富沢小学校 Tomilishブログ

4th grade students had their fifth and last class on the topic is `This is my day.` using the `Good Morning` picture book. In previous classes the students learned how to talk about their daily routine and made picture story shows (kamishibai) in groups. In this class they performed those shows for the other students.

The groups took turns to perform for everyone.
The students had all drawn pictures about the same character.

Other members of the group held the picture while the student who drew it introduced it in English while doing gestures.
"I get up."

4th grade students have been focusing this year on improving their gestures so they all tried to do them while speaking.
Great gesture!!

The students introduced the daily routine of their character.
"I brush my teeth."

Some students showed great originality. In the storybook the character combs his hair, however Doraemon is a cat, so he is different.
"I comb my whiskers."

I wonder what they are eating.
"I have breakfast."

"I go to school."
The pictures and gestures made it easy for everyone to understand.

"I watch TV."
Souta-kun likes the same T.V. shows as the students!

"I dream a wonderful dream."
Nobita dreams about getting 100 on a test. Of course Doraemon dreams about dorayaki. Nice ideas!

It was very fun to see what the other students had created.
Good job everyone! Let's try hard in English class next year, too!

4th grade students had their third and fourth classes on the topic is `This is my day.` using the `Good Morning` picture book. In the first two classes we listened to the story and focused on learning how to talk about our daily routine. In the next two classses we had mixed English and art classes as the students made picture story shows (kamishibai) in groups.

After our usual greetings, we reviewed the daily routine phrases that we had studied in the previous classes.
"I study English."

Next, the students decided in their groups what pictures they would draw.
Each group had 4 or 5 members so the students each had to draw at least two pictures.

Each group decided on a character.
Some of the characters were famous cartoon characters and others were original characters that the students created.

The students could draw pictures that appeared in the story.
Some students also created their own original pictures for their character's daily routine such as snowboarding or playing baseball.

The students worked hard on their pictures in groups.
"Look! Our character looks like you!"

The students really enjoyed creating their own characters and drawing the pictures together.
Nice drawing!

Some of the students shared the work, too.One student was in charge of drawing the picture and the other student was in charge of coloring and adding details.
Nice teamwork!

Here are some examples of pictures that the students drew. They are still working on them so they are not finished yet.
"I wake up."

"I comb my hair."
The little green man has very little hair but he still combs it! Good job!

"I eat breakfast."
I wonder what Doraemon eats for breakfast.

"I finish my dinner."
Souta-kun eats ramen for dinner. It looks delicious!

The students all did their best to create good pictures.


It was a lot of fun to work together!
Good job!

In the next class the students will present their character's daily routine. It will be very interesting to watch!

4th grade students had their second class on the topic is `This is my day.` using the `Good Morning` picture book. In this first class we focused on the first half of the story. In this class we focused on the second half of the story.

As always we started class with a greeting game. The students have been practicing using the phrase "What is your favorite~?" that they studied in Tomilish Time.
Nice gestures!

Good eye contact!

Nice smile!

Good reaction!

After the greeting game we checked the goal for the class.
"Let's learn about Kazu's daily routine."

We used the digital version of the storybook to listen to the story again.
After listening to the story Ms. Emily asked many questions about the second half of the story.

"What's this?"
"It's a cat."
"That's right!"

Next, the students received small story cards and had to rearrange the cards into the correct order.
They put the cards in the same order as the story.

"Hmmm....what comes next?"
"Oh! It's this card! This one is next!"

After the students had put the cards in order, we checked the correct order together as a class.Ms. Emily helped us to pronounce each part of the `daily routine` in English. We also did gestures.
"I wash my face."

Some students were really good at doing the gestures.
"I comb my hair!"
Good job!

Finally, we listen to the chant. It's very fast!
Everyone did their best to at least do the gestures. Since it was the second time for the students to hear the chant some students also started singing along, too.

We all stood up and did the gestures together.
"I play with my friends."
Ms. Mayumi is going a great soccer gesture! Nice!

Good job everyone!

4th grade students have recently had their first class on a new topic. The topic is `This is my day.` and we are using the `Good Morning` picture book.

As usual, we started by greeting as a class.


Next, we had a greeting game. Before starting, the teachers did a demonstration.
"Let's watch!"

"Nice jacket. Do you like black?"
"Yes, I do."
"What's your favorite color?"
"Guess what?"
"Blue?"
"No."
"Red?"
"Yes! It's red!"

After watching the demonstration all the students stood up and did the greeting game, too.
Good eye contact!

Nice smiles!

After the greeting game we all confirmed the goal for the class.
"Let's listen to the story!"

The main part of the class was listening to the story `Good Morning`.


Ms. Emily used the digital version of the story to read to everyone.
In the first class we focused on the first half of the story. After Ms. Emily had read us the whole story once, she went through the first half of the story again asking questions.
"What color is this?"
"What animal is this?"
"How many?"

Next, we reviewed the story together.
"The pages are all out of order. Let's remember the story and put them back in order!"

The students used mini cards.
"Hmmm...what comes next?"

"Maybe this one?"

Then we checked the answers together as a class.
"I think this one is next."

Everyone said whether they had the same answer or not.
"Is it okay? Good job!"
Ms. Emily read each page as we put it in order and everyone repeated after her.

Next, we played the pointing game.
We had to point to the right page as Ms. Emily read them.

Lastly we did the chant. It was super fast so everyone just did gestures with the chant. Can you tell what gesture this it?
"I wash my face!"

In the next class we will focus more on the second part of the story. Everyone is interested in learning more! Good work!