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）

Steak dinner :)

STEAK aussi beef yum yum

Japanese soy taste... i made a special sauce for steak :)
It was really good!!!!







salad!! i used cabbage, cucamber, carrots,

Tuna and cucamber ツナきゅーり

おうどんシリーズです。
パセリがポイント！

its cold udon noodles!!!
the sauce is a new "reishabu" dressing i bought from a store, it goes very well with cold noodles!
canned tuna already has oil so you don thave to put too much sauce, it has its own flavor-!! if you add lemon im sure it wll be great!!!!

めちゃおいしいよー

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!!!!

「完璧」なバイリンガルを求めすぎる日本 スペースアルク

日本でバイリンガル（マルチリンガル）教育を実践しようとすると、まるで「完璧なバイリンガル」あるいは「完璧な日本語を身につけた上でのバイリンガル」を目指すのでなければ意味がないかのような物言いをする人に、しばしば出会います。
　「完璧なバイリンガル」って、何でしょう？　そもそも日本で教育を受けた日本人の中に、「完璧な日本語」を駆使できる人が、どのくらいいるのでしょうか。

夫と私は、娘たちが「完璧なバイリンガル（マルチリンガル）」になるような教育を欲しているわけではありません。
　「世界中のどこへ行っても、その日から学年相応のクラスで授業を受けられ、コミュニケーションが取れる」程度を目標に、これまでやってきました。言語はあくまでもツールであって、目的ではないからです。

　一方で、日本の学校教育が、「完璧さ」を追い求めるあまり英語が手つかずになり、グローバルスタンダードの流れからどんどん乖離していくことのほうをむしろ懸念しております。大人の感覚だと悠長に構えていられる年月も、短期間でめざましい進歩を遂げる子どもにとっては、取り戻しのきかない貴重な一瞬です。既存のパラダイムを打ち破って迅速かつ大胆に改革する勇気も、時に大切なのではないでしょうか。

　最後に、留学をお考えの方にお尋ねいたします。あなたとお子様にとって、言語習得は、ゴールですか？　それともスタートですか？

　お答えによって、好適な留学の形態やタイミング（開始年齢）が変わってくるということを、あなたはもうおわかりですね。

Ｓｐａｃｅ　ＡＬＣ　キッズ英語より　
若草まやの国際子育て



これを読んで、確かに日本は教育に関して形式的なところにこだわりたい完璧主義な部分が強いのかもしれないと思いました。　コミュニケーションは、伝えたい気持ち！！
相手にきちんと伝わった時点でＯＫですから「気持ち」に完璧なんてなくて大丈夫。
考えているうちに時計の針は進んでいる、まずは学んでみる、実践してみる、ことが大切です★

summer dinner

Clam
アサリの酒蒸し


saefood don　（rice)
海鮮丼

My kitchen table cloth

i found this table cloth the other day at a shop that sells a lot of cool stuff form hawaii :)
and i fell in love with this one!!

isnt it nice???

And on the shelf is my collection of TEA and COFFEE from

ALL OVER THE WORLD