Summer School Week 3

This was the last week of the 2012 Summer School program.  It was a great finish to our program this year.  The Students were able to focus on picture and sound this week.  First we made cameras that actually took photographs! Then we played with sound waves by making microphones and telephones.  Also just for fun from week two on the topic of fizz we made melon soda.  It was really tasty.  The students learned a lot about science while hearing and responding to English!! I look forward to next year!

Summer School Week 2

Week 2 of summer school was the same topic as week one but with younger students.  Even doing the same things produced many different results and we still had a great time!! We made volcanoes, did coke fountains, and coke bottle rockets. The goal of these experiments was to see what makes things fizz. Fizz is CO2 so we were able to make coke fountains and model volcanoes. These students really got into decorating their Volcanoes and made very interesting ones! For the pet bottle rockets you can see how strong air pressure was.  They flew much higher than the school!!

Summer School Week 1

This first week we had a great time!! We made volcanoes, did coke fountains, and coke bottle rockets.  The goal of these experiments was to see what makes things fizz.  Fizz is CO2 so we were able to make coke fountains and model volcanoes.  For the pet bottle rockets you can see how strong air pressure was.  The picture shows mist still in the bottle after it landed.  They flew much higher than the school!! My students were really impressed at what they could learn from Science in English!

2012 Adult BBQ

We had a great time at the first Adult BBQ here for 英会話TREE.  I cooked rib-eye steaks and we had many different wine snacks and two 3L bottles of wine.  One red and one white.  The food was great and the company was even better.  At the BBQ we played some English party games and everyone had a good time. Thanks to everyone who made time in their schedule to come and make the event a success.  I can't wait until the next event!!

Summer BBQ 2012 Lunch

7月１４日にサマーバーベキューを行いました。　
梅雨明けする前でしたので雨が心配でしたが、当日は晴れてとても暑く絶好のプール日和となりました。

お昼のバーべキューではマーク先生がハンバーガーを作りました。

クオーターパウンドのパテでボリューム満点！

プールで遊んだり水風船を使ったゲームなので盛り上がりました。

とても暑い日だったのでプールは常に満員状態！　みんな気持ちよさそうに遊んでいました。

Balloon Toss では水風船を保護者の方も参加していただき、風船がびっくりするような長距離を飛んでいました！！

たくさんの人に参加していただき楽しいバーベキューになりました！

来年もまたよろしくお願いします！

Belated School warming Gift

先日、マーク先生のお友達で千葉で英会話教室をやられているSandra先生とKenさんが遊びに来てくれました。　教室や教材、そしてイベントの写真など色々見ていただきました。　その際、素敵な観葉植物をお祝いとしていただきました！　新居に頂くお祝いは英語で"House warming gift"と言います。　なので、学校の場合はSchool warming gift ですね！　素敵なプレゼントありがとうございます！

Katori Jinja Festival

 

Yesterday we went to the festival with some students. It was a great time. We all dressed up and were able to see Shi-shi which were really interesting to watch and listen to all the music played by the local shrine people. It was really good fun. We saw many people there and we look forward to going again next year. This year was the first year my son's wore a Yukata. Before that we always wore Jimbei's. This year I also wore my geta sandals. I like them but they are hard to walk with on gravel. Hopefully next year we will see more of you all there.