Studying

I believe learning doesnt have an end.
you must study all the time in order to keep your memory, and gain knowledge!!
not only that, when you keep studying on daily basis- studying actually gets easier, and just becomes a routine!!

studying languages is also really important once you learned the language, it is sooooooo easy to forget it if you dont use it.
so the number of hours you are in that enviroment (reading, wrting or communicating) will effect the skills- even if you dont use it daily, if you keep practicing, new knowldge can be dtored in ur brain fast :))))

recently, to train my brain-... i started following this site

http://www.esl-lab.com/adsense/adsenserd1.htm


this is free, you can hear the sample of short stories (like 3- 5 min) about on different categories and answer some questions to make sure you got the idea.
its quick and easy- the whole things is like 10min. long including checking the ansers- imagine how cool it would be to do a brain excercise just 10 min. a day and it helps you to remember better ??


im a blood type B, which is known as "easy to get bored on one thing" but i will try my best to stick with this idea for a while.
when i finish all the tasks, hopefully i get to go to the "upper" level!!

All you need is love? 愛がすべて☆ （日本語）

小さい頃から「1番」をとったことがなくても
お母さんやお父さんやおばあちゃんやおじいちゃんからは

あなたがいちばん

と言われ続け　育った。

振り返ったら、もちろん本当に色々なことがあったけど
小さい頃にどういう言葉をかけられて、どういう態度で育ったか

それって結構あとあとの人生に反映している気がする。

自分が苦手なことがあっても
その苦手を指摘される前に
得意だった歌や踊りや　人に優しくしてあげる態度などを
ほめられた。

「やさしいところはお父さんに似ていて、歌がうまいのはお母さんに似てるんだねぇ」

とか言われると
なんだかうれしかった。

小学校1年生から通った空手教室でも
体も小さく　あまり意味もわからない私に

DAZUはよくがんばってるな。えらい。えらいな。

もう今はなくなってしまった師匠はいつも言ってくれた。
私が　
がんばってない日でも

おこらずに


えらいな、よくきたな。

といってくれる。

怒ったらすごく怖い。

その先生の言葉には一つ一つの言葉に計り知れないほどの弟子への愛情がこめられてた。

今　考えたら
私は　ほめられて　いろんなことにやる気をだしていったんだ、と思う

試合の前の日は緊張した。
師匠は

健闘を祈ります

といつも言う

小学校低学年の時は
試合なんて意味わからないけど
とにかく出ることでみんながほめてくれるから！っていうくらいの気分でいってた。


まけたときもかったときも
それなりの達成感はあって

よくがんばった。

っていわれるのがうれしかった。

その代わり　空手着をぐちゃぐちゃにしまったり　ありがとうございました　がちゃんといえなかったら　なかされるくらい怒られる。

ほめられることで自信がつき、もっと練習したい　うまくなりたいっと
思うようになったし、たまに先生が上手な子を前にもってきておおげさにほめたりする。「このこの動きをみとけ。こういうふうにできたらいいんだ」って言ったら
「私もああやってできるようになりたい」って思ったり


すごい愛情をもらってたんだと思う。

甘やかすことなく、愛情を注ぐ

教える側だと、難しい！

だけど、私　真剣にこの世の中にある犯罪とか自殺の悲しいニュース、その本人たちがもう少し愛情をそそがれて、それを認識することで確実に減るんじゃないかなって思う

HOME ENGLiSH :) おうちえいご sept.9th

They did their homework!!!!!!!!!! great job kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


we learned "colors" today- and the magic word

Please


I believe "please" and "thank you"
is really important for not only kids, but for anyone to know, and use!!
i guess my older student Y, (8, girl) feels funny when she says "thank you" in english, but she feels right when she says "ありがとう”　arigato (thank you in jp) i told her, it really makes me feel happy, if you said thank you to me in enlish, because its an english class, and she understood.

I have a Piano, two Guitars, an ukulele, a Shamisen (noone knows how to play) so when the kids come here, they always wanna play those.
but since i need to teach them the least manners and diciplines as far as playing an instruments ( like putting them back in a place, or dont mess with the tuning, or dont treat instruments like they are toys... and so on)
i had the kids sit in front of me, and we had a little "meeting" and discused that. I told them, they can play the instruments whenever they want to if they asked me ... please! so they said "guitar please" or "piano please" and started playing.

As far as the color games, they did well- but hey werent as intrested as the first time!! so i should come up with more fun game for them next time, but today they heard a lot of colors in english, and they did repetitions very well!!

out main event in our class today was

COOKING

so i explained what we will do, (almost all in japanese, then some in english since they were getting frustrated with me speaking english the whole time ;;)

They measured the "hotcake mix", cracked an egg, so and so, they were so interested!!


be careful, dont spill!!



Its always good to taste!!



ah!! you got me!!






its... abit burnt, but oh well! haha tasted so good!!




尼崎、キッズ英会話、スクール

HOME ENGLiSH :) おうちえいご sept.1st

On Septmber 1st

I opend my after school english class :)
4:00-5:30 (including snack)


letter recognition- "listen" to the sound of an alphabet and complete the puzzle!!
It is her first time to learn ABCs on that day, she did so good!!!

7 years old, Yaya



6 year old, Taz
he loves numbers!!! He is matching the numbers and colors!!
later on we played "card janken" which is when we put out a card form your hand, and the person with the biggest number wins, and whoever has the most card will be the winner-!! (but since little brother is fat better at this game than sister, Yaya told me " i dont wanna do this anymore, its boring!" and got mad. haha, so i cleaned everything up. and let a brother do some number game on the computer, and let yaya play the piano. i taught her the chord C today :)




Materials for the day!!
we played with baloons also, and they enjoyed writing theletters on their "own" board :)
Homework folder is for them to file worksheets done in class and letters to parents, and some worksheet to take home :)

自宅英会話、キッズ英会話、子ども英会話、英語教室、イングリッシュ、フラッシュカード

should we talk to kids about it?

The book "yoko"

日本からアメリカに引っ越してきた主人公のヨーコは、ある朝、大好きなお寿司のお弁当をお母さんに作ってもらいました。The main charactor is called YOKO from Japan, her mom fixed "sushi " for fher lunch one day. she was so happy and excited to bring it to school/それを持って大喜びで学校に行った彼女。しかしランチの時間に同級生の友達から、変な食べ物をランチに持ってきたと言われてしまいます。but at lunch time all her class,ates laughed at her for bringing something stranger. Her teacher told her nicely that everyone would forget about it by the time they have snack.そんな彼女を先生は、おやつの時間になればみんなもう忘れてしまうでしょう、と慰めます。ところがおやつの時間に彼女が机の上に出したのは「小豆アイス」。これを見て、クラスメートはまたまた彼女を変なヤツだと馬鹿にしました。bu they they made fun of her even more when yoko took out her "red bean ice cream" for snack.先生もヨーコの悲しそうな表情に心を痛め、食生活の違いを理解するために、何かいい方法がないかと考えます。Seeing yoko's sad face the teacher suggests that they will have an international food festival at school. ever since the festival was held, everyone got interested in her food, and she couldenjoyed swpping food with friends :)そしてクラスで「インターナショナル・フード・フェスティバル」を開催することに。お話はその後、ヨーコにも日本食に興味のある友人ができ、それから毎日そのクラスメートとお弁当を交換する……というエンディングを迎えます。


such a nice story!!!! Im definitly gonna make my kids weired food everyday! i want my kdids to enjoy thai curry, fejada (brazilian food) panckaes, i mean its more fun,,,, right?? i do hpe that people will respect the differenes , its totally cool, to be different!!

Your dream house!

another activity today given by DeRoMaN was

"design your dream house!"

It was so interesting!!!!!!
First we talked about houses, apartments, boat house, etc...
and asked the kids "what kind of house DO you live in?"
kids were so cute, they were asking each other which floor of the tall apartment they live, and it was great that we could imcorporate(?) the
"high" and "low" from the previous lesson!!!!

then we discussed what kind house would be NICE to live in, and we started to design our DREAM house!!

some of them designed...
☆　a cat house -eyes are windows and mouth is a door!
☆　a maze house- there are lots of tricks and difficulties the people have to pass to get to each room
☆ a cool boat house on the water
☆　a house of 4 seasons, and on the roof there are symbols for each seasons which are snow, cherry blossoms, fallen leaves and ocean water! (so creative)
☆　a house which has a loooong slide- so you dont have to walk!


it was great, the kids imagination always surprises me.
i think some of the designs they did today... they might come true in the future-!
especially the loooong slide one, its WOULD be pretty useful actually.

Math activity [ high and low]

今日は、レッスンでmath の high and low をやった☆

まず、最初に H とL をボードに書いて、H for high and L for low を教えてから、
みんなで体を動かして、go higher, higher, higher, go lower, lower, lower で
アクション☆　その後、数字をあてるゲームをした

My lesson for the day was a "math" acitivity, we learned high and low through actions, numbers, and worksheets!!!!

the kids did an excellent job on every activity, since its been more than a week and they are getting used to the lesson. sometimes i was a bit sad i felt maybe i was too bring to the kids even when i gave some activity, they wanted to play play and play, (which i know it is totally normal for the children) but since i really love teaching, when the teaching doesnt go well i feel very sad or not good enough.....
but today was so good, i loooooooooove you, kids! hehehehe


数字　　low high ゲーム

ボードに誰か一人が数字を書く。
もう一人は、その数字をあてようとする、もしその数字がボードの数字よりも小さければ
お友達がヘルプで　lower, lower と教えてあげ、反対は　higher となる。
もし　４　といって　lower,１　といって higher
なら答えは　２か３、それで答えていくというかんじ。

数字を最初は１－１０、そして１－３０、１－５０と大きくし、最後は１０－３５０など少し難しくした。

guessing the number game was really fun, even there are different english levels in the classroom, numbers are very farmilier to everyone! so it was great!!
even the 5 year old participated, and he had fun!!! so nice!

after that we did a worksheets and they compared two numbers
1 4
10 7
5 5

if its the same, you will write equal,
if its lower, you will write <
if its higher, you will write ＞


everyone did GREAT!!!!!!

casework ケースワーク

Casework is one method for solving a problem regarding to children with abuse, parents divorce, and so on. the problem might not dissapear 100%, but the purpose of it is to support the self help of a client.



Here are the process of casework

intervention...actual conduct of support


Intake... first contact with a client.
* can a client and worker build a le pole (trust)?

Accessment...Finding out what the problems are, and what needs to be done.
* kids may be nervous to tell the truth, or what they tell the worker might be different from what is actually happening.

planning...decide the supporting method after finding out what the problems are.




direct/indirect intervention



monitoring/ evaluation... checking to see if the supporting process is working toward a goal. if not, reacess and replan for another support.


finish... the best form to end it is to solve a child's problem with a reflection of his hope.

児童の権利に関する条約

1989年　11月20日に採択された、国際条約
ポイント
☆18歳未満の子ども
☆全世界で適応
☆児童の最善の利益(child's best interests)が尊重される
☆児童に対して差別は禁止！（人種　宗教　心身障害）

KISS Kids In Summer Skip 楽しかったよ☆

A day trip to the library!! it was soooooooooo hot today, and as i told everyone- they were all ready with their caps on!!
first we made hot dog lunch (with chicken nuggets and french fries) then we walked all the way to kuise station :)
Kids were so cute figuring out how to buy the train ticket^^
Everything was under controll, the time management especially !!!!!
Great thanks to teacher Mai who helped me today!!!


Kids writing a book title in English!! First time for them to write! Great job!!



we are so hot, we couldnt resist!!!!!!!!!







In front of amagasaki station, there were some booths and we had a chance to try different things for free!!!! as soon as kids soon a bunch of wood sticks, they all ran to them and were so curious!!!!!!







We made our hotdog!!!! GREAT JOB KIDS!!!!