3月の雪

昨日は朝から雪が降っていてびっくりしましたね。
夕方には溶けてしまいましたが、先週は春の陽気だっただけに、なお更寒く感じました。
まだインフルエンザや風邪が流行っているようです。
激しい気温の変化に体もびっくりしていますよね。
皆さんも体調には気をつけてください。
春が待ち遠しいですね。

Cooking with kids

March's Cooking in English theme is cooking with kids.

Perfect as the March cooking class is March 18th- during the school holidays.

So, come along with your kid(s) and have some fun, learn some English, and make something yummy.

The menu is fish pie and a surprising spinach salad.

Why is it surprising? You'll just have to come along and find out!

March Cooking in English

Place: Tagawa Community Centre

Date: March 18th (Friday)

Time: 10am- 12:00pm

Bring: Aprons and a container to take your cooking home in.

Bookings: Call Kanae on (0263) 34-9127

Hope to see you there!

We love English!

Today in the 7 year old class we were going to spend 10 minutes writing a Valentines Day Card to our mum or dad.

We are studying phonics so we know how to write Mum, Dad, From and of course our names but Love and Dear are still a bit tricky for some of us.

But the activity turned out to be very popular. Very popular indeed. Some of us couldn't decide who to write to so we wanted to write two cards.

But what about our big brother?

Little sister?

Grandma and Grandpa?

We ended up writing lots and lots of cards!

The person who wrote the most cards wrote six Valentines Day cards! That's a lot of love!

Here we are in action:

And here's one of the finished cards:

Happy Valentines Day to you all!

look what we made!

Today in the pre-kinder class at Azusagawa we made something pretty incredible. Sickness meant only N could come to class today but that didn't mean we couldn't still have fun!

N wanted to play with the blocks. So, while we talked about colours and shapes and counted how many blocks we used we made this:



See the semi-circles and upside down triangles in there? It was a pretty tricky tower so I stopped to take a picture.

But it got even bigger!




When it finally fell down we only had six blocks left to use and N could name triangles, circles and squares without prompting.

Go N!

And let's hope the rest of the class feel better for next week's lesson!

this month's cooking class

This month's Cooking in English class theme is a creamy potato and ham soup that's just perfect for breakfast on a cold winter's morning. Or lunch. Or dinner. Or all three- it's that good!

And we're following that with a gooey chocolate brownie. Very delicious. Too delicious if you're trying to watch your diet!

Come along for some fun, some food and some friendly English conversation!

Year of the rabbit

This year is year of the rabbit.

Here are a coupe of English expressions to do with rabbits for you:

Eat like a rabbit

Have you ever seen a rabbit eat? They take very little bites. Nibbling and nibbling away at their food. Someone who eats like a rabbit is someone who takes a long time to eat a small amount of food. Do you know someone who eats like a rabbit?

Like a rabbit in the headlights

I don't think I've ever seen a wild rabbit in Japan. Do we have them here? In Australia we have lots of wild rabbits. They come out at dusk. When you're driving along at dusk rabbits get scared of the lights and run. Sometimes they run into the bush. Sometimes they panic and run the wrong way and run into the road. If they stop to look at your car they freeze. They get stunned by the bright lights and can't move. Someone who is like a rabbit in the headlights is someone who is stunned into silence. Especially by sudden and unexpected news. Have you ever been caught like a rabbit in the headlights?

Rabbit food

A derogatory term for raw vegetables and/ or salad served as a meal. My father doesn't like rabbit food for dinner, how about you?

Pull a rabbit out of a hat

Have you ever seen a magic show where the magician shows everyone a completely empty hat and then waves his wand and walah! a cute white rabbit hops out of the very same hat. Magic! Someone who pulls a rabbit out of a hat is someone who manages something you think is impossible. A goal in soccer when it looked like the defence had the ball, an idea in a business meeting when the situation looked hopeless, making a delicious dinner from what's in the fridge when you realise you haven't prepared anything and the shops are closed. What situation have you been in when you pulled a rabbit out of a hat?

Enjoy the year of the rabbit and try out a rabbit expression for good measure!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all of you from all of us at Richard's Easy English Schools.

Hoping it's a happy, healthy and harmonious one for us all.