ARIZONA FAMILY

九月　September

もう早くも九月です。今年も残すところあと３ヶ月。早いものです。子供達が、線路は続くよどこまでもの歌を英語で歌っているのをよく聞くので、歌のビデオをYoutubeで子供達一人ずつ見せました。日本語の歌詞つきです。It's already September!! Only 3 months left till 2012...Lately kids have been singing a kids song about railroad. I don't know the title of the song.There is Japanese version of the song, so I led them watch Youtube video of the song. 聖君は、初めて日本語で聴いたのにも関わらず、一生懸命日本語の歌詞を目で追いながら、日本語で歌っていました。Sey-He never heard of the song in Japanese, but he was reading Japanese subtitle and singing in Japanese.舞ちゃんは日本語の歌に合わせて(?)、英語で負けずに歌っていた。Maila-She tried to sing it in English with the Japanese song.この違い。。。二人らしい。それでも、舞ちゃんは日本語の補習校の宿題など、ひらがなはよく書けてます。字は聖君の同じ歳の時に書いた字に比べて上手です。絵も上手。やはり女の子は違いますね。色んな色を使っては、感性豊かです。聖君は、だんだん難しい本も読めるようになり、宿題である読書を毎日20分行っています。最初は嫌々でしたが、今となっては、本が面白いのではなく、多分読み終えるという満足感の為にスラスラ毎日楽しく読んでいます。本はとっても大事だと思います。色々な事を学べるし、いい時間の暇つぶしにもなりますもんね。私もインターネットをやめて、本に目を移さなければなりませんね。They have totally different personalities. Maila doesn't like to talk in Japanese, but she understand and write Hiragana characters pretty good. Comparing to Sey's writing when he was 5 years old, Maila's writing is better.Her drawing is good, too with using many different colors. She has good sense.Sey can read books which are little higher than his age level(?). He reads a book for 20 minutes everyday for his homework. I'm not sure that he like the book's content or he just like to accomplish something, but I'm glad that he reads everyday and likes to read.Reading is very important because I can learn from book, and it helps to kill time.I need to stop being in front of computer and use my eyes to read.