{"id":4984,"date":"2015-12-09T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2015-12-09T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T04:14:52","slug":"2015-christmas-intensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/2015\/12\/2015-christmas-intensive\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Christmas Intensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 5th, we held our 10th Christmas Intensive\u2014a day on which our first-year student spend a Saturday on a Christmas theme. The students are divided into 4 groups, and each group gets to spend 50 minutes with one teacher doing a Christmas-related activity. This year our activities were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew Zitzmann: Making Christmas cards<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Woolbright: Singing Christmas carols<\/li>\n<li>Paul Collett: Christmas picture vocab activity<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Barker: Making Christmas wreaths<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At lunchtime, we all gathered together to share a lunch prepared by\u00a0Malcolm and 4 senior students (thanks Yurina, Miyuki, Ayako, and Yuka!). Then, at the end of the day Santa arrives to deliver the Secret Santa gifts that the students had prepared. A very busy, exhausting, but extremely enjoyable day!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4984 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas-2016-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas-2016-4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4985\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4985'>\n\t\t\t\tGetting ready\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas-2016-12.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4988\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4988'>\n\t\t\t\tAkane with her wreath\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas-2016-48.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas-2016-48-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4989\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4989'>\n\t\t\t\tLunchtime\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4994\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4994'>\n\t\t\t\tCandy canes\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas-2016-71.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas-2016-71-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas-2016-76.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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This year our activities were: Andrew Zitzmann: Making Christmas cards Dennis &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,154],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-christmas","tag-intensive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5025,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions\/5025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seinan-jo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}