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2024.05.17
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Homework makes the dream work!

This week has been very busy, with organizing all the orders for the bookfair!
Many students are excited to be working on their new books and I am hopeful that they will
manage to complete them with little to no problems! It can be hard to do all the extra work and
I am proud of how dedicated everyone has been to completing their weekly homework! Keep it up guys!

Some students however are a bit wary of doing more self-study books as it means more homework.
As a teacher it is hard not to feel bad for assigning more homework to the students,
but at the end of the day it helps them re-enforce what they have been learning in
class and helps build up the necessary skills to tackle English with confidence!

Let's hope we can keep them motivated to go through their study material without feeling discouraged!

- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
2024.05.16
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A Brand new Library

Many of our students will have seen it in our lobby, but I`m very excited to tell everyone.

Our Amity school now has a wonderful new library of story books to read before and after classes,
We have many picture books for students of all levels, they can read about music, animals, and many rhyming games and puzzles!

Each one of these books has been highly recommended by many teachers, So I made sure that each of them is ready to delight and teach everyone new things!

-Jordan Sensei
2024.05.13
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Switch it up.

Bookfair has begun and it's time to switch things up with our new textbooks!
I want to do something different for students to motivate them to complete their self-study material.
I have found a lot of students don't really finish their books or lack the will to do so. My idea is to
make a game/competition where they can win small prizes every month for completeing a certain number of pages.

Maybe if the books didn't feel like a chore, they might be more inclined to keep going!
Switching it up every now and then might give them the boost they need, especially if they are getting new material for this year!
I am crossing fingers, hoping my idea works!

- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
2024.05.12
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Warming up in Warming Weather

As the weather warms up and the new school year swings into full force, I want to share about one of my youngest students who is working incredibly hard.

Little R takes a kindergarten class with Mom and I.
Everything is still very new for him, and he still feels overwhelmed or frightened in our lessons, but Mom comforts him and reminds him its okay.

At first R didn`t want to do anything, he would cling to Mom and only stare at me, and if it was too much he`d get upset, But Lately R seems to have gotten a little used to lessons.
This week, R was able to not only repeat the vocabulary on his own, but Recall and use vocabulary from other lessons, linking colors, numbers and fruits all together!
Towards the end of the lesson R even got up and walked away from mom to play a bowling game with me!
I hope I can help him to settle in and really enjoy his lessons with us.

-Jordan Sensei
2024.05.10
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Staycation.

The first week back at school has been very busy and interesting so far!
I was quite surprised that a lot of my students didn't have any plans for Golden Week.
Many had club activities that kept them busy the entire week! School really is hectic!
Some visited their grandparents while the rest stayed home and relaxed.

They seemed very happy and had fun playing video games, watching youtube or sleeping!
We often make a fuss about having plans and going to new places but
staying home and having a peaceful relaxing holiday is sometimes better.
A simple stay at home vacation or "Staycation" can do you more for you than having plans.

- Khanya (Kay) Sensei
2024.05.09
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The Perfect Vacations!

We are finally back from our Golden Week Vacations and I have been hearing so much from students about the exciting ways they spent their Vacation.

From some, I heard stories of travelling all over Japan and a few even visited other countries!
From Others, I got to hear about staying home, relaxing, and catching up on sleep!
Both sound pretty good to me.

One Student in my Tuesday class, R, told me, not about her vacation, but the first thing she did back at school instead, She really loves studying and couldn`t wait to get back to it!


-Jordan Sensei
2024.05.08
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年長さん、歌を一生懸命歌っています!

みなさんこんにちは!
今日は幼児クラスのお話をいたします。

年長さんのNちゃんとMくん。
新しい教科書になり、歌もたくさん変わりました。
今は"Hokey Pokey"という歌を歌っています。
この歌は、"Right/Left"と"Body parts"がたくさん出てくるため、まずは右と左の練習を、そのあとに体の部位の練習をします。
二人とも先生の動作を真似しながらリピートしたり、歌いながら動作したりと頑張っています!

まだまだたくさんBody partsが出てくるので、一緒に身体を動か字ながら覚えていきましょう!

福田
2024.05.06
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And we're back!

Welcome Back!
Amity will be opening for regualr classes tomorrow!

I'm sure the students are eager to get back to their lessons and learning English!
It has been a wonderful and fun week off and I am so excited to hear about how
students spent their week! It should make for some interesting conversations!

This holiday has been really interesting! Seeing and experiencing new things around Japan!
I hope the students were able to enjoy their Golden Week and I look forward to hearing all about it!
This week, I will be doing "Share Time" in all my lessons, so students have the opportunity to share and listen to
stories about Golden Week! I also want their take on some of the traditions of the holidays during that time!

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

- Khanya (Kay) Sensei

2024.05.05
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What Should I do?

Not long ago we faced a scary earthquake that had many of my students talking.
Thankfully everyone was safe and sound, But I used the chance to talk to some of my students about what to do when scary things happen.

Everyone had many ideas about what the best thing to do was,
One of my highschool students, R, was even able to give detailed instructions on what to do In many kinds of emergency and explain why.
I had never thought about many of the things she said, but I feel so much safer knowing how clever and prepared everyone is!

It`s very important to talk about these things, so I`m very glad.

-Jordan Sensei
2024.05.04
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プライベートでいろんな人の話を!

みなさんこんにちは!
今日は小学校高学年のプライベートクラスでのお話をいたします。

小5のHくん。
現在はプライベートレッスンで英検に向けた読み強化を行っております。
前のレッスンは、職業のお話だったため、あるアニメキャラクターの話をしながら彼らの職業を言っていく練習をしました!
また、家族のことも聞いてみたうえで、それを英語に直し、発話練習もしています!
自分の家族紹介ができるって、とても楽しいですよね!

今度は親戚にも話を広げていって、いろんな職業を知っていきましょう!

福田