“Let’s play in English!”2022 (October22,2022)
On October 22nd (Sat), we held an event for elementary school students, “Let’s play in
English!” at the small hall of Kusunoki Plaza. 18 elementary school students and their
sisters and brothers joined the event.
As a warm-up exercise, the participants sang easy English songs with our assistants
(Ms. Hiromi Tanaka, Ms. Naomi Tanaka, and Ms. Midori Tanaka.) After that, the
participants had a 50-minutes lesson with Mr. Jeremy from the United States. They
learned about feelings, alphabets, numbers, colors, weathers and some Halloween
words in English. They practiced how to say their age, favorite color, and favorite food in
English. We were surprised that the children joined very actively and had a lot of fun in
English.
After the lesson, the participants enjoyed working on Halloween crafts. With pipe
cleaners and a lollipop, they made a spider. It looked difficult wrapping the pipe
cleaners around the lollipop, but they made very pretty their own spider. Then, we went
Trick-or-Treating, which was a big fun. The participants said “Trick or Treat!” one by
one, and got candies and snacks from our well-costumed staffs. Some of our staffs wore
a very scary mask, but the children were courageous. Every child looked so happy with
a trick-or-treat bag full of candies and snacks.
This event was held for the first time in three years because of the covid-19, and we
were very glad to see the children having a lot of fun. We hope this event will be a good
opportunity for them to be interested in or understand English and foreign culture.
