Japanese
Minasan Konnichiwa! (Hello everyone.)
Welcome to Week 4
Year 5/6
Students have been focusing on “Japanese houses”. This unit is designed for learning about both the language and traditional and modern culture. They started the unit by learning “How to visit someone’s house in Japan”. Students are well-engaged with learning about the different life style and are enjoying a variety of activities such as Q&A, pair conversations, reading and writing, a plenty of photos and videos and games.
Piper trying out the Japanese ZABUTON
Piper trying out the Japanese ZABUTON
Archie showing the class how to sit politely in Japan
Archie showing the class how to sit politely in Japan
Year 3/4
Students have been focusing on “Japanese houses”. This unit is designed for learning about both the language and traditional and modern culture. They watched a video about “120 years old Japanese houses” and discussed what they noticed. Students have learnt some words for features inside Japanese houses such as entrance, paper sliding door, tatami mat etc and learnt about a different life.
Darci showing the class how to sit on ZABUTON
Darci showing the class how to sit on ZABUTON
Year 3/4 exchange program
Currently, Japanese schools are having their summer holidays and our exchange program will be back in September.
Year 1/2
Students are learning about “Things around the classroom” such as pencil, eraser, glue, scissors, ruler and pencil case. They looked at some Japanese stationary such as unique pencils, erasers and pencil cases. After we learnt the names of the items, we practiced identifying them in conversation. We usually learn about Japanese items, practice saying the words, write them out in Japanese and then draw some pictures to reinforce the meaning. They always have an opportunity to pronounce a word individually.
Origami flowers
Origami flowers
Foundation
Students have been learning about some farm animals. They have learnt how to say sheep, cow and horse so far. And they made some sheep craft that they took home. Please ask your child/ren what they are. (hitsuji-sheep, ushi-cow and uma-horse)
Students continued to practice greetings, body parts, fruits, animals, likes and dislikes, colours and Hiragana (Japanese alphabet) sounds through a variety of songs in Japanese. They can now confidently introduce themselves and state their age in Japanese. We have also continue with our Origami (paper folding) and students are getting very good at folding them by themselves.
Sheep-HITSUJI
Sheep-HITSUJI
Cow in Japanese
USHI
Cow in Japanese
USHI
Have a great week!
Ayako Mizushima (Mizu Sensei)