The Eigo Note Textbook 2 begins with an intro into brushing up on the alphabet and how to pronounce their names.

The Grade 6 Eigo Notebook starts out with a simple but interesting alphabet search using a big picture of a town with various objects, stores, and people. The main point is...

For this second Eigo Note lesson we began with a review of the alphabet and the alphabet song.

I've actually heard rumors from other assistants like me that some HRT’s had opted not to sing the song at all. I have to wonder why when the alphabet song is like the flagship of all English songs if not the most popular and known...

As a post activity to the song, we did another alphabet pairing activity just to “keep the kids on their toes.”

There are maximum 40 kids in a Japanese elementary school classroom so that makes for 20 pairs, but there are 26 pairs in the pairing game, so it can get pretty competitive to make a second pair with those 12 (6x2) extra cards...

This next Eigo Note unit's theme relates to noticing different letters of the world, their similarities and differences.

It also works on studying English numbers from 1 to 100. Moreover, it reviews the small and big letters of the alphabet. (In the textbook, these Units as I call them are actually called Lessons, 1, 2, 3, and so on...

This next Eigo Note lesson still relates to the study of numbers 1 -100.

I wanted to start this lesson with a little review so after singing the number song twice we spent a few minutes on reviewing the numbers posted on the board last week. We did this by first going through the numbers 1-20 handout given last week...

I wanted to start this lesson with a little excitement since we were going to review the number song again.

After reviewing the numbers by ten's on the board, we sang the numbers song once and then did something very different from the 英語ノート Teacher's Book. Here is what I mean...

Get the students interested in alphabet displays (signs) and transcribing (writing) them down.

As usual we started with our morning greeting and after reviewing the alphabet and numbers by ten's with the chanting songs on the CD we went directly into a review of the alphabet transcribing activity on page 14 in Book 2...

The kids were still quite hot since the weather will start getting warmer and warmer in Japan.

Also, the rainy season is coming soon but for now it is the swimming season in Japanese Elementary schools. Our Grade 6 classes had "pool" (swimming) today for their 1st and 2nd periods so that always leaves them tired...

Today was a rainy day and 'pool' (swimming class) was cancelled so we did our classes on the regular schedule for the day.

After our customary greetings to start the class was done we skipped the review of the numbers, in 10's, since the kids had seemed to be satisfied with their memory of it...

Today was very different from last week and 'pool' (swimming class) was not cancelled so we did our classes after pool.

The students seemed to be fine but were a little dull for the intro and review practice. Review was done on the 12 months and the ordinals only since it was a little hot and muggy ...

We got into the lesson after a short greeting and a little warm-up by singing the "Calendar Song." By this time the kids didn't seem to mind that we sang it accapela since they were already used to years of singing other songs accapela or karaoke style.

It's nice having a group of kids so flexible...