After 12 years Happy Valley remains an international favourite and best seller – here’s why!
12年経った今も「ハッピーバレー」

日本語版は下にスクロールしてください。
Happy Valley was first published in 2012 in time for the 2013 academic year, 12 years ago.
In that time it has been a long-time best-seller on sale in 70 countries and voted by children in Japan as more popular than Thomas and Friends!
Happy Valley has helped hundreds of thousands of very young learners learn English.
We’re so proud of Happy Valley and incredibly grateful to all of our users all over the world across all these years.
In this series of short newsletters over 12 weeks, we would like to remind you why we think Happy Valley is great, and why so many of you seem to agree.
Following are comments and quotes from teachers who use Happy Valley, and the reasoning that went into what they noticed.
Thanks, truly, for all of your support.
#4 of 12
Following on from last week’s message about phonics, here’s a little bit more about real English and really easy reading.
As we mentioned, we teach only lowercase graphemes and matching phonemes. Uppercase we use in context where relevant, such as for proper nouns and at the beginning of a sentence.
Happy Valley flashcards never use uppercase unless necessary.
For example, Kinka has uppercase because it’s a name.
Kinka

But flower does not have a capital letter because it’s not a proper noun.
flower

Often you will see this:
Flower or FLOWER


It’s difficult to say these are wrong, but it’s easy to say they are not commonly used – over 95% of written English is lowercase.
So we always use this:
flower

At Happy Valley, we only teach real English and make it really easy to learn.
To see our Happy Valley readers and learn sight words by playing games, visit Happy Valley Digital.
Our regular users love it.
“Happy Valley Digtal is a game changer.”
Jarred Anderson, Kiwi English
Slow reveal and what’s missing? are still two of our favourite flashcard games. What’s missing? is now on Happy Valley Digital.
What are your favourites?
See more games, routines and activities here, in the Routines, Games and Activities Bank.
Enjoy teaching your little ones, and remember, keep it simple!
More next week!
Happy Valley
Modern English
Did you miss the previous emails? See them here.
See the NEW Happy Valley DIGITAL LIBRARY for exclusive videos and other content:
https://happyvalley.bokoco.
2012年に初版が発行され、
この間、「ハッピーバレー」は70か国で販売され、
「ハッピーバレー」は、
私たちは「ハッピーバレー」をとても誇りに思っています。
今後数週間にわたり、短いニュースレターシリーズを通じて、「
以下は、「ハッピーバレー」
本当にありがとうございます。
12件中4件目
前回のフォニックスに関するメッセージに続いて、今回は「
私たちは、小文字のグラフェムと、
ハッピーバレーのフラッシュカードでは、
例えば、「Kinka」は名前なので大文字で書きます。
Kinka

しかし、「flower」は固有名詞ではないため、
flower

一般的に、次のような表記を見かけることがあります。
Flower または FLOWER


これらが完全に間違いとは言えませんが、
そのため、私たちは常に次のように表記します。
flower

ハッピーバレーでは、本物の英語を教え、
ハッピーバレーのリーダーを見たり、
私たちのユーザーは、ハッピーバレーを愛用しています。
「ハッピーバレーデジタルは画期的です。」
ジャレッド・アンダーソン、Kiwi English
「スローリビール」や「What’s missing?」は、
あなたのお気に入りは何ですか?
他のゲーム、ルーチン、
小さなお子様たちと楽しく教えてみてください。そして、
次回もお楽しみに!
Happy Valley
モダンイングリッシュ
See the NEW Happy Valley DIGITAL LIBRARY for exclusive videos and other content:
こちらをご覧ください:
ハッピーバレーデジタル – NEW Happy Valley DIGITAL LIBRARY 独占動画やその他のコンテンツが満載です。
https://happyvalley.bokoco.
Visit the online library at http://bokoco.com/!
http://bokoco.com/のサイトでデジタル・
See our past newsletters on the Happy Valley blog!
ハッピーバレーのブログにニュースレターのバックナンバーがあり
Modern English offers several newsletters (Happy Valley, Moran Actually, and news and announcements). Control which types of mail you receive by clicking “update your preferences” below.
モダンイングリッシュはいくつかのメールマガジンをお送りしてお