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Saturday Japanese School April Newsletter

1: JFL morning
2: Class I
3: Class II
4: Class III
5: JFL Afternoon
6: AI
7: A-II
8: A-III
9: A-IV

April Theme: Spring

JFL morning

Goals:

- To be able to Ta-adjectives
- To be able to speak in orders
- To be able to give advices

Class activities:

- To learn how to talk, how to listen and how to ask through presentations

Grammar and Vocabularies:

- Ta, soshite, sorekara, shikashi, bekida etc.

Instructor: Flores

Class I

Goals:

- To be able to sit down with a right posture, and to be able to write Hiragana letters with right stroke orders.
- To be able to feel Spring season

Class activities:

- To make a small book, which contains words with learned Hiragana; and to be familiar with those words
- To learn the basics of Origami crafts by making Spring flowers
- To sing a spring song lively

Grammar and Vocabularies:

- To gather words starting with letter YA, YU, YO, WA, O, N and to learn right stroke orders of these letters and how to write them neatly

Instructor: Ozeki

Class II

Goals:

- To understand a variety of greetings; to be able to read and write them; and to be use them appropriately
- To get to know the rules of small letters and geminated consonants; and to be able to read and write them

Class activities:

- To look for words which contains small letters and geminated consonants
- To learn with “wording cards”
- T0 practice tongue twisters which contain small letters

Grammar and Vocabularies:

- Ohayoo gozaimasu, konnichiwa, konbanwa, itadakimasu, gochisousama, ittekimasu, tadaima, koppu, isya, omocha, etc.

Instructor: Takakura

Class III

Goals:

- To make sentences from daily events by keeping diary.
- To be familiar with Kodomo no Hi.

Class activities:

- A game - making sentences with “who, where, and what”.
- Origami craft (koinobori)

Grammar and Vocabularies:

- O-shimashita
- Ga-arimashita
- Ga-imashita
- Fukinagashi, higoi, magoi

Instructor: Umehata

JFL Afternoon

Goals:

- To be able to make sentences with time.
- To be familiar with Hiragana and Katakana letters

Class activities:

- To learn Japanese basics through games and textbooks
- To make complex sentences

Grammar and Vocabularies:

- XXji ni okimasu, XXji ni gakkou ni ikimasu, etc.

Instructor: Flores

AI

Goals:

- To be able to express, in Japanese, what we feel with our five senses
- To be able to short sentences

Class activities:

- To look for “spring” by walking around school ground
- To come up some sentences by looking at pictures

Grammar and Vocabularies:

- Hana ga saiteiru; tori ga naiteiru; hana no ii nioi ga suru; etc.
- Kitsune ga hashiru; kitsune ga haneru, etc.
- Te, ashi, mimi, kuchi, sei, sora, ki, kusa etc.

Instructor: Yamada

A-II

Goals:

- To be able to say numbers with counter systems, such as “hiki”, “mai”.
- To be able to write “a letter to mantis” after reading the story.

Class activities:

- To find insects in school ground
- To read aloud “kamakiri to shiki”.

Grammar and Vocabularies:

- Haru, natsu, aki, huyu, kaze, kusa, kazu, kazoeru, owari etc.
- ~desyou ka; ~tari, ~tari etc.

Instructor: Ohta

A-III

Goals:

- To know how people eat in different countries; and to gain an understanding of it.
- To gain an understanding what is happening after North Japan Earthquake

Class activities:

- To pay attention how people eat in different countries, utilizing the pictures of Hungry Planet.
- To listen to Enchoo-sensei’s North Japan trip experiences

Grammar and Vocabularies:

- Katorarii bunka, tesyoku bunka, hasisyoku bunka, etc.
- ~o XX de tabetara .. desu. Etc.

Instructor: Siegel

A-IV

Goals:

- To be able to use expressions regarding conditions
- To be able to use Japanese expressions which are most likely to be used at an amusement park

Class activities:

- To talk about what we did during spring break; to ask questions after listening classmates’ experiences (practices to change written messages (emails) to oral expressions)
- To make sure the sentence structures by a textbook.

Grammar and Vocabularies:

- Yatto, totemo, toutou, kitto, tabun etc.
- V-hajimemasu; V-taku arimasen; V-tsumori desu; N-ni narimashita; V-temimasu; V-teha ikemasen; V-temo ii; V-tekureru; V-node etc.

Instructor: Sakamoto

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