Japanese language supplementary school (日本語補習校)

Hi, what's up mate?

I got a new experience at supplementary school for Japanese last weekend. It was so nice and fun for me to be there the whole time.
You know what the supplementary schools mean?? As the word of 'supplementary', this is a school for Japanese kids who like try to master proper Japanese like same as kids who living in Japan.
Naturally, the kids who have grown up outside Japan don't have much oppotunities to use Japanese as they go to a local school.
The situation they can usually use the language is in their home or only when they chat their Japanese friends who met here. (however, they speak in English each other even in this situation cuz it's way easier for them to understand each other than in Japanese)

That's the reason the school has existed. Some students go to the supplementary school after their local school and some others go there on Saturday. Thay can choose what day to go depending on their request.
In my soccer school, some kids go to the school a couple days a week.

This time, the reason I went there was to give out the existence of my soccer school to them and recruit some new players.
When I started it up, I was looking for a school like that which is many Japanese students enrolled for recruitment. And I contacted them as soon as I found it and I got an appointment to join a class as a volunteer in stead of the promotion for my school, but I couldn't make it for a whole since I had a game every weekend.
I finally made it last weekend before went to game and I joined one class and took some lessons with kids such as Japanese and arthmetic. That brought me back some memories...

What a fond memory... haha

In the class, there were also some naughty kids who is difficult to deal with for his teacher. I felt like his teacher couldn't control those naughty kids and the class had been sometime messed up by them!! haha
Should I have stopped them at that time?? .... It's ok, maybe.

It was a enjoyable time for me and hopefully some students will get intersted in the soccer school!!





こんばんわ。

　先週末、サッカースクールの広報活動をオークランドにある日本語補習校に、ボランティア活動という形でお邪魔させていただきました。
　この「日本語補習校」とは、親の仕事関係などで海外で生活している日本人の子ども達がしっかりとした日本語を習得できるようにということを目的とした学校です。

　普段は、子ども達は現地の学校に通い、学校での会話はもちろん英語で、日本語と触れるのは実際それぞれの親との会話、もしくは同じ日本人の友達との会話（英語で会話してる方が多い）に限られてきます。
　そこでこの補習校が存在し、通常の学校の時間とは別に、平日の放課後に通っている子どももいれば、土曜日のクラスに出席している子ども達もいて、現在１６０人ほどの子ども達がこの学校に在籍しているとのこと。
　もちろんみながみな通っているわけではないけど（特に日本人とこっちのハーフの子は少ないのかも）、うちのサッカースクールでも通ってる子達は多いですね。

　そしてこの学校の存在をネットで見つけて、サッカースクール立ち上げの時に「一度お邪魔させてください」とお願いしたところ、ボランティアという形で手伝う代わりに、宣伝活動をしてもいいですよという形になりました。

　試合が重なり、なかなかお邪魔できなかったのですが先週ようやく伺う事が出来、午前中の３時間だけ一緒に７才のクラスの授業を受けてきました。
　授業も至って日本の小学校のような感じで、国語のひらがなや、算数のおはじきを使った簡単な足し算など、どれも懐かしすぎる内容でしたね。
　うちのサッカースクールにもいますが、やはりここにもやんちゃ坊主が何人かいて、見事に先生を困らせていましたね。笑

　一応自分も中・高の教員免許は持ってますが、小学生の生意気さは扱いが難しそうやったなぁ・・・。笑

　休み時間は一緒にサッカーしたり、目的の宣伝もチラシを配らせていただいたので効果があればと期待しています。
　小学校の教育現場をナマで見れて、色々勉強になりました。