 

i had one a few goal for this camp.  

one was to remember

everyone's names and their dream.( our camp was called

dream exchange camp and we did a presentation @ night) 

second, to talk to every child and give them positive

comments. 

third, have fun but be serious because this is work but enjoy

as much as i can. 

when we got the awaji island we checked in

and saw what our rooms look like,then we headed to the craft room which was locked even though we checked with the office and they said it was okay to use the room . .  well , but kids know how to kill the time outside very well some did bug hunting while others played "だるまさんがころんだ"daruma sanga koro n da  it's a popular outside game which is just like the "whats the time Mr.wolf ?"

then a cleaning lady came smiling and said I'm here now!!I'm here now!!  kids were like "finally!!!" 

what we did in there was to make up our own indigo dying design on a white t-shirt. I really wished I brought a white t shirt since this was a real cool craft and the kids t shirts turned out so nice,every one of the shirts were great piece of art!!!!!

we put those t shirts aside then we went to lunch. buffet style  lunch , of course kids got so excited to get their own tray,plates, and food. yes all u can eat. 

I thought it was really good that everyone had to separate the trash(plastic or garbage like leftoverfood) then used chopsticks, put their tray away. I didn't help the kids but watched them over from distAnce feeling nice to see some of them grown up since the first tme I met them. that's the pleasure of teaching litte kids !!!!!

we headed to the beach and did some shell collecting and plAying with sands a bit -thNks to nicebear IKUMA , our photographer he took great pictures at the beach too kids were so excited even though we told them we weren't going in the wAter (it was pretty chilly and waves were high) but of  course they enjoyed getting their feet wet and splash eAch other.after a water gun fighting with laughs and tears (we Lywas huv someone crying because of this and that when we have competitions)

it kind of sucked that the bath time was the end of the day not before dinner,since we were covered with sweats sands and dontknow what.

to be continued . zzz.... 

Hiragana Class ひらがなクラス

私はプリスクールで日本語のクラス（30分）を教えている。

基本的に、ひらがなの読み書きから始まり、かるたやひらがなサイコロで読みの練習などをして★

そのほかは、絵本や遊び歌でボキャブラリーを増やしていく♪

最初はSLOWに始まったこのクラス今はなかなか楽しくって　子どもたちも上達が見られてきてる♪

最近のブームはやっぱりひらがなかるた、あひるのあ！いすのい！といいながらとっていくとっても楽しいゲーム♪

傑作だったのがOちゃんがきつねのき！　のときに　きつねのこ！と言ったこと。

きつねの子！？　笑

 

Im teaching Japanese Hiragana class (30min) every Monday at a preschool Im working, it started really slow in April but now its getting more and more fun, and we love theKarutra game where we have to shout out "Ahiru no A!" or

"kaeru no ka!" and so on.  O chan, he once said "kitsune no ko!" instaed of "kitsune no KI!" because you are supposed to say the first letter of the hiragana but he said it like "baby fox" きつねのこ。　こ＝子　　hahahah

sosooooooo cute!!!

I love teaching japanese to little kids as well as English. Its really fun but it is definitly different from teaching my second language, sometimes its really hard but with kids its always fun!

the song is pretty nice too, i introduced "yaoya san" which means vegitable shop, and "hajimaruyo" means "lets start" both songs can teach us numbers, animals and vegitables!!! its very educational but fun !!