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Saturday Japanese Class News

December 2014

1: Class 1 (Kindergarten Level)- Ms. Ozeki
2: Class 2 (Kindergarten Level) - Ms. Umehata
3: Class 3 (Elementary Lower Grades)- Ms.Yamada
4: Class 4 (Elementary Middle Grades) –Ms. Sakamoto
5: Class 5 (Elementary Senior Grades) - Ms. Ohta
6: Class 6 (SAT/AP Prep) – Ms. Miyajima

Class 1 (Kindergarten Level)- Ms. Ozeki

Lesson Goals
- Learn proper posture and pencil holding style and able to write letters with decent writing pressure
- Learn about the history of Christmas and anticipate the event with joy

Class Activities
- Create christmas cards with Hiragana words that they learned.
- Sing along the christmas songs in Japanese.

Grammer and Vocabulary
- Collect the words with the sounds of "sa, shi, su, se, so, ta, chi, tsp, te, to" and learn how to write those words in the proper stroke.

Class 2 (Kindergarten Level) - Ms. Umehata

Lesson Goals
- Compose a simple sentence with words that students have learned.
- Craft: Christmas card and Origami

Class Activities
- Create a Christmas card
- Write a letter to Santa Clause

Grammer and Vocabulary
- "--- san he (Dear ---)", "--- yore (From ---)"
- Who did what and where
- Origami (Santa Clause)

Class 3 (Elementary Lower Grades)- Ms.Yamada

Lesson Goals
- Able to speak Japanese clearly
- Able to write Japanese with correct posture.
- Learn about the growth of daikon radish.

Class Activities
- Sing Christmas songs in Japanese. (ie., Jingle bells, and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer)
- Shuuji: Japanese calligraphy
- Daikon observation journal.

Grammar and Vocabulary
- Review kanji and phrases learned in first semester
- Sentences using hajimeni (First), tsugini (next), and saigoni (lastly)

Class 4 (Elementary Middle Grades) –Ms. Sakamoto

Lesson Goals
- Read the reference in the text book folder, learn the history of Japanese calligraphy and pay attention to the importance of good penmanship.
- Learn and participate in Japanese holiday season events.

Class Activities
- Review of the first semester
- Practice Shuuji: Japanese calligraphy
- Reading in-class materials out loud

Grammar and Vocabulary
- Shape of mouth and pronunciation of "a, e, i, o, u"
- Learn the appropriate way to leave a space between words
- 65 new kanjis for the first semester

Class 5 (Elementary Senior Grades) - Ms. Ohta

Lesson Goals:
- Write New Year cards (Nengajou).
- Compose seasonal (the end and the beginning of a year) greetings with subjects in a sentence matching their corresponding verbs.

Class Activities:
- Review of the first semester
- Greeting card making.
- Calligraphy practicing.

Grammar and Vocabulary:
- Review of kanji characters learnt during the first semester and post positions.

Class 6 (SAT/AP Prep) – Ms. Miyajima

On November 8, 2014, more than half of the class took the SAT Subject Test Japanese with Listening. The students became understandably nervous as they had to take the test in an unfamiliar environment apart from their own schools. Furthermore, our fellow level six students have seen/experienced the unexpected: some forgetting a CD player thus losing the eligibility to take the test (Thankfully, it did not happen to our level 6 students); the test location not open at the scheduled time. Here are some of the afterthoughts shared among the test takers. On listening, “I missed capturing sounds for a moment, so I could not answer some of the questions.” (They can only listen once). On reading, “It would have been easier if I knew more kanji.” Next time you visit Japan, you could help your children consciously learn Kanji from day to day activities such as eating at restaurants, going to the bank or attending school. If you are interested in the SAT test, please visit the following website:
http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-subject-test-preparation-japanese-with-listening

In class 6, we are planning a short time stay in Japan between December and February. The students will be staying at their host family’s house in Kyoto and attending high school as well as exploring different places. On each occasion, the students will try their communication skills and learn Japanese culture, which can be preparatory to simulating topics for the AP Japanese Language and Culture test. Most importantly, the experience will prepare the students to travel to Japan on their own and live there independently in the future whether they are taking the AP test or not.

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