Today, We held English discussion activity "Express Yourself in English !", heard, talked about and sang a song in English, which lead by Yuko-san, a Jazz singer.
All of you who participated, thank you.

Today's theme song was "Sing".

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I thought, "the hearing is easy because "Sing" is simple lyrics". 

But there was a part hard to catch up with listening to Yuklo-san sang.

Doing was really different from imagining !

It was a good lesson for me.

Yuko-san advised difference in pronunciation to us;
 Sing of good things not bad
and
 Sing, sing a song Make it simple to last your whole life long

As it was popular that Carpenters sang "Sing", I thought that it was the original piece of music of Carpenters, but, actually, was different. 
"Sing" is a song written by Joe Raposo for the children's television show, Sesami Street in 1971.
Sesami Street is a long-running American children's television series, which premiered on November 10, 1969.
A 1996 survey found that 95% of all American prechoolers had watched the show by the time they were three years old. In 2008, it was estimated that 77 million Americans had watched the series as children.
Wow!

We did group discussion today.


The first question was
 "Do you remember any song you used to sing when you were a child ?"

In the answer, unexpectedly, there were some popular songs for adult.

In the days of our child, It might be the time when popular song had no difference in generation. 

Then we discussed as follows;
 Do you think that children are different today from the time when you were child ?
 What is the most important thing that we need to teach children ?
 What are the most important lessongs to teach young children at home ?

What is your thoutghts ?