January 2010
1:
Dear KNI students
2:
Do you know these words?
3:
January birthdays
Dear KNI students
Did you have a good time during winter break?
Do you remember
Santa Clause came to KNI to bring presents to all of you?
Did he come to your place, too?
The daikons in the KNI garden have grown so much while you were enjoying winter break!
Did you see them? Believe it or not, they are going to be much, much bigger!
The new year 2010, ( Heisei year 22 ) has started.
It is
the year of the Tiger this year.
Did you receive a Tiger new year's card from KNI?
Did you notice you can actually cut it out and make a decoration?
If you haven't tried yet, please enjoy making your own new year's decoration.
Let's have another fun year with us at KNI!
From your teacher
Do you know these words?
These are words you hear a lot around the New Year.
Let's learn them together!
Omochi ( rice cake ), Usu ( rice mortar ), Kine ( pestle ),
Hagoita ( wooden paddle), Hane ( shuttlecock ),
Koma ( spinning top ), Saikoro ( dice ), Yakkodako ( kite ),
Karuta ( Japanese card game ), Shishimai ( the Lion Dance performed during the New Year),
Kadomatsu ( a traditional Japanese decoration of the New Year),
Hatsumoude ( New Year's visit to a shrine ), Okagami ( special New Year's rice cake ),
Otoso ( spiced medicinal sake drunk during the New Year celebration),
Ojyu ( Japanese New Year's food in tiered lacquer boxes ), Ozouni ( mochi soup ),
Otoshidama ( New Year's monetary gift ),
Nengajyo ( New Year's card), Hatsuyume ( First dream of the year )
January birthdays
The interview to the children who were born in January
" Where would you like to visit? "
Sakura Class
Emi Rother ( 5 ) Disneyland
Luke Borreson ( 5 ) Disneyland
Takezo Fujita Ostman ( 6 )
Kenzo Nakagawa ( 5 ) LEGOLAND
Renge Class
Hana Speaks ( 5) Disneyland
Myka Enomoto ( 5 ) Japanese grandma's place
Birei Chin ( 4 ) Party
Momo Class
Jimmy Osorio ( 3 ) Zoo
Kiku Class
Sakura Aramian ( 4 ) Disneyland
Junsei Sakamoto ( 5 ) Death Valley
Sophie Ludes ( 5 ) Grandpa & Grandma's house