Special Guests: Ms. Emily's Family!

Last week we had some very special guests come to our school.
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Our ALT is Ms.Emily MacFarlane. Her family came to visit her!
They went skiing in Yamagata, Zao for four days. After that, they came to visit out school.

First, they took part in our weekly English morning activity, Tomilish Time. We broadcast an interview with Ms. Emily's parents to the whole school.
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The two students tried hard to speak clearly. Ms. Emily's parents said they were very impressed with both of them. Her parents talked about Ms.Emily when she was an elementary school student. Everyone was very surprised that she used to be shy!

Next, they visited many of the classes.
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The students had many questions for them.
How long does it take to get to Sendai from Scotland?
What time is it in Scotland now?

The students tried to use the English they have learnt, for example 2nd grade students asked "Do you like~?" questions.
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They enjoyed answering many different questions.
Do you like yogurt? Yes, I do!

Ms.Emily's father was very popular with the students.
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Yeay!
The students were very happy that their English could be understood.

Next, Ms.Emily's parents took part in two 5th grade English classes. They became special guest teachers!
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The students tried very hard to listen to their pronunciation.

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It was great to practice with 3 native speakers!

Also, we did an interview activity. Ms. Emily is used to the Japanese accent but her parents are not so the students had to do their best to speak as clearly as possible.
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After English class, they went to class 5-3 to have lunch.
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They really enjoyed eating in a classroom. They said that it felt like a family atmosphere. The students did their best to explain about the different foods and were very welcoming.

Everyone had a great time!
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Thank you for coming to visit!
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English in our school play

Last Tuesday and Saturday we performed our school play (学芸会). On Tuesday we performed for the other students and on Saturday our families came to watch. Each grade did a different performance. This year the audience noticed something different. There was a lot of English!

In the opening address(開式の言葉) students from each year introduced their performances.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Tomizawa Elementary School!

The students used English that we have been learning in class to tell the audience what to do: Let's watch! Let's Listen!

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The students also praised the other introductions: Sounds good! How wonderful! Enjoy the show!

Another performance with a lot of English was the 5th graders' skit.

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They perfomed Snow White.

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The stage was split into two and they performed in Japanese and English at the same time so everyone could understand the story.

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It as a great performance. Everyone laughed a lot! The mirrors were very funny!

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At the end of the performance they sang `We are the World` in English!
It was beautiful!

Well done to everyone who performed!
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Happy Halloween!

Did you enjoy Halloween? At Tomizawa Elementary School, we had a lot of fun! Some 6th grade and 4th grade students had English class and all the teachers dressed up. Everyone smiled a lot when they saw the teachers' costumes.

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Can you tell what characters the teachers are?

Ms. Emily was Pikachu and she stayed like that all day! We called her Pikachu-Sensei!

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Pikachu-Sensei was very popular!


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