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Saturday Japanese Class News

November 2016

1: Class 1 (Kindergarten) - Ms. Ozeki
2: Class 2 (Elementary Lower Grades) - Ms. Umehata
3: Class 3 (Elementary middle grades) - Ms. Itagaki
4: Class 4 (Elementary Upper Grades) - Ms. Oota
5: Class 5 (SAT AP Preparation) - Ms. Yamada


December 2016 – Merry Christmas!!!l!

Please see Saturday Japanese School website - http://m-jasakura.jimdo.com/

Class 1 (Kindergarten) - Ms. Ozeki

Lesson Goals:
- Learn proper posture and pencil holding style and able to write letters with appropriate 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 and dance along the Christmas songs in Japanese.
Grammar 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 (Elementary Lower Grades) - Ms. Umehata

Lesson Goals:
- Review all Katakana in first semester.
- Observations of Daikon.
Class Activities:
- Be familiar with the names of fruits and vegetables and well as descriptive words to go with those items.
- Make donguriyajirobei (Acorn balancing toy)
Grammar and Vocabulary:
- Learn descriptive words such as large, small, delicious, red, green yellow.
- Explain what and when of one’s action. Watashiwa(bokuwa), itsu, dokode _____wo shimashita.

Class 3 (Elementary middle grades) - Ms. Itagaki

Lesson Goals:
- Understand and sing the Christmas songs in Japanese. (ie., Jingle bells, and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer)
- Be able to clearly read the phases on the work sheet “Calligraphy and new year greetings”.
Class Activities:
-Be able to sing the Christmas songs in class.
- Christmas card making
- Practice January calligraphy
Grammar and Vocabulary:
- review all the kanji leaned so far.
- Be able to understand and use the new kanjis 5 kanjis weekly.

Class 4 (Elementary Upper Grades) - Ms. Oota

Lesson Goals:
Lesson Goals:
- Read complex sentences containing transition words.
- Understand the parts of kanji
- Understand the order of subject and predicate.
Class Activities:
- Read “Ippon no ki”. Draw pictures to explain how the story develops.
- Practice calligraphy to enhance the understanding of importance of the stroke order.
- Charismas cards making
Grammar and Vocabulary:
- transition words to make complex sentences.
- review the use of tense.

Class 5 (SAT AP Preparation) - Ms. Yamada

Lesson Goals:
- Learn about the differences in End of the year and new year events between US and Japan.
Class Activities:
- Conduct research on Christmas and New Year celebrations in Japan and in US and present.
- Sing Christmas songs in Japanese
- Write New Year greeting cards.
- Calligraphy practice
Grammar and Vocabulary:
- Study end of the year and New year words, food names and phrases such as :osechi-ryori, toshikoshisoba, joyanokane, hatsuhinode and etc.

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