★LETTER FROM HAPPY ENGLISH SCHOOL　Sep 16th, 2020

Hello. How are you？ It is still hot during the day time, but it is good that we have more comfortable and cooler mornings and evenings. We hear autumnal bugs singing in the evening, taking the place of cicadas, which were once lively and clamorous, but short-lived and disappeared in August. In my yard, I see some dragonflies gliding by leaving some autumn breeze behind. Now we find many signs of the fall.

I recently read a book about the most effective way to improve elementary school kids’ grades by Mr. Kikuchi,which I found has a lot of practical tips to improve memory and overall scholastic ability.

First, if you want to improve your memory, you should read a lot and lay the foundations of acquiring knowledge to develop your memory. If you do not understand what you want to memorize, you cannot retain it in your memory.

Second, you should read passages aloud so that you can hear what you read and you can even practice speaking as well as reading. In this way, the passages can sink into you.

Third, you should teach others what you have learned so that you can understand more deeply and cultivate your memory further. In fact, your memory is fortified when you teach.

Fourth, you need to sleep after you memorize, memory is sorted out while sleeping.

It is not a good idea that you study all night before the test without sleeping. You need to classify and categorize what you have studied during your sleep.

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The most important thing is that you need to connect synapses leading to the hippocampus to form long-term memory. Memory is formed better along with strong emotions and corresponding actions. Something you experience with an impact is remembered well because it easily goes into the hippocampus through the synapses.

Every English learner should know how memory works and they need to study English effectively by strengthening their powers of memory.

さすが９月になるとさるもの涼しくなってきましたね。『「記憶」を分析してわかった小学生の子の成績に最短で直結する勉強法』菊池洋匡著（実務教育出版）を読んで、記憶についてのメカニズムについて学びました。

記憶力は小学生ばかりでなく、もちろん英語の学習者、いやのすべての人に必要なことです。本を読むことで記憶の下地となる理解力を培う。いろいろなことに興味を持ちアンテナをを張り巡らす。覚えるたら寝る寝ると記憶が整理される。

人に自分が覚えたことを教える。教えることで記憶が確かなものになる。インパクトのある覚え方をする、感情を伴わせたり、体の動きを伴わせたりして。効率よく覚えるためにこれらのことが参考になればいいですね。