[

Home

|

Japanese

|

English

]

[

San Gabriel FUMC

|

Sage Granada Park UMC

]

• What's New
• Preschool
• JPN Group Study
• Newsletters
• Blog
• Calendar
• Contact
• Parents assoc.

Newsletters

• To parents
• From parents
• To children
• JPN school
• Papas & Mamas

Saturday Japanese Class News

October 2013

1: Beginner Class 1 - Ms. Ozeki
2: Beginner Class 2 - Ms. Takakura
3: Intermediate Level Class - Ms. Sakamoto
4: Advanced Level Class - Ms. Oota
5: AP Preparation Class - Ms. Yamada


Theme for the month: Halloween

Beginner Class 1 - Ms. Ozeki

Specific Lesson Goals:
- Develop a sense of gratitude for fall produce and learn about Fall fruits and vegetables
- Learn how to read one's own names in hiragana or katakana

Class Activities:
- Word game to review hiragana - find words that start with hiragana learned in class
- Learn Japanese songs relating to the Fall; sing and dance to the songs

Grammar & Vocabulary:
Collect words that include か、き、く、け、こ and learn how to write them in the correct order

Beginner Class 2 - Ms. Takakura

Specific Lesson Goals:
- Create posters for the Candy House Event
- Shopping role-play; play the role of a shop assistant or a customer
- Learn katakana, the long vowel sound, and hiragana with the small や、ゆ、よ、つ

Class Activities:
- Preparation for the Candy House Event
- Create the Candy House Event posters
- Create the thank you posters to show appreciation for those who attend the Candy House Event

Grammar & Vocabulary:
- Irasshaimase ( Welcome to the store), Ikuradesuka? ( How much is it?), Arigatougozaimasu (Thank you for shopping)
- Learn new words through creating posters

Intermediate Level Class - Ms. Sakamoto

Specific Lesson Goals:
- Develop the ability to transcribe various sounds such as long vowels or double consonants (such as katta) by counting beats (similar to English syllables).
- Develop the ability to write letters.
- Develop the ability to voice one’s opinions through the collaborative project, “Candy House.”

Class Activities:
- Read out loud and comprehend the texts #3: “Kana (Japanese alphabet) Letters and the Number of Sounds,” and #4: “Let’s think About the Earthquake Struck Region”
- Dictation
- Letter writing to the Shishiori Elementary School Students
- The Candy House project

Grammar & Vocabulary:
- Connecting [HA] (read as WA)
- Corresponding letters to the long vowel sounds and double consonants.
- Kanji characters and vocabulary from the texts #1-#4

Advanced Level Class - Ms. Oota

Specific Lesson Goals:
- Take a leadership role in the Candy House preparation
- Transcribe various Japanese sounds (See level 3)

Class Activities:
- Word play with cards that show partial words.
- Create solicitation and invitation letters for the Candy House project.

Grammar & Vocabulary:
- Opposite words: The students are encouraged to write those in kanji to increase their vocabulary for words in which two or more kanji are combined.

AP Preparation Class - Ms. Yamada

Specific Lesson Goals and Class Activities:
- Listening practice using materials used at college ( Unit 2; Weather )
- New students; learn kanji from a kanji online website, associate the meaning of the kanji to the equivalent words in English, make short sentences consisting of subjects and verbs with proper punctuation; email those short sentences
- Advanced students; write an essay with 400 words in 20 minutes and email the essay

Grammar & Vocabulary:
- Antonyms, Interrogatives, Conditionals, Negative prefixes, Subjunctives, Making suggestions, addressing people
- tara
- nara
- ga iidesuyo

© 2008-2024 Kodomo No Ie, All rights reserved.