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Save the Date… Friday 16th August!
HIRAGANA KARATE BELTS
A major focus for students in years 3-6 is learning to read and order Hiragana alphabet characters and understand how they can be used to represent words. We use the Hiragana Belt System, where students get 10 minutes of practice time each lesson. During this time they use a wide variety of choice activities to focus on characters from the rows they are learning and progress through the levels at their own pace. It’s great to see student levels of enthusiasm and the wonderful progress being made.
A MASSIVE Congratulations to RUBY WILSON who earned her BLACK BELT WRITING this week.
She is the first student at Buninyong to ever achieve Black Belt in both reading and writing. Fantastic effort Ruby, well done!
CONGRATULATIONS to the following students who have also earned some HIRAGANA KARATE BELTS recently!
White Belt
Mackenzie Burrows, Pip Griffin, Zia Smyth, Hayden Staggard, Mahli O’Loughlin, Olivia Croft, Darci Antonio, Riley Murdoch, Poppy Harris (writing)
Yellow Belt
Charlotte Sandwith, Zahra Taylor, Willow Klaver, Candy Mauseth, Mahli O’Loughlin, Thomas Croft, Oliver Verdoorn, Emily Wilks, Poppy Harris (writing)
Green Belt
Shylynn O’Malley, Alyssa Warner, Imogen Beck, Leila Haddad, Cooper Greenbank, Sadie Jones, Oliver Verdoorn, Poppy Harris (writing)
Orange Belt
Charlee O’Malley, Imogen Beck, Spencer Stewart, Billy Gravell
Blue Belt
Mia Reynolds, Aiden Taylor, Lucy9u4 Baldwin
Purple Belt
Aiden Taylor, Tahlia Jacka
BLACK BELT
Isabelle Channon, Rachel Gerada, Poppy Harris
KAZOKU – FAMILY
Our studies this term into family member names and counting people has finished with students creating some great work for their assessment pieces!
Students in P-2 have been creating their own page for a “Dare desu ka - Who Is It?” class book which, when complete, will be given to their classroom to become a take home book from next term. They are all very proud of their pages and look forward to sharing those with you.
Students in 3- 6 have been using VOKI (https://www.voki.com/) to create an online talking avatar that describes something about their family. They have created some very interesting characters and done a great job with this task.
JAPAN TRIP UPDATE
69 days to go!
Final payments are now due. Bookings have all been finalised and the countdown is well and truly on. A reminder that the pre trip departure meeting for participating families has moved to Wednesday 31st July at 7pm.
TRIP HIGHLIGHT: TOKYO SKYTREE
We will be visiting the famous Tokyo Skytree on Tuesday 3rd September.
Tokyo Skytree (東京スカイツリー Tōkyō Sukaitsurī) is a broadcasting and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010 and reached its full height of 634.0 metres in March 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world after the Burj Khalifa (829.8m).
JAPANESE APPS FOR LEARNING
If you have time over the holidays to practise some Japanese (language, culture, art, etc.), here are some great apps for students to practise with:
JAPANESE FACT
