Momotaro

5th & 6th grade class performing Momotaro (Peach Boy) in English as the final lesson for the school year. Momotaro is a very popular Japanese fairy tale story about a boy that is born out of a peach and grows up to fight ogres that are threatening his community's people and farms. En route to fight the ogres (or devils) he meets a monkey, dog and a bird that join him on his quest. They successfully defeat the ogres and all return back to Peach Boy's town to live happily ever after.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Japan
• Tanegashima
• English
• Momotaro
• elementary
• school

[kashmonkey]

gah! it's so cute! reminds me of my japanese class...but opposite since i live in america. i'm about to do a performance on issunboshi in my class and seeing this video has brought up my spirit. thanks for putting this up!

[DecayConstant]

That's really good for 5th and 6th graders. Even if they don't know what they are saying, they can read really well. The elementary schools I teach at only have English once or twice per month, so the students never really remember anything. The 5th and 6th graders definatly can't read like that (or at all).