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Thank you for joining us for the reading of another wonderful picture book.
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Today's selection is Meet May by April Martin.
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This is May.
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May loves spending a lot of time in her garden.
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Sometimes she can be hard to find because she is so busy with her plants and garden friends.
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Can you spot her?
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Oh, there she is.
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May and her friends just love watching the plants grow on warm spring days.
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April, May, and June work together to take care of her garden.
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April helps May water the plants,
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and June makes sure the plants get lots of sun.
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Flutter, May's beautiful pet butterfly,
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lives in her garden too.
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She raised Flutter from a tiny little egg this spring.
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May loves watching flutter fly around with the bees and hummingbirds.
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They help pollinate the flowers.
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Soon, May will have a bunch of vegetables too.
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May cannot wait to share with her friends all of the ways her garden helps her.
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My garden makes me so happy,
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May tells April and June.
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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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First is Lay Day.
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Mayday is Lay Day.
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Lay is a garland or necklace of flowers given in Hawaii as a gift of welcoming or farewell.
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I can gather some of the flowers to make lay for show and tell.
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May celebrates her heritage and tells her class fun facts about her family every year.
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I really love to grow vegetables in my garden too, May says.
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May uses the vegetables from her garden to make salsa for Cinco de Mayo.
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May's friends and family come over to celebrate Mexican culture on Cinco de Mayo.
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They create crafts, listen to Mexican music,
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and cook a delicious Mexican meal.
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What I love the most about my garden is
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that I can grow the most beautiful flowers for my mom and grandma on Mother's Day,
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May told her friends.
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This year, she planted tulips for her mom and zinnias for her grandma.
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They're almost ready.
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Each year, May thinks of different ways to celebrate her mom on Mother's Day.
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May thought about all the gifts she has given her.
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One year, she gave her a paper flower bouquet.
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Each flower listed a way her mother was special.
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Another year, she handpicked a bunch of flowers to make her a real bouquet.
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Last year, she gave her mom a potted plant in a painted pot.
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This year, she was planning a surprise.
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It was going to be the most beautiful Mother's Day gift of all,
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but first she needed some help.
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She whispered her idea to Flutter and began collecting everything she needed for her surprise.
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She could not wait to celebrate Mother's Day with her mom and grandma.
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The next day, May worked on a pretty welcome banner.
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She made a card to invite her mom and grandma too.
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You are invited.
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What?
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It's a surprise.
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When?
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Mother's Day.
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Where?
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My garden.
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What beautiful spring weather we have,
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May thought as she twirled and gave Flutter the banner to hold.
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Maybe we can surprise them a little early.
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Until a gust of wind blew Flutter and the banner away.
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May wilted with sadness.
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Her friend and her banner were gone.
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Just then, the wind blew Flutter and her banner right back.
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This is not good weather to celebrate, May said.
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It is too windy.
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We will wait for better weather, Mr. Flutter.
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Later that day, April, May,
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and June made a list of items needed for the surprise.
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A table, some chairs, placemats,
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napkins, silverware, teacups, plates, and a teapot.
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May was so thankful her friends could help.
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They carefully brought everything outside and set up the table in the garden.
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The table looked perfect next to the zinnias and tulips.
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Except for one thing.
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May decided they should move the table,
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just a tiny bit, to make room for the chairs.
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The teapot wobbled to the left.
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The teapot swirled to the right.
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The teapot slid right.
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Off.
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The table.
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Oh no!
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They all stared down at the broken teapot.
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April thought they could glue it.
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June said they could just go without it.
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You can't have a tea party without a teapot, May cried.
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May's grandma overheard the girls talking about the teapot.
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I have just the right thing to fix this, she said to herself.
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She went inside to get the special teapot her mother gave her when she was little.
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May was still sad about her broken teapot when her grandma appeared.
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Here you go, dear, her grandma said.
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This is a very special teapot.
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You can use it for your tea party.
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May gasped.
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Oh, Grandma, thank you.
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I will take special care of it.
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You saved the surprise I was planning for you and Mom.
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May finished setting the table.
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She remembered what her grandma taught her.
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Fork on the left with a napkin,
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knife and spoon on the right with a teacup and saucer.
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Everything was coming together.
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The windy weather cleared, and it was beautiful outside.
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It was the perfect spring day for a Mother's Day tea party.
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They snuggled and had tea,
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just the way this Mother's Day was meant to be.
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My May Notebook May is the fifth month of the year.
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Cinco de Mayo means fifth of May in Spanish.
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We celebrate teachers and nurses in May.
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The month of May has 31 days.
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Mother's Day is held on the second Sunday of May every year.
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Memorial Day is a day we honor those who died while serving in the U.S military.
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This holiday is on the last Monday in May.
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If you are born in May,
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your birthstone is an emerald.
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The month after May is June.
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このレッスンでは、子供向けの絵本『Meet May』を通じて、家族、友情、そして特別な休日の祝福について学びます。このストーリーを読みながら、特に春や文化的な祭りに関連した英語の語彙を増やし、自然な会話力を向上させます。また、家族や友人との関係の重要性について考えるきっかけにもなるでしょう。
重要な語彙とフレーズ
- garden - 庭
- butterfly - 蝶
- celebrate - 祝う
- heritage - 遺産
- vegetables - 野菜
- Mother's Day - 母の日
- crafts - 手工芸品
- delicious - 美味しい
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シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。