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A month ago, Ms. Sato, our home economics teacher told us about an activity to show
kumishibai at a kindergarten. She said, "You'll make groups and each group has to make a kumishibai."
I thought, "The activity will be challenging and interesting to me."
Our group had four members. We made our own story with four characters and started to
paint pictures. After two weeks we finished making the kumishibai.
Then we started practicing to perform.
We practiced many times but we couldn't perform it well. So, we asked Ms. Sato to see our
performance. After she saw it, she said, "The story and pictures are good, but you should
get into your roles."
Then we talked about our performance. One of the members said we should change the tone
of voice for each scene. Another member said we should perform
the characters with more expression. After talking, we practiced more. We were glad to
find that our performance was getting better. I learned that it's important for us to
work together.
The day to visit kindergarten came. Ms. Sato told our group to perform for the oldest children's
class.
"Hello, everyone! Now we'll start our kumishibai." we said. We tried hard to perform the characters
well. For some scenes we sometimes changed the speed of reading. For other scenes we
read very loudly to make the story more exciting.
When we finished, a girl in the class said to us, "I really enjoyed your kumishibai.
I want you to come again!" We were happy to hear her words. When we were leaving the kindergarten,
the children waved to us.
This was one of the most challenging activities I've ever had. I've learned it's interesting
to do something for small children. I hope to visit them again.