*****Baby to Toddler***** 毎日、英語の歌を歌ったり話しかけ。日本語よりも英語優位の頃。
*****4 years old****** 友人にプライベートで週に一度レッスンをしてもらう。 家庭では、英語で。 幼稚園では日本語での生活。
*****5 years old***** プライベートレッスンは主に作文に。読みもかなりできるようになる。 家庭では、English Timeとして毎日30分ほどの会話の時間を持つ。 そのほかは、母国語強化のため日本語に。 アメリカ人のミッショナリーが行っているRanger Kidsという男の子のための活動に週1回90分参加。(共通言語英語)
児童英検Silver合格。
*****6 years old***** 幼稚園卒園直前にGUAMに短期留学。誕生日の都合で、現地の小学1年生のクラスを経験。(St.John School in GUAM, USA)
小学1年に入学を機に、プライベートレッスンは友人の子供が学校(インターナショナルスクール)で使っているものと同じものを使って文法や作文をする。そのほか毎週Spelling testと Book reportと作文。
児童英検Gold合格。
その頃書いた作文(原文) I wanna go to the camp with Gonzalez Pastor and my friends. I hope I will go there again. I want to play in the park. I will have fun.
*****7 years old***** レッスン内容は前年と同じ。4月にはGrade 2ndの教材へ。 自宅においては、Scholasticの"100 wards for 2nd grade"と"100 math for 2nd grade"を平行しながら。 お気に入りの作家は、Arnold Lobel。 作文がある程度書けるようになったので"Ken-kun's Jurnal"をオープンさせる。http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/ken1997 参照 Ranger Kidsつながりで、バイリンガルチャーチにも親子で毎週日曜日参加。 英語劇や歌の発表を経験。
英検5級・4級合格
その頃書いたBook report (原文) Title: Spring Auther: Arnold Lobel Story about: Frog went to Toad's house. But Toad did not wake up. Frog went to inside and looked at the sky. But Toad couldn't wake up. So Frog brought a calender, and he said "It is May, Toad!!" Toad woke up and went walking.
*****8 years old***** 英語教育は昨年同様の内容。 お気に入りの作家はRobert MunschやArnold Lobel。 PokemonやNarniaなどは、ChapterBookも読めるようになる。
英検3級合格
その頃書いた作文(原文) by Ken-kun's Jurnal "Digging Fossils" On August fifth, I went to 120,000,000,000 years ago on the time machine trip. I was going to digging fossils. There was lots of mountains and the rock wall have a fossil of dinosar's footprints. It likes climbing up a mountain. But I thought the dinosars couldn't climb up a mauntain. First, the leader told us "120,000,000,000 years ago, here was a sea. But now here was only lots of mauntains and no sea." I was unbelievable. Next the leader told us about fossiles of dinosar's footprints. That fossil is on the rock wall now, but 120,000,000,000,000 years ago here was a ground. Then hundreds years ago, this ground was getting change and now it become to wall. I thought it was time machine trip. Last, leader gave us some hummers. And he said "find a black rock like this, and breake the rock and it has lines,can you see? If you will find fossiles, let me see." I was getting exciting. I thought I want to find fossils. I started digging, there was lots of rocks. But which one is a fossil in . I didn't know. Finally, I found black rocks but it was no fossil. That too bad. I thought I should change a place. There was a lot of black rocks. I broke a rock with my hummer. Then I saw a something brightning. I showed leader it. It was a plant fossil I was so happy. Next, I saw a rock with 3 lines. I showed it leader. It was shell fossils. This mountain was really sea long time ago. The time was very fast !! It was veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery fun time machine trip. I thought I want to study more and more about fossils and dinosars.