180206_雪と私。（第11回レポ）_Snow and Me (11th gardeN)

Japanese below (Let's read English first)

Hello,everyone!
I will share the 11th gardeN with you on this post!

We did two activities as warming up
・Turn around
・Make a Circle

Almost all got used to "Turn around" and they seemed less confused than before.
I have to change how to do it.. make it more difficult.


After those warming up, we did "Tell us your story with snow!"

Needless to say, but here Nishiwaga is one of the most famous areas for snow in Japan. So I believed they must have interesting stories of their own with snow and wanted to listen to. That's why I chose this theme.

It was totally broken by snow removal car.. /数時間後、除雪車の餌食に（笑）

"When I was an elementary school student, I made a snowgirl for my friend as his young sister because he had only brother."
"A few years ago, I fell from the top of a roof when I removed snow but snow on the ground was really soft, so I didn't injure myself."
"I was going to make a snow statue like a dog with my friend but it looked strange, so finally we made a snow statue like a turtle."
"It was fun for me to jump during skiing."
"For me, it was a picnic on a grassland covered with snow. It was good to eat hot noodle there. I'd like to continue this event as much as I can."

As I expected, there were lots of interesting stories.


Of course the stories were interesting but more than this, I got really happy because they tried hard to look up English phrases they used before from previous handouts by themselves. The stance that they positively try to get something by themselves. It is exactly the stance which we gardeN think important.


Next Monday is a holiday but members said "I want to come next week!", so we will hold gardeN with our pleasure! 12th of February, 1830-2000, at Yumoto community center! Why don't you join us??


Thanks!

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2月5日の第11回をお届け！


・Turn around
・Make a Circle (Line upの円verですっ！)

をウォーミングアップにやりました！
皆、Turn around にはだいぶ慣れてきて、複雑になっても徐々に困惑しなくなってきててびっくり。またやり方変えないとですね！！＾＾


その後、「雪にまつわるエピソードを教えて！」をメインの活動としてやりました。

なんたってココ西和賀は国指定の特別豪雪地帯。雪が半端ない。ココで暮らす人々はきっと雪にまつわるエピソードを持っているに違いない！ということでこのテーマにしました。

「小学生の時に男兄弟しかいない友達のために雪だるまの妹を作ってあげた！」
「雪下ろししてて屋根から落っこちたけど、地面の雪がふかふかでケガしなかった。」
「犬の雪像を造ろうとしたんだけど形が変になったから、亀にした！」
「スキー教室でジャンプ出来て楽しかった！」
「大雪原で雪上ピクニック。寒いとこでラーメン食べたり！これからもできる限り続けたいな。」

などなど案の定いろんなエピソードが。

内容もさることながら、
英語にする過程で「あ、この表現前にやったな！」って前のプリントを必死に見ている姿も印象的でした。まさに自分から何かを得ようとする姿。gardeNが大切にしたい姿です。


来週は祝日ですが、メンバーに訊いたら「やりたい！」とのことだったのでバリバリ開催します＾＾2月12日（月）1830-2000、湯本公民館2階です！ぜひ。



感想～Comment～
☆The theme was interesting for me. And I was glad because I got able to express my feeling in English more fluently than before!

☆今回のお題は楽しかったです。言いたい事をスラスラ書けるようになってきて嬉しい！

★It was fun because I could feel that my speaking skill has gradually improved!

★前より少し話せるようになってきたので、楽しくなってきた！

☆It was nice for me because this time I used some past tense words that I've never learned at school.

☆中学校でまだ習っていない過去形の単語を使って表現をすることができたのが良かったです。

文責：早川大輝/Daiki Hayakawa