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Eikaiwa School Field Trips: Summer at the Zoo
Every year we organize some kind of optional summer event for our students. Past events have included ice skating (feels weird to put on sweaters and gloves in August!), outdoor games, playing in a...
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Elementary School English (MEXT announcement)
Some big news from MEXT this week (courtesy of Kensaku Yoshida on Facebook) Basically, from 2020 (estimated), 5-6 grade students will have English as a subject three times a week with specialist...
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Review: Oxford Junior Workbooks
An oldie but goodie The Oxford Junior Workbook series is a great homework resource for elementary school age children. There are ten workbooks in the series, from the introductory A and B, to the 1-8...
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Teaching alphabet stroke order and stroke count to Japanese children
Not as clear as it first seemed I’ve also been meaning to write this post for a while A couple of years ago it came to my attention that some of our students were being told by their elementary school...
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Young Children and STEP Eiken
Unprofessional and Irresponsible I’m going to be blunt here. I believe forcing young children to take the STEP Eiken test has a high chance of being pointless, counter-productive, and even...
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