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What's in the Witch's Kitchen?
Having a lot of Halloween fun with the excellent What's in the Witch's Kitchen? book by Nick Sharrat
This year I've had a lot of success using it in the elementary classes, as we've recently been studying house vocabulary; so the book has come in handy to recycle some of the language we've learned.
I've also got to teach them some new words such as 'nasty goblin wee' and 'rabbit plops.' :-)
英語ぷらす listing
Happy to see we are included on a list of nine recommended English schools around Higashi-Shinjuku Station. Thank you to the people at eigo plus (英語ぷらす) for the listing!
The actual page is too long to quote in full but basically they list sixteen points to check for when choosing a school to learn English at. This is point sixteen:
'英語そのものは独学でも学べますが、コミュニケーションスキルである英会話はやはり実際に誰かを相手に使う事でしか身につけることはできません。
そのために英会話教室に通おうと決めた際、「失敗した……」「無駄なお金を使った……」とならないためにも、気をつけるべきポイントをしっかり確認して、東新宿であなたに合った英会話教室を見つけましょう。
きっと楽しく通っているうちに、とても自然に英語で話せていることに気づいて驚く日がやってきますよ！'
Which basically says that, while it's possible to learn English on your own, you can't learn how to have a conservation without having somebody to talk too. So get yourself along to englishpool (or one of the other eight schools) after carefully checking the previous fifteen points.
The link for the orginal page is https://eigo.plus/school/higashi_shinjuku
Trick or Treat
We're loving this Halloween craft, from Super Simple, in our Sprouts and Kinder classes this week. Super easy to make and a great way to learn some simple Halloween vocabulary, as well as introducing Trick or Treat to the younger students.
And that's not all, it even has it's own Trick or Treat song and video..
Enjoy...and Happy Halloween!
Chin-anago
Conversation in one of our upper elementary classes last week:
Me: "What's your favourite fish or sea animal?"
Student: "I like Chin-anago"
Me: "..."
Time to search the internet I thought, a couple of clicks later searching on チンアナゴ and wikipedia had given us a picture and an English name, Spotted Garden Eel.
So now you know. I love it when I get to learn something in my classes too!
Halloween Cooking
Halloween fun from the Super Simple team. Watch the Bumble Nums gather ingredients for a special halloween snack.
Halloween Party 2018
The nights are drawing in, and while there's not yet a chill in the air; the witching hour is fast approaching.
It can all only mean that we're getting ready for the Halloween Party. This year we'll be holding two parties on 28th October, for Sprouts and Kinder students the party will start at 2:30 and finish at 4pm.The party for Elementary aged students will be from 4:30pm to 6pm.
Costumes are mandatory!
New School Chirashi
Well, I finally redesigned our school leaflet, called chirashi in Japanese. The can't believe that we had been using the old leaflet, more or less unchanged, for nine years.
Hopefully the new chirsahi will be just as successful as the previous version.
You can take a look for yourself by clicking here: 2018 スクールチラシ(PDF)
Thank you for reading!
Reading Challenge
Starting this week we have set our elementary students a challenge; to read sixteen books from across our graded reading series.
For each book they read they will receive a stamp on their challenge card, and a full card will entitle them to choose a present.
The graded reader series we have available are Oxford Reading Tree, Rigby Star, Learn Abouts, Songbirds, Collins Big Cat, Projext X, Penguin Kids, Floppy's Phonics and Tom and Bella (from Jelly and Bean.)
Ganbatte!
Passports Please!
At last, the third set of passports are ready to be issued to our Kinder class students. For each unit in the textbook, I have listed the vocabulary they have learned as well as a very simple phrase they will have mastered during the unit. Upon completion they will receive a stamp in their passport.
Hopefully they will be as well received as in the Elementary classes, where the passports are keeping everybody focused on progressing and gaining more stamps.
An Origami Fish
Received this delightful origami fish from one of our younger students yesterday.
A perfect match for one of my favourite children's books Hooray for Fish; stripey fish, scary fish, elefish and origami paperfish!
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EduSearch Listing
Thank you to EduSearch for this listing on their Higashi Shinjuku Eikaiwa page, I think it sums englishpool up nicely;
東新宿で子どもから大人まで学べる英会話教室
イングリッシュプール 英会話教室
イングリッシュプール 英会話教室は、主に子供の英語に焦点を置いた英会話教室で、3歳から中学生、高校生までレッスンを行っています。
子供に楽しんで英語を勉強してもらいたい、子供に英語に対する興味を持たせたい、小学校の英語教育の変化に対応させたいなどのニーズに対応していて、子供が英語に興味を持つようさまざまな仕掛けをしています。また、ペンフレンドとの交流などの企画も行っています。無料体験レッスンも行っているので、気軽に体験することができます。
このような対応も、ベテラン講師による、子供に英語に対する興味を持たせるための文通などのさまざまな試行錯誤が、子供たちに受け入れられ、効果的な英語教育につながっているからこそ実現できているのでしょう。
クリスマスやハロウィンなどのイベントも企画されているので、子供たちは飽きることなく英語の学習を進めることができます。
・レッスンの種類:スプラウツ、キンダー、小学、中学、大人
・料金(時間/回数) :9,400円～25,900円
・レッスン形態:集団、個別
・講師:外国人講師
・住所:〒160-0022東京都新宿区新宿7-3-36 戸山センチュリー102
・アクセス:若松河田駅 徒歩5分
・公式サイト:イングリッシュプール 英会話教室
Thank you.
Yummy Yucky
Two new books for the library. Yummy Yucky and Quiet Loud by Leslie Patricelli.
Yummy Yucky is actually a replacement for a lost copy, it was always a go to book when teaching food topics and has been sorely missed.
Quiet and Loud is along the same lines and looks like it will work well when teaching opposites.
We're Open
After the summer holiday englishpool is open again. Need English? We are here to help!
Summer 2018
This is our summer window for 2018. I decided this year to give the whole window area over to the display.
It consists of various speech bubbles with snippets of English such as "What's your favourite food?","Can you play tennis?", "How old are you?" etc along with a height chart for the question, "How tall are you?" The whole idea being that it encourages those who notice it to participate by asking and answering questions in English.
By the way englishpool is closed between July 29 to August 22.
