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This week both 5th and 6th grade students have continued studying their topics during Upper Grades Tomilish Time.

5th grade students have been studying the alphabet. This week they did `Let's Listen` from Hi,friends!1 Lesson 6 `What do you want?`.
"Join the dots like this!"

The students had to listen to the digital materials and join the dots in order to make a shape.
I wonder what it will be!

The students helped each other if they got stuck.

Look! It's an `R` for rabbit!

6th grade students used the time to prepare some worksheets that we will use during normal English class. The student had to think about where they want to go and the reasons why.
"Hmmm...where would be a nice place to go?"

The teachers prepared a sheet with many different counties names so the students just had to copy the name of the country that they wanted to visit.
If the country wasn't on the list then they could ask the teachers to write the English word for them.

Some students needed ideas of what they could see or eat in their chosen country.
The teachers researched it for them.

Once they had made their choices they filled out their worksheet.

Here are some examples of the worksheets:
Some students drew pictures.

Other students wrote in detail in Japanese. As long as students could say their main point in English they were free to complete the worksheet as they liked.

Good job everyone!

This week during Upper Grades Tomilish Time, 5th grade students prepared alphabet cards to use in future activites and played some simple games. 6th grade students did some activities from the We Can!1 textbook to complement their studies.

5th grade students have just started studying the capital letters of the alphabet. They used this time to prepare some small cards that we will use in many activities.
"Cut out these cards and write your name, please."

The students carefully cut out each card.

By using Tomilish Time the students can prepare the cards without having to take up English class time.
Once the students had finished cutting out the cards they used the cards in order to spell out their name, family name and some simple two letter words such as CD and TV.

6th Grade have started studying We Can!1 Unit 6 `I want to go to Italy.` They did the activity `Let's Watch and Think 2`.
The students watched each video twice in order to try and figure out what the characters want to do in America and Egypt.

When watching the first time the students were told to try and catch a few words if they could. They didn't have to understand everything.

Next, we asked the students to open their textbooks and look at the pictures.
The pictures gave them hints about what the characters were saying. We asked them to pick out 4 key words about each country.

After watching each video for a second time the teachers asked the students what they thought the 4 key words were. The character who wanted to visit America talked about the statue of Liberty, Majoy League Baseball, Time Square and Niagara Falls.
The students were able to pick out these key words well.

Good job everyone!

This week during Upper Grades Tomilish Time, 5th grade students did some listening activities based on their current English studied. 6th grade students used the time to prepare `Who is he/she?` quizzes about their friends that we will use in English class this week.

5th grade students have been studying Hi,friends!1 Lesson 3 `How many?` and just recently had their last class on the topic. We started class by doing our usual greeting questions.
"What time is it now?"
"It's 8:30 A.M."

Next, we did two different set of chants. In class the students have been doing the chant from Let's Try!1 Unit 3 `How many?` however this time we also did the chant from Hi,friends!1 Lesson 3 `How many?` .
First, the students listened to the chants carefully.

Next, everyone stood up and tried to do the chants together while doing gestures.
"How many pencils?"

After the chants, everyone did the `Let's Listen` activity from the Hi, friends!1 textbook.
The students listened to people from different countries counting and had to match the counting to the correct country.

6th grade students have been studying We Can!1 Unit 5 `She can run fast. He can jump high.` In this Tomilish Time, the students prepared quizzes about their friends. First, the teachers explained what to do.
They had to pick a friend to introduce and make 3 hints (2 hints using `He/She can~.` and 1 hint using `He/She is~.`) in order to make a `Who is he/she?` quiz.

The students could draw a picture of their friend and cut out cards from the textbook to complete sentences about their friend.
The teachers did a demonstration, too.

Everyone thought carefully about who they wanted to make a quiz about.
They copied their friends name onto their worksheet.

Everyone looked carefully at the different cards in the textbook to find good hints for their quiz.
"Hmm...what should I pick..."

The students cut out the cards their wanted to use and stuck them to their worksheets.
"My friend can swim so I'll use this card."

The teachers were there to help the students with writing.
They wrote out anything that the students wanted to write for the students to copy.

Here is one example of a worksheet:
Most of the students will finish preparting their quizzes in English class. Through using Tomilish Time in this way we could save a lot of time in English class that will give us more time to ask and answer the quizzes instead.

Good job everyone! You worked hard!

This week both 5th and 6th grade students did activities to suppliment their studies in their English classes during Upper Grades Tomilish Time. Both grades have started studying new topics.

5th grade students have started studying Hi,friends!1 Lesson 3 `How many?`. After our usual greetings we did the chant from Let's Try!1 Unit 3 `How many?`.
Everyone stood up and did the chant together with gestures.

"How many pencils?"

Next, we did the `Let's Play : How many apples?` activity from the same unit in Let's Try!1.
Everyone had to count together.

First we only showed the picture for a few seconds and then asked the students to guess the number.
"How many tomatoes?"

Next, we showed them the picture for a long time so everyone could count together.
"1, 2, 3 ..."

6th grade students have started studying We Can!1 Unit 5 `She can run fast. He can jump high.` We did the `Let's watch and think` activities from both Unit 1 and Unit 5. The point was not to try and understand everything but instead to try and catch some words.
"What words did you catch?"

"I know! I heard `table tennis`."
"Good job!"

Everyone listened carefully!

Good work everyone!

Recently both 5th and 6th grade students have been doing presentations in their English classes so we used Upper Grades Tomilish Time for the students to show their presentations to students from other classes.

5th grade students had designed t-shirts for their friends and made presentations about those t-shirts. All the students gathered together in the same room and we started by going a greeting game. The students asked each other "What ~ do you like?" questions. Everyone had a lot of fun!
"What TV programs fo you like?"
"I like Itte Q."
"Oh! Me, too!"

"What sports do you like?"
"I like volleyball!"

After the greeting game, representatives from each class showed their design presentations to everyone. First, the students asked each other questions without showing the designs.
"What shapes do you like?"
"I like stars."
"What colors do you like?"
"I like blue and purple."
After asking these questions the students showed their designs.
They explained what they had thought about while designing the t-shirt and the student receiving the t-shirt gave their reaction.

After each student had shown their designs the other students also talked about the good points of their presentations.
"They really thought about the other person."

Lastly, they exchanged their t-shirt designs.
"This is for you."
"Thank you!"

6th grade students had created their own original events as part of learning about months and dates. All the students gathered together in the same room and we started by going a greeting game. First we asked two students to give a good demonstration. The students could use any of the English they have studied so far in order to have a natural conversation.
"What sports do you like?"
"I like baseball."
"Me, too! Can you play baseball?"
"Yes, I can. What baseball team do you like?"
The students were great at linking questions naturally.

After watching the demonstration it was time for everyone else to talk to each other.
It was interesting to talk to students from other classes.

Next, the students could introduce the events they created to students from other classes. By mixing the classes we can make sure that the students can repeat the same activities and have a further chance to practice their English without becoming bored.
"I produced `Game Day`."

"It's on April 1st."

Students really enjoyed hearing about their friends events.

"Great!"
Good job everyone! You created some great events!

This week both 5th and 6th grade students did activities to suppliment their studies in their English classes during Upper Grades Tomilish Time.

5th grade students have been studying Hi,friends!1 Lesson 5 `What do you like?`. They did both the chant and the `Let's watch and think` activity in Let's Try!1 Unit 5.
In the video the characters asked each other about the things they like.

Everyone watched the video and listened carefully.
As students do not have copies of the 'Let's Try!1' textbook we used the digital version of the textbook and answered the questions together as a class.

6th grade students continued studying We Can!1 Unit 2 "When is your birthday?". First they did the chant.
"September 9th!"

It's a difficult chant that the students have found hard in class so we have also been practicing it as much as possible in Tomilish Time.
Everyone did their best to say the parts of the chant that they could!

Next, they did the activities `Let's Listen 2` and `Let's Listen 3`.
Everyone had to listen carefully.

They drew a line from the character to their birthday.

Both 5th and 6th grade students finished Upper Grades Tomilish Time by sticking a ziplock bag into their English file.
They will use it to hold their name tag as well as some small cards that we use in class.

The completed files look like this:
Good job everyone!

This week both 5th and 6th grade students will start new topics in their English classes so we did some introduction activities in Upper Grades Tomilish Time.

5th grade students will start Hi,friends!1 Lesson 5 `What do you like?`. This week they did the activities `Let's Listen 1` and `Let's Listen 2`.
The students had to listen very carefully in both activities.

In `Let's Listen 1` the students had to listen to descriptions of t-shirts and pick out the right T-shirt.
"White T-shirt. Red and green apples. What number T-shirt?"
"It's T-shirt No.5."

In `Let's Listen 2` the students had to listen to each character describing what they like and find the perfect T-shirt for them.
"I like soccer and I like black."

"What number T-shirt?"
"I know! It's T-shirt No.7."

6th grade students will start We Can!1 Unit 2 "When is your birthday?". First, the students on duty of that day led the greetings.
"Stand up, please. Hello, everyone!"

They did `Let's Watch and Think 1". They picked a month and watched a video about a festival in that month.
"Look at September. What country's flag is this?"
"America!"
"Yes, that's right. Let's watch about the festival in America in September."

The students had to listen very carefully to catch the words that they recognised.
"I heard the word `Hawaii`."
"I heard the word `dance`."
"Good job catching those words!"

Some of the festivals were new to the students.
It was interesting to hear about festivals around the world!

Good job everyone!

In this week's Upper Grades Tomilish Time both 5th and 6th grade students did activities from the textbook.

5th grade students did `Let's Listen 3` from We Can!1 Unit 1 `Hello, everyone.`
The students listened to the three characters talking about what they want.

First, the students listened once without taking notes.
They tried to catch the words that they understood.

Next, everyone listened two more times while taking notes so they could answer the questions.
After listening to the characters three times in total, everyone checked their answers together.

6th grade students did Activity 1 from Hi,friends!2 Lesson 1 "Do you have `a`?".
The students had to search the picture for letters of the alphabet that they recognised.

Everyone tried hard to find different words hidden in the picture.
"I see the word `GAME`!"

The students announced to the rest of the class what words they had found.
Some of the students wrote the words they found on the blackboard.

Other students spelled out the word they found for the teacher to write.
"Stop!"
"How do you spell `Stop`?"
"S-T-O-P."

Finally the students talked about what they had noticed. Some students noticed that sometimes the letter `a` looks different.
The teachers explained about the different ways to write the letter `a`.

Good job everyone!

This week 5th grade students continued doing listening activities in their morning activities. 6th grade students had Upper Grades Tomilish Time for the first time and used the time to make their name cards for English class.

5th grade students are studying We Can!1 Unit 1 `Hello, everyone` in English class. First, we did greetings as usual. Last year the students studied about telling the time so we always ask the question "What time is it?".
"It's 8.25am."

We did the activity `Let's Watch and Think 1`. The people in the video spoke very fast so the students didn't have to try and understand everything. They just had to try and pick out some words that they understood.
"What words could you hear?"
"Table tennis" "Yes, that's right!"
"Olympics" "Good job!"
"Medal" "Nice!"

The students listen very carefully to try and pick out the English words that they knew.
If we do this same activiy at the end of 5th grade they will understand what the people are saying much more. We're looking forward to that day!

6th grade students made their name cards that they will use in English class.
The teachers wrote a demonstration of how to place the letters. Lower case alphabet letters are a little difficult!

The students tried hard to write each letter carefully.
We will use these name cards all year so we want them to look nice.

The students also checked their friends writing and helped each other.
"That's great! It looks nice!"

Both 5th grade and 6th grade students had a productive start to the day! Good job everyone!

This week we started our English activites for the new school year. On Tuesday, we had our first Upper Grades Tomilish Time for this school year. 6th grade students had national tests so only 5th grade students participated in Tomilish Time.

We started Tomilish Time with our normal greetings.
"What day is it today? How is the weather today?"

After a short orientation explaining to students the goal of Tomilish Time, the students started their first English activity of the year. We did Let's Listen 2 from Hi,friends!1 Lesson 1.
The students listened to greetings from around the world and had to guess what country each greeting was from.

Some of the greetings were familar to the students but other greetings were harder for them.
"Hmmm...maybe Russia? Sweden? I don't know!"

Next, everyone checked their answers by watching the video from each country.
"What country is this?"
"It's China!"
"That's right!"

Lastly, the students took turns to practice the greetings from the different countries.
"Bonjour!"

Good job everyone. Let's enjoy Upper Grades Tomilish Time this year and do our best!