ACET (Association of Children’s English Teachers)

Date and Place: Nov 15 (Ongaku-Shitsu), AMIKAS in Takamiya, 1.30pm to 3.30 pm
MC: Emi
Warm-Up Songs: Emi
Activities: Naho, Yoriko
Story Time: Miki

Any new presenters and ideas ALWAYS warmly welcomed…

Yes, November is…. The month before Christmas!

Will anyone be bringing their Christmas activity and game ideas?

See you on the 15th!

Many thanks to Miki for MCing this month’s meeting and providing the warm up song:

♪It’s Time To Go Trick-or-Treating (Tune: For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow)♪

After the introductions, Emi shared an article by Setsuko Toyama about English Education in Japanese elementary schools, Nigel shared his experiences making “skeleton” candies in Thailand, Yoko told us how to make witches make soup from diaper parts (hopefully not used!!),  we saw the “Grab All You Can Game”, and Grace told us about trick-or-treating in her neighborhood.

We did the “Dry Bone” song, where you divide the class into a few groups. You start off with a newspaper completely open, dance on it, and when music stops, fold a newspaper in half. .. continue until…

Miki will have a party at hers using two hundreds balloons… and the lucky students will get to pop them all!!!

Halloween song eliminator.  This is a musical chairs derivative. Students hold a scary item, and pass it round the circle.  When the verse ends, the person holding the item at that time is out.

Fumiyo’s activity was  “Halloween Colors” by Holiday JAZZ CHANTS. The aim is to learn Halloween vocabulary (four singular words, four plural words and four colors in the lyrics.) Ss are asked to listen and raise the appropriate flash cards. Nigel and Naho added their ideas: remember who has what and call them out; chant and pass a ball to next person in order (black cat > witches’ hat >…)

There was a conversation activity “Can you play —?” using “Eigo Notebook”. Ss hold hand sized picture cards. Sts walk around the classroom, do Janken and ask “Can you play —?” and find their partners (there are two matching cards within the classroom set). Richard, Miki and Nigel added their ideas and we actually did the “Shout Game”. Instead of  “walk and ask”, we “shout and listen” so Ss can have speaking lesson and listening lesson at once.

There was a Bean Throw game where a few Big white beans are put on a plate. The Halloween vocabulary is written on the one side of beans. Start with beans face down, shake the plate and count how many bean are face up.

Nigel showed a speaking drill, the aim being to learn “and” and “classroom English” using NOVA’s Halloween and Clothes cards (hand size). Arrange twelve cards as a clock face. T or “IT” decide the position of twelve o’clock and call out the time “eight o’clock!” Ss will say “Look there is a pumpkin and ghost.” The S who shouts the whole sentence is the winner. Nigel then changed some cards to clothes and did it again. This time Ss were

October 2009 meeting at AMIKAS, Takamiya

asked to shout “A witch is wearing a coat.”

We did Genki English’s ♪Trick-or-treat Monster Halloween♪ song.

Grace showed a few of her favourite stories; “Skeleton Hiccups”, “Where the Wild Things Are”, “Gallop”, “Swing”.

Many thanks to the kind note taker who provided me with these excellent and detailed notes so very promptly!!!!!!!

Due to AMIKAS being fully booked on the next 2nd Sunday (October 11th, 2009), we have decided to have a morning ACET meeting on:

MONDAY 12th October, from 10am to 12pm.

Maybe there will be a social lunch after? It is a public holiday after all!!!

Wishing you well until then!!