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We had a wonderful day 五月晴れ. Rindo students enjoyed running outside. We have studied keigo to use for others. We will study keigo for ourselves next class. Rindo students were a bit struggle to say long keigo sentences. I believe “practice makes perfect”.
Have a great long weekend.
culture: greeting and bow
grammar: keigo verbs
kanji: 別れ、違い、普通、尊敬、病気、働く、教育、生活、外国人、船長
reading: John Manjoro( the first page)
Home study:one page of review sheet
AP
We have studied Japanese grammar, kanji and history as reading” John Manjiro”. It was amazing that we had finished whole story in one class.
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We had two assistant teachers, Ms. Wilson and Mr. Koshiya today. Those teachers helped us a lot during the class. Thank you very much, Yukiko-sensei and Hitoshi-sensei!
Activities
1. Let's review Hiragana and Katakana!
The students wrote down all Katakana letters on a worksheet and worked six Hiragana worksheets and read them all nicely.
2. Let's make calendar !
Each student made his/her special calendar for June, 2012 with Origami crab, whale and angelfish.
3. Let's play Karuta!
The students and the teacher played Guritogura-Karuta, which is a students' favorite Karuta, and had so much fun!
Independent Work at Home
Answer the questions on the worksheets in your red folder.
Draw and write your picture diary.
Things to Bring on June 2nd
A sheet of "Hiragana-hyo" and "Katakana-hyo"
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We are now finalizing the performance script. In next class on 6/2, we will assign roles and practice them.
Related to the script, we learned some of honorific styles,
お+（ますform）+になる、お+（ますform）+ください patterns.
As we learned, 座（すわ）る and 試（ため）す may be one of most frequently used verbs in this pattern.
We also reviewed there are some exceptions, like 見る、着る、死ぬ.
Have a nice Memorial day weekend next week!
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We only had 6 students today... spring sports season is at its peak! Everyone enjoyed each other's company both at Target and Homeroom class... always very nice to see students getting to know each other.
We covered these agendas:
1) Target class: my group practiced Dakuon and Han-dakuon. Although students generally knew Hiragana with dots (dakuon) and bubbles (han-dakuon), some words were hard to remember. We reviewed animal names, food names and plant names + others with han/dakuon and talked what they were.
We then looked at G1 Kanji chart and I showed them the very general rule of stroke order: left to right, top to bottom. Some students have written kanji in very unique stroke order, which I didn't quite mind at this point, but proper stroke order strategy might help them remember how to retain Kanji. We practiced/reviewed following Kanji today: 上、下、日、月、火、水、木、金、土、炎、林、森、女、姦。It was hard to guess what three women meant, but once they learned the meaning (noisy), everyone said it made sense. (same for forest and big fire).
2) Outside recess and snack
3) Continued to work on introduction of City where family members live. It is interesting to see what captured students' mind when they visited the city or studied about the place.
See you on the 2nd! Have a wonderful Memorial day week.
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For Gakugeikai, we reviewed/practiced the song すうじのうた. It is getting familiar, but some parts are still not sure for some students. Another part of Gakugeikai performance is the song じゅうにんのこども. We have learned how to count people ひとり、ふたり、さんにん...and have been singing this song. We practiced to line up in order, using the cards of numbers. We are going to keep working on these songs in coming classes, and make our performance great!
We've been working on だくおん・はんだくおん. We had a comprehension quiz this week. It was a dictation quiz, and most of students showed good listening skill and understanding about those letters.
We learned the word てじな, the magic, and practiced to trick people by あやとり! It was a little confusing at the begining, but after they got it, students had fun and practiced it with partners.
At the end of the class, we had the guest teacher, Yayoi sensei. The lesson was about the Mothre's day and including new vocablary, a game, and writing. It was a lot of fun and Karakurenai students showed the great interest and participation. God job! Thank you very much, Yoyoi sensei!
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Rindo students kept practicing for Gakugeikai. Also we made a check list to be a good performer. Sato san was kindly to help Rindo class. Thank you so much.
culture: Haiku, keigo
kanji: 学芸会、敬語、質問、答え、お願い、失礼、仕事、両親、元気、子供
grammar: ~良かったです。たら、します。のに 〜てしまいます。
home study: a review sheet
AP
We have discussed about AP exam on last Thursday. The students thought that kanji practice was a key to get a better score on AP exam.
culture: social manners in Japan & in US
kanji:AP kanji list
grammar: short form & long form( verb & adjectives)
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We continued conversation skit projects at a restaurant, a department store and a fast-food restaurant. Next week we are developing longer scripts with honorifics.
HOMEWORK: Do not forget submitting your Haiku!!
Send your Haiku to: keiko@koshiya.net
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Target Class-1st grade kanji / Kanji Kentei Level 10
-Review on Kentei practice exam
-Exercise on finding and correcting kanji characters that look alike
The Summary of Toki Homeroom Activities:
-Mother’s Day activity: 1. we learned how to describe everybody’s mother by using adjectives and made a short acrostic poem from “o-ka-a-sa-n”. It was a bit difficult finding adjectives using “ka” and “sa.”; 2. we made roses and leaves with origami papers to decorate a card for mothers; 3. then wrote the poem on the card.
-Drew pictures of different shops on Posterboard for our gakugeikai performance.
-Aikata Reading (Buddy Reading) activity: Toki students are getting better at reading to their younger friends in Karakurenai class. And we thank our Karakurenai friends for being such good audience!
Things you can do at home
Target Class
-Practice with the sample test ��
-Review the Level 10 kanji as using the worksheet “Kentei mae no fukushu”
-Practice with your textbook if you have one.
Toki Homeroom
1. Read your entry from the Toki Class Library and do an activity related to the story. Please refer to the activity idea sheet.
2. 2nd grade reading comprehension exercise–Worksheet # 5
3. Do worksheet #16 “Moji no chikara (3)”
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We focused on the Mother's Day today and really enjoyed making pop-up cards and Origami carnations for moms. Ms. Randers helped us a lot during the class. Thank you very much, Satoko-sensei! Ms. Keys joined to help us during the demo lesson from 11;30 to noon at Karakurenai class. Thank you very much Ayumi-sensei!
Activities
1. Let's review Hiragana and Katakana!
The students wrote down all Katakana letters on a worksheet and worked six Hiragana worksheets and read them all nicely.
2. Let's make pop-up card and Origami carnation for mom!
The students made special cards and Origami carnations for their mothers.
Independent Work at Home
Answer the questions on the worksheets in your red folder.
Draw and write your picture diary.
Things to Bring on May 19th
A sheet of "Hiragana-hyo" and "Katakana-hyo"
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Target classes (Challenge)
Hiragana Review Group
We worked on hiragana with ゛and ゜, such as がぎぐげご、ざじずぜぞ、だぢづでど、ばびぶべぼ、and ぱぴぷぺぽ.
We will continue to work on those until we all master them.
We have been also working on building more vocabulary.
Please review them.
Kanji Group
We did the practice quizzes on the first grade kanji.
It seems a little hard to write them when a kanji is used in a sentence or in a word.
Let's learn how to use kanji.
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