2012/10/31

Toy Story3


This is my favorite video. Of couse I watched this movie. I recomend this to you!!!(16)

2012/10/30

BR 2-14: Sara Says No!

"You're dishonest, Father!" says Sara. "You're cheating the customers! I don't want to work at the market!"


It was the first time to read this seriese books. I think that this book also tells us cheating is bad. And pointing out the cheating is very important. Oneday, there was a fruit shop, which the name is MISTER FRUIT, at the market. Mr Fruit and his daughter Sara were selling fruit. Everybody liked them. A boy asked for one kilo of apples, and then he said to him that this is one kilo of apple but they're not one kilo of apple, it was less than one kilo. He was cheating. Sara knew it. When they back to home, she said to him that he is cheating, it's bad. However he didn't think it's bad. Next day, also he was cheating. So she said a prayer "Please help us!" The next day,when he touched fruit, the fruit went bad. Therefore he couldn't sell them. She could sell them, so everybody bought them from honest Sara!! He stays at home, and she sells fruits now.

Whitney, N. (2005). Sara Says No! (194)

BR 2-13: TROUBLE at the ZOO

"Sorry," says Mike. But he is not sorry.
 

When we go to a zoo, we tend to excite ourselves, because there are many kind animals. But we don't have to  take a provocative attitude to animals. I think that this story tells us it. Oneday, a high school students went to a zoo. A staff whose name is Mr. Jenkins showed them a notice. But a boy didn't the notice and excite himself. He gave a sandwich to the big old bear, and he provoked lion. Mr. Jenkins saw him and warned him, but he was not sorry. He was smiling. A girl, Jenny wanted to take picture with a baby kangaroo. Mr. Jenkins said to her that they're small, but very strong, so don't go near them. And then the boy overed the fence of kangaroo, he picked up the kangaroo. Also she overed the fence and wanted to stop his behavior. Then the kangaroo's mother came to them, he was very scared, gave the baby kangaroo to Jenny, and ran away!!!! Mr. Jenkins and Jenny were very angry with Mike.

Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). TROUBLE at the ZOO. USA. (203)

BR 2-12: I Always Win!!

"I want you to win. Our family always finishes first," Mr. Walsh says.
 
This book written by Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall. I thought that this book tells us cheat is bad. One day, Tyler and Ryan had a big race. They both want to win the race. Ryan wins every year, so Tyler wanted to be winner this year. Other hand, Ryan wantyed to be winner this year too. Ryan's father said to him that you should be winner. Both of them were faster than the other riders. When they saw gole gate, Ryan pushed Tyler. Tyler fell off his bike. And then Ryan was winner. However Tyler were injured and went to a hospital. After the race, Ryan went to the hospital, and he gave him winner cup.


Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). I Always Win!. USA. (149)

BR 2-11:The New Guitar

Ray says to his father, "Dad, please buy me this guitar. It's really good!"
 
This book's length is 716 words and this is level two of seriese. A boy, Ray wanted to join in a band as guiter player, but he had not had guitar. When his birthday, he said to his father that he want a guitar. His father thought the guitar is not good, so he bought him a book about guitar. Ray was not happy, so he decided to buy the guiter by his money. And after he bought the guitar, he joined in the band. He was  really happy. He got very excited. When he jumped with his guitar as rock star, the guitar was doroped by him. And it was broken. He came back his house, and he tryed fixing by himself. But he was not able to do.


Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). The New Guitar. USA. (164)

2012/10/29

Podcast episode: The Fox and the Crow

The Fox and the Crow is one of the fables of Aesop and the subject of my latest podcast episode. Please enjoy listening.(23)



Scripts: The fox and the Crow

Do you know Aesop' fables? One very famous fable is The fox and the Crow. In this fable, a fox tricks a crow who has cheese in her mouth into dropping the cheese, which the fox eats. The moral of the fable is: Don't be fooled by flattery.(49)

Aesop's fables: The Fox and the Crow

A crow had stolen some cheese. A fox saw her and decided he wanted the cheese. He told her how bwautiful she looked.The crow believed him Then the fox praised her voice.The crow wanted to show off her voice so she opened her mouth to sing. The cheese fell into the fox's mouth and ran away happy.

The moral is:Don't be fooled by flattery.(64)

Our memorable day

Last wednesday, it was my and my boy friend's memorable day. After school, we went to downtown for eating dinner by his car. We went to my mother's restaurant the name is KIRARI. I like the restaurant, because my mother is owner and my father made it. However the dishes is expensive for us, so we decided to go to there only special day. We enjoyed talking with the staff and eating. We ate mainly seefoods, because I like them!! After dinner, we went to Aso!! I wanted to see stars. Actually, when we reached to Aso, there are no stars :( I was really sad, but the driving time was so fun!! When we were going to Aso, we was listening our favorite songs and singing them!! We could not see stars, so we went to Mt.Hanaoka. Do you know the mountain?? I recommend it to you. The view from the mountain is soooo beautiful. And there is the mountain near by Kumamoto station, so it's easy to go by car. We could not to see stars, but we could see the nice view. My boyfriend had been drving the car, so he was very tired. it was nice memorable day!!! (202)

My favorite season

My favorite season is autumn. I have four reasons. One of my reason is my birthday is November 10th!!! Also my sister’s birthday is November 16th and my mother’s birthday is October 27th. Therefore I often go for dinner with my family in autumn. And I can eat many cakes the season!! Secondly, it is easy to live in autumn. I hate hot weather. Autumn is not hot and not cold. Thirdly, autumn’s view is so beautiful. Trees turn to yellow or red from green. I like the change. Have you seen KGU’s street in autumn?? There are many ginkgoes. When I enter to KGU’s gate, I feel the autumn. And there are many f (115)

My favorite movie

My favorite movie is High School Musical. It’s musical movie in a high school. There are three series. I like the starring roles, Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. They’re best couple. And I like their songs. When I watch the movie, I want to sing and dance although I can not. I think that the story tells us not only song and dance make us fun but also personality is important. Some people hide their personality. In this story, Zac is the best basketball player, but actually he really likes sing a song. He had been hiding the real himself. His father and friends made fum of him. However he(110)

2012/10/22

MP 2-3 The Josefina Story Quilt


BR 2-10 :The Josefina Story Quilt

Faith felt warm and happy under the Josefina story quilt.
This book is the story in 1850. A family were going to California in a covered wagon. A girl, Faith wanted to take Josefina that is her pet.  Faith loved her. However the wagon is small and there are no room for her pet. She begged to take her to her father, so she could take her. There are promise. If Josefina makes any trouble, out she goes! And there were many problem while they were going to California. But Faith protected her. In the end, Faith died, she really sad. They had been making a quilting while they were going to California, so she treasured the quilting as Josefina's memory.

Coerr, Eleanor (1985). The Josefina Story Quilt, Harper Collins Publisbers.

Diet!!!

I decided to begin to be on diet last week, because I want to be slender and I will have to take pictures for twenty years anniversary next month. We call to take the pictures for the anniversary "Maedori". I will go to Kumamoto castle and a studio and I will be took the pictures. I like eating!! I like sweets, noodles, Yakitori, Yakiniku, and so on!!! But I have to patient eating them. I have been eating mainly vegetables since I decided to be on diet. I feel that I'm hungry, but I think it's battle with myself. haha. But I know that being on diet sometimes give us bad influence, so I would like to rethink about my way to be on diet. (126)

2012/10/18

Oct, 18, 2012

I have to write the paper about American adoption. Therefore, I sent the questionnaire our host families yesterday. Somepeople sent it back to me. I was glad to see their opinion. My host family is very compliant. I would like to write the best paper!! And my favorite girls group, Girl's generation's concert will be hold next spring. I really like the group, so I subscribed the concert tickets last week. And I'll be able to know whether or not I can go the concert. I can't wait the result!!! I usually listen to western music. However I really want to go the concert, so I pray to be able to get the tickets while I have been listening to their music last week!! haha. If you don't know "Girl's generation", you had better check it!! (137)

BR 2-9:Quick Thinking

  "That is quick thinking!" he says.

This book has 693 words and 150 headwords. And Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall wrote this book. I think that cooperation is very important in everything. This book tells us how important cooperation is. One day, in the park John and Tyler were showing their cars when Faye and David were going to the beach. And David and Faye went to the beach, then they met Daniela at the gate. She was working as ice cream shop's staff. When they sat the beach, they found a man who is running and is having a bag. He is theif. He was running to the gate, so Faye called to Daniela. She said to her "Stop that man!!!". Then Daniela pushed the ice cream cart, but he had run to the park. So they called to John. "Stop that man!!!" then, they used their cars and their cars hit the man, and the man dropped the lake. He could not run away.


Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). Quick Thinking. USA. (181)

2012/10/17

Oct, 16, 2012

I woke up at 9o'clock this morning. And I went to the driving school by the school bus. It's convenient. I drove for about an hour with my teacher's support. I will have finished studying the driving subjects. And then I'll take the examination!! I'm nervous. After the driving school, I went to KGU by the school bus. The driver was my boyfriend's driving teacher, so I talked about him:) I took a class, and I went to my boyfriend's house. We made "nabe"!!! I like kimchi nabe most. It was so good!! And I did English Central while he was washing dishes. He is very kind ! I have to work as part-time job from tomorrow:( I don't want to work:( (121)

2012/10/15

HAKATA with pipi

My friend pipi go to a beauty school. And she had to take nail official examination, so I went to Hakata with pipi as nail's model. We met at Koutsuu center 5:30 in the morning. It's too early. I had to wake up at 3:30. We rode a bus and went to Hakata. While we was in bus, we were sleeping. At 8:30, we arrived at Hakata station. And we went to a building, there were many people. I was surprised. She looked like nervous. I said to her "Cheer up!!" The official examination was so long. First she cared my nails for 35 minutes, and after that she painted my nails, made fake nail, and made halloween art nail for 55 minutes. She were good at them. And she took paper examination and I showed my nails that was made by her to teachers. When teachers were watching my nails, I was so afraid. After the official examination, we went to Canal city!!! We enjoyed shopping (167)

Oct, 15, 2012

Good morning!! I have classes from 10:30 today. but I went to KGU at 9o'clock and I have been doing my homeworks. I have a lot of things that I have to do, but everything is for me!!! I have to write a report for Kaigaikenshuu. I decided to write the report about adoption, because my host sister is adopted child from Korea. Therefore I made questionnaire about adoption, and I sent it to my host family. And I'm hungry:( because I didn't supper and break fast.  My stomach's growling loud:( I'm ashamed. I can't wait lunch time!! It's time to go to classroom! (105)

my favorite animal

I would like to talk about my favorite animal. I like dogs. Actually I liked only small dogs, because I was afraid of big dogs. Small dogs are cute. However, in this summer I became like big dog too, because I had been staying at a home, the family has a big dog. First when I saw the dog, I was afraid of it. But he is very clever and kind. So I didn’t be afraid. And I have been having a dog for six years. My dog’s name is Berry. Berry is toy poodle. When I’m sleeping, she always comes next to me. I sometimes walk around with her. We are not only family but also friend. (118)

2012/10/11

Oct, 8, 2012.

I went to downtown for eating lunch with my grand mother. I wanted to eat chinese food, so we went to "Kourantei". Since I back to Japan from Minnesota, I haven't been seeing her, I gave some souveniors her and talked about Minnesota life. My grand mother works everyday, so she is very busy. But we could have time. We had great time. (64)

BR 2-8: The Tickets

" But I really want to go", says Kerry. "Please give me a ticket, Jenny."

This book was written by Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall. One day, It was Jenny's Birthday. Jinny gave her some tickets that is her favorite band's concert tickets. She was very glad. She said to them " I'll go to there with my boyfriend. Then Kerry said "I want to go!! Your boyfriend doesn't like the band, but I like the band." And when Jenny go to classroom, she dropped the tickets. Kerry watched it, so she put the tickets in her purse and she decided to give her later. At lunch time when she paid money for lunch, Jimmy saw the tickets that were put on her purse. He was really angry. Then Jenny enterd in cafeteria, so Kerry gave it her.Jimmy thought that Kerry steal the tickets. I think so too, because she wanted to go the concert. She was suspected by him. But I think to believe is important.

Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). The Tickets. USA. (185)

BR 2-7: Singer Wanted

"We want you to sing with us!" "me?" says Daniela.


This book was written by Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall. I think that this story tells selfish person is hated everyone. One day a band wanted a new singer. Daniela wanted to be the new singer. But Gemma also wanted to be it. Both Daniela and Gemma are good singer. However Daniela was very nervous to sing and she couldn't sing very well. On the other hand, Gemma was not nervous and she could sing very well. The band decided to chose Gemma for the new singer. Daniela was sad. However Gemma was very selfish. Forexample, she wanted to change the band's name and she wanted to put on clothes that she chose. Therefore they said to Daniela "you are our new singer." There are often selfish person. I think I am sometimes selfish. But we can't live alone. We have to cooperate with people, so we don't be selfish.

Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). Singer Wanted. USA. (177)

My favorite place I've been

My favorite place I’ve been is Bali. Have you been to Bali?? I have been to Bali when I was 13 years old with my family. It was my first time to go abroad. There are beautiful views in Bali. We saw sunset from beach while we were eating dinner. I can’t forget the view. And I like seafood. We can eat seafood in there. Bali is island, so we can enjoy swimming or surfing. My father bought surfboard at there. And Bali’s people are very kind. My mother’s friend lives in Bali, so I and my younger brother went to his house and I spent a day with his family. Then I was 13 years old, so I couldn’t speak English. But they were kind to us. And there are many small store like accessaries, bags, and so on. We can also enjoy shopping.(145)

My favorite color

I would like to talk about my favorite color. My favorite color is “Black”, because I think that black color is cool. Mostly, girls like “Pink”, because pink color is cute. But I want to be a cool woman. Therefore I don’t like pink color. And some people think that black color is dark, so they tend to hate black color. I like more dark color than light color. I like black color, so I have a lot of black clothes and black accessories. Therefore my closet is filled with black color. I always put on black things, but this summer I tried to put on white things. Then my friend said to me “You had better put on white things!!”. Therefore I thought that I want to challenge to put on not black things. (135)

2012/10/04

BR 2-6: Goobye, Hello!

"Hello, I'm Alex." She smiled and says, "I'm Jenny. Hello."


There are 75 headwords, and this length is 568 words. This title is "Goobye, Hello". Generally "Hello, Goodbye" Oneday, Alex and Daniela who is Alex's sister were shopping for their mother's birthday. A little girl hit Alex with shopping cart. He was very angry. And then, the girl said " I'm sorry." He thought that she is beautiful. He said "I'm ok." And she said "Goodbye." He wanted to see her again. And later, The girl appeared in his class room as new student. He was surprised, She said to him "Hello."

Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). Goobye, Hello. USA . (120)

BR 2-5: Sk8 for Jake

Mr. Walker talks to the man. He tells the man about Eric,Yoko, and John.


This book written by Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall. This length 724 words. This title's "sk8" is "skate". Yoko, Eric, and John are skateboarders. When they were skating in the park, a mam who works in the park came to them and said "Do not play on the benches!" One day, the world's number one skateboarder, Jake montaya came to the town and there was a big show. However he was late for the show. Mr. Walker thought that Yoko, Eric and John can stake at the show while he is late. And they started to skate. Four weeks later, there was a place for skating in the park!!

Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). Sk8 for Jake. USA. (140)

BR 2-4: Quiz Night

"What? It's the next question? Oh no!" he says. "I can't win now!"


This book's length: 895 words. This book was written by Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall. What's do you think about a fixed game? It's wrong. However there are fixed game in this world for all that we know it's wrong. Oneday there was a Quiz Night. Ji-sung and Gemma wanted to win. Gemma tried to see the questions when Mr.Becker was making the questions. And on sunday, It was the Quiz night. Gemma and Ji-sung both were finalist. Before the last question, John said "What's  the capital of Thailand?" It's the last question. Then Ji-sung was very angry. When the last question, he didn't say the answer on purpose. He was not able to be winner.

Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). Quiz Night. USA. (146)

BR 2-3: Old Boat, New Boat

"Look at that!" says Tyler. "That's a nice boat!" he says.


This book was written by Rob Waring and Maurice Jamall. This length is 713 words. People tend to be jealous of other people's new thinds. This book is appeared the feeling. Oneday, Tyler, David and Faye found an old boat on a beach. The old boat was threw down there by Mr.Walsh and Ryan who is his son. Tyler, David and Faye made some money for fixing the old boat. After it was fixed by them and it became like the new boat, Ryan appeared there and said "this boat is mine." They were surprised. I think Ryan is very dishonest.

Waring, R & Jamall, M. (2006). Old Boat, New Boat. USA. (133)

2012/10/01

MP 2-2: The Bully


MP 2-1: Brer Rabbit and the Blackberry Bush

BR 2-2: Brer Rabbit and Blackberry Bush

"I was born in the blackberry bush."
This book was written by Louie Stowell. I think this is a ready wit story. One day a fox caught a rabbit. And then, the fox decided to eat the rabbit. The rabbit said to the fox "Please don't throw me in the blackberry bush!" The fox thought that the rabbit hates the blackberry bush. And the fox threw the rabbit the blackberry bush. But actually the rabbit was born in the place!!! The rabbit is smart!

Stowell Louie. (2007). Brer Rabbit and the Blackberry Bush. London, UK: Usborne. (106)

driving school

I have been going to a driving school since I came back to Japan from Minnesota. Actually, I decided to go to the driving school next year. However, in spring, there are many people in the school. Therefore I changed the season. If I get the driver license, I would like to go to far from Kumamoto like Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Fukuoka and so on. However, there are no friends in the school, so I'm always nervous:( I don't have friends in the school, but my driving teacher is kind and funny. When I drove the car at the school,  my teacher said to me "You are good at driving!! Have you ever driven the car??? This is not your first time, isn't it??" I said "No, no, no!! This's my first time." But actually, I drove a car one time in America!!! When I was staying at Minnesota, one day my host father said to me "Today's good driving day!! Let's try, Chiiko!!" I was surprised!!! My host father taught me how to drive. It's also my special memories in America. (182)