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5th grade students had their third and last lesson on the topic, Hi, friends!1 Lesson 3 `How many?`. In this class they introduced their favorite kanji to their friends through a quiz while using the question `How many strokes?`.

As always we started class with a greeting game and the teachers did a demonstration with one of the students.
"How many stars? Let's count!"
"1, 2, 3..."

After watching the demonstration, everyone else greeted each other and tried to ask questions using the phrase `How many~?`.
"How many stars?"

"How many letters?"

Next, we finished the janken activity in Hi,friends!1 Lesson3 `How many?`. The students did janken ten times with their first during the first class on this topic. This time we changed their pairs and they did janken another ten times.
"Rock, scissors, paper. 1, 2, 3!!"

"Yes, I won! I'll write a circle."
The students counted the number of circles and triangles they had written today and during the janken game overall, raising their hand when Ms. Emily asked, "How many circles? 1 circle? 2 circles?".

After that, the teachers did a demonstration of our main activity. They each wrote their favorite kanji on a piece of paper and had to guess the other person's favorite kanji.
"How many stokes?"
"9 strokes."
"Hmmm. The `mi` (美)　in Ms. Mayumi?"
"Nice idea but no."
"Hint, please!"
"Zzzzzzz" (It's a sleeping sound.)

"Do you like 眠?"
"Yes, I do!"
"Why?"
"I like sleeping!"

After watching the demonstration the students took some time to write out their favorite kanji and think of some hints. We had told the students the previous day to think about the kanji they like so they were prepared for this activity.

Next, the students gave their quizzes in pairs.
"How many strokes?"
"9 stokes."
"Hint, please."
"Flower...like this."
"咲?"
"That's right!"

Then, the students got into groups and did their quizzes together.
"What's your favorite kanji?"

"How many stokes?"

Lastly, the students walked around the room freely and talked to many people about the kanji they like.
It was interesting to hear about the different kanji and the reasons that people have for liking them. Many students like a kanji that is in their name the best.

Good job, 5th grade students!

5th grade students recently had their second lesson on the topic Hi, friends!1 Lesson 3 `How many?`. These students studied telling the time last year as well as the numbers 1-60 so in this class we studied the numbers 1-100.

We started class with a greeting game. Ms. Emily and one of the students gave a demonstration using the phrase `How many?`.
"How many diamonds?"
"Let's count. 1, 2, 3, 4...oh! So many!"

After watching the demonstration it was time for the other students to ask each other.
"How many letters?"

"How many circles?"

After the greeting game Ms. Emily and Ms. Mayumi did Teacher Talk.
"Look at my pencil case."
"Wow! It's so big!"
"Guess! How many pens and pencils?"
"Hmmm... maybe 10?"
All the students also guessed the numbers of pens and pencils in Ms. Mayumi's pencil case.

Then, everyone checked together.
"Let's count!"
"1, 2, 3, 4..."

After that we decided to find out which student had the most pens and pencils in their pencil case. Everyone stood up and we counted together. When the student finished counting they sat down. The last person standing had the most pens and pencils.
"Hmmm...how many pens and pencils?"

After that, we did the chants from Let's Try!1 Unit 3 `How many?`.
The students tried to do actions while saying as much of the chant as they could.

Next, we counted the balls that the 1st grade students used during sports day. The four classes want to make the competition fair so they need four sets of the same number of balls. In order to do this the 5th grade students needed to count all the balls.
Everyone counted together in small groups. It was important to count as a group so everyone could practice counting.

The groups did their best to count carefully.

After each of the groups had finished we asked them "How many balls?".
We collected all the results together so we knew which colour of balls had the least amount.

This team had 44 balls!

We added all the numbers together in English.
"51 plus 49 equals?"
"100!"
"That's right!"
Then we asked all the students to count out 88 balls so that each class would have the same amount.

Everyone took turns at putting the balls into the box while counting together.
It was very easy to lose count so everyone had to count carefully together!

It was a fun activity to do together. Everyone felt happy when they counted everything perfectly!

Good job everyone! 1st grade students can now use the balls in their P.E. classes!

5th grade students had a class studying two different topics. Recently they have been studying Hi,friends!1 Lesson 5 `What do you like?` and since the students didn't finish their presentations of their T-shirts in the last class we used the first part of this class to complete that topic. We also started a new topic, Hi, friends!1 Lesson 3 `How many?`. It was a very busy lesson!

We started class with our usual greeting games. Ms. Emily and one of the students did a demonstration. We wanted to demonstration that you can have more than one answer to a "What ~ do you like?" question.
"What colors do you like?"
"I like red, yellow and purple."
"Nice!"

After watching the demonstration it was time for all the students to greet each other.
Good gestures! Gestures are a very important part of communication!

Nice smile! Good job!

Great eye contact! We need to look at each other when we talk.

The students enjoyed asking each other all sorts of questions.
"What animals do you like?"
"I like cats."

Some students even used phrases they had previously studied in Tomilish Time.
"What sports do you like?"
"Guess what?"
"Hmmm....."

Everyone tried hard to talk to many different people.

After the greeting game the teachers asked the students who they had talked to and what they said. This helps the students to realise the importance of listening carefully when they are speaking with each other.
"I asked about what colors she likes and she said that she likes purple and green."

Next, we had the remaining students, who had not talked about their T-shirt designs in the previous class, complete their presentations.
"Who designed this T-shirt?"

The students talked about how they designed their T-shirts.
"I thought about the shapes they said they like. They like stars the best so I made the star the biggest."

The students receiving the T-shirts also talked about what they liked.
"I like these colors."

"It's nice!"

After the presentations the students wrote their feedback about this topic.
Many students were happy to learn about what shapes and colors their friends like.

We had some students present what they wrote.
"It was fun to design t-shirts while thinking about the other person."

Next, we had `Teacher Talk` for the start of our new topic, Hi, friends!1 Unit 3 `How many?`. When Ms. Mayumi visited Rakuten with the 5th grade students she noticed that one of the students had many keychains on their backpack. She borrowed the backpack so everyone could count the keychains together.
"How many keychains?"
"18, 19, 20, 21! 21 keychains!"
"Wow! So many!"

After that, we did the chants from Let's Try!1 Unit 3 `How many?`.
Since it was the first time to hear the chant we listened a few times before trying to say as much of the chant as we could together.

Lastly, we played rock, paper, scissors (janken) in pairs. The teachers did a demonstration first. Everyone played ten times.
"Rock, paper, scissors. 1, 2, 3!"

The students really enjoyed this activity.

They wrote a circle if they won, a triangle if they drew and a cross if they lost. Then everyone counted their shapes.

"How many circles? Raise your hand. 1 circle!"
Good job everyone! It was a fun class!

On the last day of term before summer vacation 5th grade students studied their last class on Hi, friends!1 Lesson 3 `How many?`. We decided to only do two classes on this topic (plus Tomilish Time) because the students really seemed like they understood everything well after one class.

The class started with a greeting game. In the first class they asked questions about their friends clothes "How many pockets?" or "How many stars?". However, in this class they asked questions about things in their house.
"How many beyblades?"

"How many pets?"

Next, we did the Hi, friends! chants. In the last class we did version 1 (numbers 1-10) and version 2 (numbers 6-15). This week we did version 3 (numbers 11-20) and version 4 (numbers 1-20).

After the chants we did the counting activity in the textbook `How many? Quiz`. Ms. Emily asked everyone questions and everyone raced to answer.
"How many dogs?"
"3 dogs!" "Me, too! 3 dogs!"
The students have started to say "Me, too!" when they agree with the first person's answer.

Next, we did the apple activity. Some of the students had the idea to use two colors. Red apples are normal apples and blue apples are `poisoned` apples. The students remembered this English from the Snow White skit that last year's 5th grade students did.
By using two colors it raises the chances that students will meet someone with the same number as them. The students could chose which question to ask: "How many apple?" or "How many poisoned apples?". It made the activity a little more interesting for them.

The students walked around and talked to many people to try and find someone with the same number of apples as them.
"How many apples?"
"7 apples."
"Me, too! Sign, please."

Everyone was using their textbook but they tried hard to make eye contact when asking and answering questions.
Great eye contact!

Well done everyone! Enjoy your summer vacation!

5th grade students have just started to study Hi,friends!1 Lesson 3 `How many?`. First the teachers did a small `Teachers Talk`. "Wow! You have many pens! How many pens?"
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 6 pens!"
Then they asked the students to guess what they talked about. After that the students did a warm-up greeting game.
They could ask each other "How many ~?" questions, for example: "How many shoes?".

Can you guess what he was asked?
"How many lines?". He is counting the lines on his hand!

If students didn't know the English they could ask in Japanese and then check the English with Ms. Emily afterwards. This makes everyone relaxed and they can learn some new English, too!
Nice eye contact!

Everyone tried to talk to many people and asked good questions. "How many pockets?"
"3 pockets!" Great smile!

The teachers picked some good students to give a demonstration.
Good job!

After warming up we did the Hi, friends! chants for Lesson 3 and also sang the `7 steps' song. We like replacing the numbers in the song with jumps and spins. We didn't take any pictures because all the teachers were jumping and dancing, too. It was so much fun!

After that we played the `Don't say 20.` game.
The students make groups and take turns to say 1, 2 or 3 numbers. The person who says 20 has lost the game.

Everyone enjoyed playing this game a lot.
By practicing pronuncing the English in groups the students don't feel bad if they make a mistake and other students can help them if they forget.

Some students were very good at avoiding saying `20`.
Ms. Keiko lost the game twice in a row! Never mind, Ms. Keiko!

Next, we played the `Number Gift` game. We were taught this game by 5th grade teachers from Nagamachi Elementary School. Thank you!
The students take turns to say the numbers from 1-20 in order. They `pass` the number to the next person. The person who receives `20` is lucky!
"1!" The next person has to say "2!" and point to someone else. They have to `pass` the numbers nicely.

"7!".
It's a nice game for practicing making eye contact.

"20!"
"Thank you!". The person to receive `20` says "Thank you!".

We also did some other activities using numbers. The students got into pairs and checking the contents of their pencil cases.
"How many pencils?" "5 pencils!"
It was a good chance to learn the English words for stationary, too!

Lastly, the students asked each other about the janken game that they played in Upper Grades Tomilish Time. "How many circles?"
"10 circles!"
"Wow! You are good at janken!"

Good job everyone!