Update on life
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frellnikOn Friday I taught grade 5 at Izumi. I taught a class that I had already taught a month ago at Izumi North, so I had no preparations to make. I also taught the Special Ed kids in the izumi class. I really like teaching those kids!!
I wore my padraid slippers to school that day instead of my white indoor shoes. So when the izumi class kids came to get me and bring me to class, they commented on my slippers before taking my hands in theirs and leading me to class. I love how tactile those kids are (hand holding, high fives, and even hugs sometimes). Well at one point, one of the kids litterally pulled my slipper off so he could try it on himself, which led to half the kids lighing up to try on my slippers! I let them. That started a conversatin about how big my feet are :)
After that I read them a story, " Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" and we sang some songs to end the class.
That night, Kiyoko called me to tell me that Yokubenimaru was having a sale and everything was on sale. So she picked up me and Sayaka and we went grocery shopping and I picked up a few other necessities. She promised to call me whenever she hears of a sale day.
On Saturday I went to the Izumi School Recital! Each grade had a 20 minutes performance. The grade 6s had a 35 minutes performance. It started at 8:30am and finished at 11:40am. It was amazing! All the kids and teachers worked really hard for this and it turned out wonderfully!! The gym was FULL of spectators!
I got pictures of each performance and a few videos too of the kids singing and playing their intstruments! For a bunch of elementry school kids they are really good! I'm really glad I got to go!
The grade 1s told the story of these little woodland creatures who protect this treasure. But they don't know what's in the treasure chest. The birds of the forrest want the treasure for themselves and they fight over it. Then when I fire breaks out in the forest they must work together to put the fires out and in the end the lock on the box is broken and they look inside to find the words NAKAYOKU which means to get along. That is the treasure they must protect. Friendship.
The grade 5s were up next and they did dance and taiko and stuff. They were all really good too!
Next up was the grade 2s with their rendition of Peter pan!! They were so cute! Also very clueless about real native Americans...so it was almost offensive...but they really don't know any better here. And have I mentioned cute?
Next up were the grade 4s!! The grade 4s are an amazing group of percussionists, xilophone players, accordian players, recorder players, and these little nifty instruments that you have to blow into to get sounds but that you play like a keyboard....sideways! lol I've never seen them before i came here.
The grade 3s did a comedy stint and played music by hitting bamboo! It was really good!
The grade 6s were last and they did a piece about war. They told three stories of war and how it impacted families. A lot of it was too dark to get good photos of but i have a cast shot from the end. It was really good. Reminded me of Rememberance Day Ceremonies back in high school.
It was an awesome performance!! I am really proud of all of them!! All the kids at Izumi have today off because they had to go to school on Saturday. I unfortunately wasn't at Izumi today so I had to go to work. Izumi North has their recital next Saturday and I'm looking forward to it!!
Sunday I slept a lot!! I called a few people in the morning after being woken up at 6:00am by what I thought were drums but were actually fireworks. I didn't realize it but, Izumi had a festival going on all weeknd just on the other side of the train station. Ithought it was next week so I missed it. lol Although, that definitely explains all the fire works throughout the weekend! lol I had a nice relaxing weekend where I read, slept and talked to friends while preparing for this weeks lesson on Halloween!
Today I taught my lesson on Halloween to the grade 4s at Izumi North. I got a simple version of the history of Halloween and Jack-O'-Lanterns and a whole tone of pictures together and made a cd of halloween music. After my explanation and pictures I had made for them while they listened to the halloween cd.
All the classes seemed to really emnjoy the class. I'm happy for that because I'm using the same lesson all week. Tomorrow my classes have been cancelled so I have nothing to do until lunch and then I have to go to Taira for a meeting at the BOE. After that I am going to Kojima to buy a DVD player because I have heard from other ALTs that our points have come in. I get $200 worth of points that I will use to buy my DVD player! I can't wait!!!!
Momoth post from hell is finished!!!! thank god.
I wore my padraid slippers to school that day instead of my white indoor shoes. So when the izumi class kids came to get me and bring me to class, they commented on my slippers before taking my hands in theirs and leading me to class. I love how tactile those kids are (hand holding, high fives, and even hugs sometimes). Well at one point, one of the kids litterally pulled my slipper off so he could try it on himself, which led to half the kids lighing up to try on my slippers! I let them. That started a conversatin about how big my feet are :)
After that I read them a story, " Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" and we sang some songs to end the class.
That night, Kiyoko called me to tell me that Yokubenimaru was having a sale and everything was on sale. So she picked up me and Sayaka and we went grocery shopping and I picked up a few other necessities. She promised to call me whenever she hears of a sale day.
On Saturday I went to the Izumi School Recital! Each grade had a 20 minutes performance. The grade 6s had a 35 minutes performance. It started at 8:30am and finished at 11:40am. It was amazing! All the kids and teachers worked really hard for this and it turned out wonderfully!! The gym was FULL of spectators!
I got pictures of each performance and a few videos too of the kids singing and playing their intstruments! For a bunch of elementry school kids they are really good! I'm really glad I got to go!
The grade 1s told the story of these little woodland creatures who protect this treasure. But they don't know what's in the treasure chest. The birds of the forrest want the treasure for themselves and they fight over it. Then when I fire breaks out in the forest they must work together to put the fires out and in the end the lock on the box is broken and they look inside to find the words NAKAYOKU which means to get along. That is the treasure they must protect. Friendship.
The grade 5s were up next and they did dance and taiko and stuff. They were all really good too!
Next up was the grade 2s with their rendition of Peter pan!! They were so cute! Also very clueless about real native Americans...so it was almost offensive...but they really don't know any better here. And have I mentioned cute?
Next up were the grade 4s!! The grade 4s are an amazing group of percussionists, xilophone players, accordian players, recorder players, and these little nifty instruments that you have to blow into to get sounds but that you play like a keyboard....sideways! lol I've never seen them before i came here.
The grade 3s did a comedy stint and played music by hitting bamboo! It was really good!
The grade 6s were last and they did a piece about war. They told three stories of war and how it impacted families. A lot of it was too dark to get good photos of but i have a cast shot from the end. It was really good. Reminded me of Rememberance Day Ceremonies back in high school.
It was an awesome performance!! I am really proud of all of them!! All the kids at Izumi have today off because they had to go to school on Saturday. I unfortunately wasn't at Izumi today so I had to go to work. Izumi North has their recital next Saturday and I'm looking forward to it!!
Sunday I slept a lot!! I called a few people in the morning after being woken up at 6:00am by what I thought were drums but were actually fireworks. I didn't realize it but, Izumi had a festival going on all weeknd just on the other side of the train station. Ithought it was next week so I missed it. lol Although, that definitely explains all the fire works throughout the weekend! lol I had a nice relaxing weekend where I read, slept and talked to friends while preparing for this weeks lesson on Halloween!
Today I taught my lesson on Halloween to the grade 4s at Izumi North. I got a simple version of the history of Halloween and Jack-O'-Lanterns and a whole tone of pictures together and made a cd of halloween music. After my explanation and pictures I had made for them while they listened to the halloween cd.
All the classes seemed to really emnjoy the class. I'm happy for that because I'm using the same lesson all week. Tomorrow my classes have been cancelled so I have nothing to do until lunch and then I have to go to Taira for a meeting at the BOE. After that I am going to Kojima to buy a DVD player because I have heard from other ALTs that our points have come in. I get $200 worth of points that I will use to buy my DVD player! I can't wait!!!!
Momoth post from hell is finished!!!! thank god.
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Date: 2010-10-18 08:48 am (UTC)sounds like you're having fun!
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Date: 2010-10-18 10:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-18 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-18 10:24 pm (UTC)Have a great time hun!!!
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