AMICUS’s Annual event “AMITALKs”, a Japanese speech contest, was held the other day.

Students from G1 through G9 had a selection with the class/grade level under the theme of “Let’s talk for the future.”

On February 26th, they had a school wide contest through Zoom.

Each speaker presented their thoughts and ideas confidently and some speakers even showed their research results in a presentation.

We would like to introduce the speech theme of the representatives from each grade!

 

 

 

G1 “The things I enjoyed this year”

 

She talked about the fun memories that she has spent with her friends and horses!

 

 

 

G1 JSL class “The things that made me happy”

 

He talked about what he’s learned from the JSL class such as hiragana, or how to say body parts in Japanese.

 

 

 

G2 “Afterlife of the recycled materials”

 

He presented what kind of products the recycled materials would be, and the importance of recycling in order to preserve the environment and beautiful ocean.

 

 

 

G3 “The rice powder that changes its appearance. ~A solution to allergy and food loss!?~

 

She did research on rice powder and argued that it would lead to the resolution for food loss.

 

 

 

G4 “Am I going to change…?”

 

He wrote a poem about how he has changed throughout the year of grade 4 and expressed his expectations of becoming a 5th grader.

 

 

 

G4 JSL class “Evolving”

 

He wrote a poem about what he can do now and how he has changed in grade 4, which made us feel his growth.

 

 

 

G5 “A class of the future”

 

She insisted on further improving the online lesson system and further improving the quality of future lessons.

 

 

 

 

G6 “A thing I think it is important”

 

She mentioned that the way people express their feelings could be different by simply giving thanks and giving back. She also said that she will continue to appreciate people.

 

 

 

G7 “Book reviews that will lead to your future”

 

A group of four students gave a recommendation for books. We were able to find the uniqueness of each book.

 

 

 

 

G8 “To accept things by facing yourself”

 

He presented what we can do by facing ourselves as we experienced school closure and spending more time at home due to the covid-19 pandemic.

 

 

 

G9 “Dear me at that time; A message from me”

 

During the last year of junior high school, the events were canceled due to the influence of covid-19, he thought about what he could do to keep his memories. He came up with the idea of making a video letter from his 14 years old current self, to his 11 years old past self.

 

 

 

All of the students were able to openly present their thoughts and ideas that they wanted to share!