Yesterday’s News with Kids Years ago when I started teaching kids English in Ikoma, I needed to learn the curriculum. I started with a good textbook. But I had lots of ideas. I wanted kids to learn through play. Not just playing games to memorize structures, but ‘play’ so there is a story and it […]
Smith’s School of English Miyakojima – BBQ Party 2022
Hello everyone, I hope you are all enjoying this lovely autumn weather! My last blog was the first in a grammar series focused on Future Tense and the correct use of “will”. I will continue discussing future tense in my next blog. But this time, I would like to discuss something light and fun. Bar-be-que! […]
Halloween in Japan
October is my favorite month in Japan. The weather is perfect, and the leaves start to change colour and fall. There is a national holiday called Sports Day, in which communities come together to enjoy exercising together. And at the end of the month is my all-time favorite mini-holiday: Halloween! In Japan, as in North […]
