The last couple of weeks, its been raining alot and so hot and sticky at school.
Today was sunny so we decided to go to the beach in bentenjima. How refreshing to have lunch by the big blue Sea. We found some shells with crabs inside, they are called Hermit Crabs. It was so funny to watch these wallking shells.

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A Sunny Friday, What a great time for cool watermelon, and a day out at Hamamatsu Garden park.
Did you know that turtles love watermelon? I didnt either.. I think Lea and Noa bounced and jumped on the Jungle gym net for over an hour, Everbody enjoyed the slide too, its so fast.

天気のいい金曜日、みずみずしいすいかを食べ、浜松ガーデンパークへ出掛け楽しい一日を過ごしました。
カメがすいかが大好きだって知っていましたか？僕は知らなかった…
レアとノアはジャングルジムのネットで飛び跳ねること一時間以上、みんな滑り台も楽しんでいました。とても速い滑り台だったね。

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It has started to get much warmer over the last few weeks, So today we decided to play in the pool, for some of the children this was their first experience to be with so much water other than bath time at home. As you already know at Real a great deal of our time in the summer is spent playing in water, so today was a very important day for the the rookie kids… Splish Splash, under the hot sun, what a great time.

ここ数週間でだいぶ暖かくなってきたので、今日はプレイグランドのプールで遊ぶことにしました。
おうちのお風呂よりたくさんの水の中は初めての子も数人いたようです。
既にご存知の通り、リアルでは夏になると水の中で遊ぶことが日常的になります。
だから、今日はプール初体験の子たちにはとても大切な第一歩となりました。パシャ、パシャ、熱い太陽の下、素晴らしい！

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Today was such a lovely sunny day, We decided to go to the beach to play in the sand, and to watch the wonderful blue Ocean. The water was actually quite warm and it was lovely to paddle in the shorebareak, We all enjoyed finding crabs, shells and urchins and all kinds of sealife that were left behind in the rock pools. Kadoya has so many big rocks that were fun to climb up and jump into the sand. Sometimes its easy to forget the beauty that surrounds us, especially living here we are so lucky with the nature thats surrounds us. I really recommend to anyone that hasn`t been to the beach in a while to go and have a visit. its so beautiful and very near to us too.

今日はとってもイイ天気なので海岸へ行くことにしました。砂浜で遊び、真っ青な素晴らしい海を見てきました。海水は結構温かくて波際での水遊びには最高でした。みんな岩と岩の隙間の水たまりにカニや貝殻、などの海の生き物を見つけては興奮していました。 かどやには大きな岩がたくさんあり、登ったり砂浜めがけてジャンプしたり、おもしろいです。住んでいるとつい忘れてしまいがちですが、こんなに美しい自然が私たちのすぐ近くにあるなんてすごく幸運なことですよね。しばらく海岸に行っていない人にはぜひ、行ってみることをお勧めします。本当に美しい、そして近い！

Today the “5 year old” team Lea, Noa and Shin did their studying in front of the camera just like a TV show. I was very impressed by how confidentally the 3 of them performed considering they had the extra pressure of the Video Camera pointing at them.
This is just a little glimpse of what they do at preschool, and of course speaking freely (conversation) in English is easy for them but at 5 years old their English Reading is Superb.

今日は5歳っ子チームのレア、ノア、シンがカメラの前でいつもやっていることをお見せします。テレビ番組みたい!?ビデオカメラが向けられているプレッシャーの中、自信を持ってしっかりやってのけた３人に私はとても関心しました。
これは普段のプリスクールのほんのひとこまです。もちろん英語で自由におしゃべりする方が彼らには楽ですが、５歳でこれだけの英語が読めるってすごくないですか!?

Gorilla Park

Today we went to “Gorilla Park” in Tahara, for lunch. Its was such a warm day and so much fun to play on the big gorilla slide. Shin, Lea, Noa And Rina, enjoyed jumping over the rocks in the pond, which actually ended up in all of them getting their feet wet at some point. but thats sometimes the price of fun and its still well worth taking up the challenge. Anyway, on warm days like today we can dry our shoes so quickly, right????

今日は田原市にある゛ゴリラパーク″（滝頭公園）でお弁当を食べました。とっても暖かい一日でランチ後は大きなゴリラ滑り台で楽しく遊びました。シンとノア、レア、リナは池の岩と岩を飛び渡り楽しんでいました。結局みんなが足を濡らしていつも終わるのですが、それって楽しいことをする代償を払うってことが時にはあるし、何かに挑戦するということの方がはるかに価値があると思います。それに、今日みたいに暖かい日は濡れたシューズなんてあっという間に乾いちゃうよね？？

Noa and Lea’s Wordlists are so beautifully Written.

Don’t forget they are both only 5 years old…..
NoaとLeaきれいに書きましたね、まだ5歳ですよ。

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新ユニフォーム
ユニフォームが新しくなりました。スーパーマンみたい?!　
☆Ｔシャツ　一枚／2,625円（税込）　サイズ／100～160

This is our 2010 Graduation Ceremony, We are very sad to no longer be able see you guys everyday, but we hope your having a great time at your new schools and are making lots of new friends. I can’t wait to see you guys on friday for “Real Family”, Lets have lots of fun together, and chat loads in English.

2010年卒園式の様子をご覧ください。“私たちはみんなと今までのように毎日会えなくなるのがすごくさみしいです。でも、みんなが新しい学校で楽しく過ごせるように、たくさん新しい友達ができるように祈ってます。金曜日のリアルファミリーでみんなに会えるのが待ちどおしいです。おもしろいことたくさんしよう！英語でいっぱいしゃべろう！”

Here are some pictures of our time at Happy Valley after the ceremony:
卒園式の後、ハッピーバレーでのランチ。写真はこちらから⇒

7月の　リアル　スペリング　コンテスト！

Real Spelling Contest. Designed to test the spelling capabilities of students. There will be great prizes for the Winners and certificates for all runners up. We will also accept entries from non-real members.
The Spelling Bee will be split into 2 divisions :

今夏（7月頃）リアルスペリングコンテスト‘スペリングビー’
参加者が英単語のスペルを言い当て競います。勝者にはイイもの！を、参加者全員に参加状を用意します。
リアルメンバーでなくても大歓迎！お気軽にお問い合わせください。
リアルスペリングコンテスト‘スペリングビー’は年齢で二つのレベルに分かれます。

Level1: 4才～3年生
Level 2: 4年生～6年生

このワードリストから出題されます。クリックしてご覧ください⇒Real Word List

Click here for wordlist: Real Word List

誰でも練習して参加できます！

Children will be asked to spell out loud in front of an audience and 3 Judges words from their list, it will be held in a tournament style. for example:
Judge: “How do you spell? Cat”
Student: “C.A.T. Cat”　　　　　　　　　　　　　
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Challenging activities are a necessary component that aid in youth development. Challenging means that participants stretch beyond their current range of knowledge and skills and have opportunities to test and master their skills in the real world. Activities that tap into young people’s natural curiosity and interest in discovery will motivate, rather than discourage, their eagerness to learn physical, intellectual, psychological, emotional and social skills.

“Real” kids speak and read english very well, its real…
They follow intense training, using group pressure to function individually and also as a team keeping a high tempo and keeping it fun, this was some of todays training..

This video is a good example of the kind of pressure we put on our students on a day to day basis, as you can see our students love this pressure and are very hungry to learn, we believe they are within the elite for their age group (2-6year olds) for speaking english as a second language in Japan.

Shuhei and Shin have been working hard the last few months, and their efforts have paid off greatly..

Little Real Preschool.
We are introducing a NEW weekly running program into our school as of this month. We will run the full course around Banba Park every Tuesday as of this month, the circumference of Banba Park is 3.3km. We believe this will be a great challenge for our students both mentally and physically.

This week we went to Shinshiro River. Shinshiro is a very beautiful place the air is cleaner than Toyohashi, and running around in the warm sunshine was very fun. We tried to cross a shallow part of the river, there were many rocks to try to hop across, although the girls carefully managed to keep their feet fairly dry. The boys rushed across and all got wet.
After lunch we made a fire to dry our clothes. This was a good chance to explain about fire safety, and explain reasons why we say “dont play with matches or lighters”. After we had finished with the fire we made she it was properly extinguished.

I often feel sad at the change of seasons because it reminds me that life is passing by, we are all growing older and changing which unfortunately in life means moving on too.. 2 more seasons (half a year) and Ayumu, Nina, Shuhei and Saya
will be moving on to elementary school. Of course Im happy to see them grow and progress through life, but at the same time..
I know I will be very sad not to see them everyday. Feeling autumn`s cool wind in the air and smelling the Osmanthus(金木犀) means one thing for me and that is that we need to have fun, more fun the the last 2 seasons and fit in as many special memories as we can in the short time that we have left together..