Languages- Japanese 

Communicating with the Specialist Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2020, and welcome your input:

Sensei Masae Uekusa (Japanese) uekusa.masae.m@edumail.vic.gov.au

An Overview of our Learning

Konnichiwa everyone!  

I am very excited to have the first face-to-face lessons with the junior grades in week 8 and all the rest of the grades in week 9 onwards.  Our students will be welcomed by the fresh-looking Japanese room!  To immerse our students to more authentic traditional Japanese culture, we also got a set of floor cushions called ‘ZABUTON’!  Some Japanese people still sit in this traditional and space-efficient way.  So our students will be sitting on those and enjoy learning Japanese from this week. 

In the next few weeks, Foundation students will be learning a new song to learn body parts and consolidate numbers, meal greetings and animals through fun activities.  

Grade 1&2 students will continue to work on the ‘Juice Bar’ unit to be able to understand a Japanese story including fruits, healthy/unhealthy, and tastes.  

Grade 3 & 4 students will be practising to address their daily routine including time and activity entirely in Japanese.  

Grade 5 & 6 students are going to revise shop names and read shop manga in Japanese. 

During the remote learning, I have received so many fantastic photos and videos that shows the students’ learning and progress in Japanese.  I cannot thank you enough for your kind support for the Japanese program.  

Arigatou gozaimasu (Thank you very much)!