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Recently, 6th grade students had their last lesson on We Can! 1 Unit 2 "When is your birthday?". Since they studied about birthdays last year as well we used the opportunity to study a different topic using dates. The students created their own original events and did presentations about them. Half of the students presented about their events in the previous class and the rest of them finished in this class.

As we wanted a lot of time for the students to do their presentations we skipped our usual greeting game and chants and went straight to the presentations.

First, Ms. Mayumi and one of the students did a demonstration. While the student demonstrated how to do an enthusiastic presentation, Ms. Mayumi showed the students watching and listening what sorts of reactions they should make.
"Oh! Nice idea!"

After watching the demonstration it was time for the other students to do their presentations.
"Hello!"

First, they introduced themselves.
"My name is ~."

Then they introduced their original event.
"I produce `Dragonfly Festival`".
"Oh!"

The students also encouraged others to react to their event annoucements.
"I produce `Eclair Festival`. Yeay!!"

After that the students talked about the date of their festival.
"It's on February 9th."
"Why?"
The students explained their reasoning in Japanese, "The numbers 2 and 9 sound like `meat` so it's on February 9th."

After that the students talked about the activities that are part of their event in Japanese.
Nice smile!

Good eye contact!

Good job!

Great gestures!

The students ended their presentations by asking the other students to come to their event.
"Please come! See you!"

Everyone tried their best. This was their first time doing a presentation so it was a little difficult for them.

Here are some examples of the events that the students created.
Eggs from around the world! Sounds interesting!

I want to try foreign sweets, too!

Talking is so fun!

Good job 6th grade students! You did your best!

6th grade students had two English classes this week. They used those classes to finish creating their original events and started presenting on them to the class. The students who didn't manage to present this week will do their presentations next week.

At the start of the class the teachers picked some students to give a good demonstration of the greeting game.
"What's your favorite subject?"
"Guess what?"
"Hint, please."
*gesture hint*
"Oh! Science?"
"Yes! I like science!"

The students focused on remembered what the other person said as well as linking their questions to make a natural conversation.
"Do you like soccer?"
"Yes, I do!"
"Oh! What's your favorite soccer team?"

"Do you like grapefuits?"
"No, I don`t. I like apples. Do you like apples?"
"Yes, I do!"

"Do you like music?"
"Yes, I do."
"Can you play the recorder?"
"Yes, I can."

Next, we did the chant and then checked the goal for the class.


After that, Mayumi-Sensei did a demonstration of how to give a good presentation including making eye contact.
The students have not memorized their presentations but Mayumi-Sensei recommended that they acted like news presenters by reading and looking up to make eye contact from time to time.

In order for the students not presenting to have a reason to listen carefully we gave everyone a worksheet to fill out.
Also during the presentations they had to react to what the presenter was saying.

The students who did their presentations this week were very nervous but they tried their best!
"Hello! My name is ~."

"I like ice cream so I produce the `Ice cream Festival."

"I produce the `Light up Festival. It's on December 21st."
The class always asked about the date, "Why?".
The students could answer in Japanese. "It's the shortest day of the year so it's the best day for a festival with lights."

After talking about the date the students talked about the activities in their event in Japanese.
"In the Yakiniku Festival you can eat many different kinds of meat."

"In the Music Festival there will be a special song release."

"In the Dog Festival you can meet many different breeds of dogs."

The students finished by asking the other students to visit their event.
" Please come to the Baseball Festival!"

Good job everyone. We are looking forward to seeing the rest of the presentations next week!

Recently 6th grade students studied their third lesson on We Can! 1 Unit 2 "When is your birthday?". Since they studied this grammar point last year too we decided to focus on something other than birthdays in order to make it more interesting. In this class the students created their own event.

First, after our usual greetings, two of the students volunteered to give a demonstration of the greeting game.
"Can you play the piano?"
"Yes, I can."

Next, everyone else tried to use all the English they have studied so far in order to have conversations with their friends.
Nice smile!

Good eye contact and gestures.

Then, we did the chant from We Can!1. It's a difficult and fast chant. The students tried to do gestures, too. You can see the concentration in their faces!
"July 7th, August 8th, September 9th..."

After that, Ms. Emily talked about strange festivals and events around the world. It was very interesting to learn about them.
In Thailand they have a buffet for monkeys. It is held in November.

Next, the homeroom teacher confirmed with everyone about the goal for the class.
"Let's make our own original event that everyone will enjoy."

Ms. Mayumi showed a demonstration.
It's important for the students to see a demonstration so they know what to aim for.

The students had to think about some events and activities. It was important that people would want to take part in the festival.
She had thought hard about the date, too. The date of her event a play on the word natto.

Ms. Emily wrote the months of the year on the board.
She also wrote any words that the students wanted to use in their event name. This meant that the students just had to copy the words in English.

Everyone worked hard to create their events.


They thought about what would be interest and what kind of event they would like, too.
After they have finished preparing their events they will all give presentations. We are looking forward to hearing about all the different ideas that people had.

Today 6th grade students studied their second lesson on We Can! 1 Unit 2 "When is your birthday?". We focused on listening activities to build their confidence in understanding dates.

The greetings at the start of the class are led by the class leaders for that day.
"Good morning everyone!"

Next, Ms. Emily and one of the students did a demonstration for the greeting game. Recently they have been using the phrase "What is your favorite~?" a lot so we decided to show a demonstration using many other phrases.
"Ms. Emily, can you speak Spanish?"
"Yes, I can! Hola!"

"Can you play the recorder?"
"Yes, I can."

"When is your birthday?"
"My birthday is March 14th."

"Do you like natto?"
"No, I don't."

"Can you speak Japanese?"
"Yes, I can!"

Next, we did the chant for that unit with gestures. After that we did `Let's Listen 1` and `Let's Watch and Think 2`.
The students had to listen to the festival descriptions (Let's Listen 1) or watch the video (Let's Watch and Think 2) in order to draw a line from the festival picture to the correct month.

"We hold snowball fights in February."
"Let's draw a line to February."

After the listening activities we played bingo with ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.).
Ms. Emily said the numbers and the homeroom teacher didn't write the number on the board until Ms. Emily was saying the next number. That gave everyone time to think while still making them listen to the numbers that Ms. Emily said.

Everyone listened carefully!

After Ms. Emily said the numbers everyone repeated them.
"First!"

The students tried to get `Bingo!` and everyone enjoyed it so much that we kept playing until someone got a full house (all numbers erased). The students called this `Perfect Bingo`.
"Perfect!!"

Good job 6th grade students. It was a fun class!

This week 6th grade students have started to studying We Can! 1 Unit 2 "When is your birthday?". They studied this topic very briefly last year but this is the first time that they will study it in detail.

As always, we started class with a greeting game. The students used all the English that they have studied so far in order to keep it fresh in their memories.
"What is your favorite sport?"
"I like soccer."
"Me, too."

"What colors do you like?"
"I like blue and green."

"Can you ride a unicycle?"
"No, I can't."

"What's this?"
"It's a key."

The teachers got some students to give a good demonstration.
Great eye contact!

Next, the teachers talked about their birthdays and what they want for their birthday. The students had to listen carefully and pick out the words they knew. After that, we did the chant for that unit and practiced how to ask and answer the question "When is your birthday?". Since the students also studied this last year, it wasn't new for them.

Then, we played the `Famous Peoples' Birthdays` game. The students each got a card with a famous person and their birthday.
They had to pretend to be that person and ask other people about their birthdays. They could swap cards so they had many chances to practice the different months of the year and ordinal numbers.

"What's your name?"
"My name is Chaplin."

"When is your birthday?"
"My birthday is May 15th."

Half-way through the activity the teachers got some of the students to give a good demonstration.
The students really tried hard to become the famous people. They changed their voices and used gestures.
Everyone continued with the activity while keeping the good points about the demonstration in mind.

"What's your name?"
"My name is Shotokutaishi."
"When is your birthday?"
"My birthday is February 7th."

Lastly the students reflect on the class. Some students found famous people with the same birthdays as themselves. Everyone was surprised!

Nice work!

5th grade students have recently finished studying the topic `When is your birthday?`. It is actually from Hi,friends!2 Lesson 2 but this year 5th grade students sometimes have two English classes a week so we have been doing some extra topics, too.

Our first few classes on the topic we focused on learning the names of the months in English and also how to say dates. In our final classes on the topic we did two main activities: a listening activity and a conversation activity.

In the listening activity the students had to listen to the teachers tell them their birthdays. They had to draw a line between the teacher's name and their birthday.
Everyone had to listen very carefully! Everyone was very interested to learn when all the teachers' birthdays were.

The other main activity was a conversation activity. Everyone had to ask their friends when their birthdays were. First the teachers gave a demonstration.
"Hello! When is your birthday?"

Then it was time for the students to ask, too. Some times we asked the students to take notes on their friends birthdays. Other times we asked them to find people with the same birthday month as themselves.
Nice smile!

Good eye contact!

Great gestures!

It was a difficult topic for the 5th grade students but everyone tried very hard. Well done!