Hello from Starry! Continuing my blog from January 14th, today I'd like to introduce the rest of the Grade 8 students at our school who come during the week. We also have one class of Grade 9 students who have lessons from Tuesday through Friday; they attend every Wednesday. So I'll talk about them now, too. Just as a reminder: last time, I told you about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the Tuesday and Wednesday second year junior high school students are working on for their March presentation. And next time, I'll introduce all the Grade 8 and Grade 9 students that DON'T have classes on weekdays. They come on Saturday instead, and are usually taught by Dennis rather than me.
First up, here are Megumi, Karin, and Chihiro. They've been attending the 3rd year junior high class on Wednesday evenings. They have chosen the #14 SDG topic: "Life on Land". Earlier this week, they started doing research about problems (such as extinction, or 絶滅) faced by animals and other forms of life.
Now onto the Grade 8 students! This photo shows the Thursday group of Mahiro, Hayato, and Hiroto. Their SDG topic is #13: "Climate Action". They have begun to research problems like global warming (地球温暖化). As you can see from their poses, they want to fight hard to help save Earth! (By the way, last week I made a mistake in my blog when I called SDG #13 "Life Below Water"; that topic is SDG #14 instead.)
The photo above shows the other Thursday Grade 8 group of Tohka, Yukino, Towa, and Kotoka. They also have selected SDG #13 "Climate Action". Some SDG topics are so important, more than one group of students have decided to do a presentation about the problems our planet faces.
And here are the Friday second year students, beginning with Yoho and Hidaka. They are working together on SDG #7: "Affordable and Clean Energy". Humans always need a lot of energy souces, and some of the ones we are using now will probably not be available in the future.
The final group I'm introducing is Kanae, Karin, and Urara. These Grade 8 students have also chosen SDG #13: "Climate Action". I am very excited to hear all of the student presentations this year, because I am sure that young people have some really good ideas about what we can do to make the world a better place!! Let's hope everyone can work together well, and learn from each other.
- Peter 
