fish!

We have been doing a fish theme and we made some great fish pictures:

The kinder class used their knowledge of shapes and colours to ask for the pieces of paper they wanted and made these posters.

Then we chose an emotion for each fish and drew faces.  Surprised and happy fish were the most popular by a long shot!

In the grade 2-3 class we read the book 'Hooray for fish!' which has lots of unusual fish like peacock fish and strawberry and pineapple fish and then invented our own fish and wrote a sentence describing them:

Definitely something fishy going on around here!

2013 English Summer Day Camp

まだまだ暑い日が続いていますが、皆さんいかがお過ごしですか？
今年もいいお天気に恵まれ、無事にサマーデイキャンプを行うことができました。
参加していただいた皆さん、ありがとうございました。
また来年お待ちしています！
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気に入ったお写真もダウンロードできます。
 
REES 2013 Summer Day Camp

Hope to see you all next year!

イングリッシュサマーデイキャンプ

第4回イングリッシュサマーデイキャンプ

今年も開催します！
日時：8月７日（水）、8日（木） 、9日（金）
時間：10時～3時
場所：梓水苑（松本市梓川）
参加費：3日間参加　　12,000円
　　　　　 2日間参加　　8,500円
　　　　　1日参加　 　　4,500円
対象：小学生

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one last Valentine's Day post

Last one.

I promise!!

I-chan made these chocolates all by herself.

And brought them to class for Heather-sensei.

And even remembered

"Happy Valentine's Day!" 

when she handed them over.

Thank you I-chan.

Happy Valentine's Day to you too!

more Valentine's!

Did you know that in Western countries Valentine's is a time for men to treat the women they love with gifts?  Red roses, chocolates, dinner at a romantic restaurant, even jewellery are all popular Valentine's Day gifts.

Our kinder class kids can't afford jewellery or red roses just yet but they shopped at Heather-sensei's sticker shop to make these romantic cards for their mums.

'Three red stickers please.'

Thank you.

'Five more green stickers please.'

Thank you.

'One big white heart sticker please.'

Thank you.

Phew.... you don't need any money at this shop but you sure get tired using all that English!

All the mummies were surprised and very pleased with their Valentine's Day gifts though and that made it all worth the effort!

the longest train ever!

While we were waiting for class to start we made a big castle with all the circle blocks.  Then we decided that we needed some way to get to the castle so we started making a train.

We counted the blocks until we lost count then we made sections of all one colour or shape (we have square blocks and rectangular blocks.)

When we finished making our train we tried to push it:  

'Push, push, push-

oh no!'

Our train was too long and it broke.

Lucky we took a picture before we got started, hey?

Happy Valentine's Day

The kinder kids in Toyoshina have been learning about Valentine's Day.

We sorted hearts by size and colour.

We chose the hearts we liked and counted them.

We asked for more and swapped any we didn't need.

And then we made pictures with our hearts.

Phewwww- that was a lot of work for one lesson but we had some great pictures to show our mums and dads!

We really did have fun but we're a bit shy in front of the camera.