Once a year, every student looks forward to joining a school excursion. Many of our students in Yumekirara had their school excursion this May. 

Our unit lesson for third and fourth graders is about past tense particularly the places kids went to. Some kids informed me where they went and I would follow up what they did there. We have kids who went to Mashiko and made some pottery. Other kids went to Utsunomiya Zoo and Tochigi Wanpaku Park.

It’s nice to hear their stories. Sometimes, they asked higher graders to help translate to English what they couldn’t say. Sometimes, they used simple Japanese words that I could already understand so I can help them say it in English.

It’s great that students get to have this kind of meaningful experience. They learn to interact with other kids from their school, apply traffic rules and become cautious of the dangers in the surroundings,  learn to cooperate and work together in groups,  learn public manners and behave accordingly, and most importantly they get to have experiential learning which is the focus of their excursions.