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Mihara Elementary School attached to Hiroshima University: Mihara
City, Hiroshima
Wahl-Coates Elementary School: Greenville, North Carolina, USA |
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Using letters, e-mails, and videoletters, pupils at both schools
exchange information about their own schools and classes, as
well as their own countryfs life styles and cultures. |
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Letfs
learn about 1st graders at Wahl-Coates Elementary School. |
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Objectives of the activity
By learning how students at their age are leading
their life at elementary school, we want our students
to know that there are children who have a similar
life as theirs in a distant foreign country. At
the same time, we want our students to get interested
in Wahl-Coates ES. |
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Steps of the activity
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What are 1st graders doing
at Wahl-Coates Elementary School? |
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Students look up in
a map where the state of North Carolina
is, and exchange what they know about
elementary schools in America. |
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Students watch a videotape
about 1st gradersf school life at Wahl-Coates
ES recorded when a teacher visited the
classroom. (School announcement, special
class(P.E), morning meeting, math, snack,
working with words, lunch, and so on) |
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Students exchange
opinions about contents of the videotape.
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Why can they
eat snacks during break time? |
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Why do they
enter classrooms with their shoes
on? |
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Why do they
line up when they move from one
classroom to another or when they
enter classrooms after playing
outside? |
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Classrooms are
pretty and clean. |
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I thought that
figures were also written in English,
but I was surprised to find out
that they were the same as ours
in Japan |
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| A |
Letfs introduce attached
Mihara Elementary School. |
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Students discuss what
part of their school life they want
to introduce.
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Scenes in which
students are commuting to school
by themselves in school uniform. |
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Scenes in which
students are setting the table
for school lunch, and the menu
of the lunch. |
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Telling folklores. |
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Members in the
class. |
And so on |
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They add a message
to the photos of the selected scenes
and mail them to Wahl-Coates ES. |
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Outcomes and issues for the future
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As they saw pupils at their
age and teachers on the videotape, our students
felt close to Wahl-Coates ES. |
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Students came to have opinions
based on the comparison with their own life. |
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Wahl-Coates ES has agreed
that they show pictures of life at attached
Mihara Elementary School at their Japan Festival. |
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As academic years start
at a different time in America, it is difficult
to continue exchanges among pupils. |
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Additional remarks
| ŠPF |
In the academic year of
2002, we had both activities of @ and A.
In the academic year of 2005, after working
on @, we introduced life at other elementary
schools found in books. (May, 2nd graders) |
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Since we did not have pictures
of the activity @, we posted pictures of the
same activity offered in the academic year
of 2005. |
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When we offered the activity
@ in the academic year of 2005, we had students
perform the play-with-hands songs along the
videotape, letting them move their bodies
and share the same activity with pupils at
Wahl-Coates ES in the videotape. We believe
that this reflects the effectiveness of letting
them become familiar with English activities
in the class of ginternational exchange learning.h
In addition, we also thought that sharing
the same activity through videotapes instead
of having a direct contact, and singing and
dancing with body movements using play-with-hands
songs, is effective for pupils at their younger
age. We believe that it is possible to introduce
plays even to lower graders using videotapes
in addition to art work exchanges. |
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gTwo classes are having
the P.E. class together at the gym.h |
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gWhy donft they change
their clothes to exercise uniforms?h |
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gThey are dancing
along a song at the morning meeting.
Why donft we move our bodies together?h
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students are performing the play-with-hands
songs along the videotape. Students at Wahl-Coates
on the screen as well as our students are
all smiling. |
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They
are talking while seeing the information about
1st graders at Wahl-Coates ES posted on the
wall.
gThis play looks interesting!h
gWe want to try it, donft we?h |
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This is a part of the school
introduction mailed to Wahl-Coates ES in the
academic year of 2002. |
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