Welcome to 2019!

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みんなさん　今日は！

ようこそ to Term 1 of 2019! Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Year break and are refreshed and ready to go again this year. In the Junior Japanese room in 2019 our classes have changed slightly with students in years 1, 2, 3, and 4 having one 50 minute lesson a week, and the year 5’s having two 50 minute lessons a week. The Reception students, while not getting their own lesson, will have a 15 minute pop up lesson in their own classrooms once a week (with exception to Mrs. O’Neills class in term 1).

This term the students will be looking at covering some new topics that will also be used as some revision as we combine previously learned knowledge with new knowledge:

Year 1/2: Weather and Seasons
Learning how to ask and answer what the weather and seasons are.

Year 3/4: The story of Neko Chan and Sakana San
Looking at the use of basic sentence structures, frequently used kanji, colour revision, adjectives, and repetition through storytelling.

Year 5: At The Hamburger Shop
Learning about the fast food industry in Japan and how to order a meal with a variety of sentence structures.

Here’s to a fantastic start of the year!

Coghlan 先生　より。

Coding in Junior Japanese!

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We have been having some fun in Junior Japanese over the last week with the year 3, 4 and 5 students by combining our learning of Hiragana within our units with some coding! Students have:

  • Figured out the codes for particular Hiragana.
  • Found the phonetic sounds of Hiragana after being told a code for specific Hiragana.
  • Used our coding place mats to help them read and decipher words written in Hiragana.
  • Tested each other by asking about different codes and where to find certain Hiragana.

Students have already seen an improvement in their understanding of our basic Japanese alphabet and are excited to use our coding to help them with the rest of our learning.

Below are some pictures of some of our year 3’s in action!

    

    

Coghlan 先生　より。

TERM 2 OVERVIEW 2018 UPPER PRIMARY

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This term we will be working on using verbs to create a travel journal. Students will research a place or places they would like to visit and then describe those places using adjectives and share what they will do, see, eat, drink, and go. Students will have the opportunity to manipulate verbs to create their text to incorporate past, present and negative verb forms.

The year 6 and 7 students will also participate in the Education World Championship language competition which is held in late May.

I look forward to another busy term with the students learning Japanese.

Davey sensei yori

Junior Japanese Term 2 Overview

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みんなさん　今日は！

ようこそ to Term 2! Hope you all had a lovely holiday break and are refreshed and ready to go this term. I am so thrilled that I will continue to have the receptions this term for their 15 minute pop up lessons and this term we are looking at colours.

The start of term 2 we will be looking at completing the work we started in term 1 before moving on to our new units.

Years 1 and 2:
We will be continuing our learning of colours and animals with our Brown Bear unit and are very close to writing our own sentences to finish the unit off before learning our Hiragana.

Years 3 and 4:
We are just finishing up our ‘My Day’ books which the students have done an amazing job with. Next we will move onto the Dr. Seuss classic- One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish where students will learn how to count small animals in Japanese, learn the 匹counter and phonetic rules, use of small つ, joining counting words and nouns, word order of adjective + noun, and which different adjectives use いand の

Year 5:
The year 5’s are finishing their character profile from our Japanese Folktales unit before we combine the knowledge learned from that unit with the new unit: Japanese Travel Journal. Students will focus on their learned knowledge of connected adjective sentences, use different verbs in the correct sentence structure and particle use and use past verbs and negative verbs to describe their journey.

Here’s to term 2!

Coghlan 先生　より。

Colouring in Competition!

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To help celebrate the start of the Year of the Dog 戌年 I am holding my colouring in competition!

Students have from now until the end of week 4- no later- to complete their entry and hand it back into me with their name and class printed clearly for me to see.

Colouring in sheets can be collected from the Junior Japanese room in upper orange but please- only 1 per person!

Happy colouring!

Coghlan 先生　より。

Welcome to 2018!

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みんなさん　今日は！

ようこそ to 2018 and the start of our brand new school year. I hope you all had a fantastic holidays and have come back ready to learn more Japanese this year. In 2018 I am lucky enough to have classes in years 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and get to visit the receptions for mini Japanese lessons in term 1.

During term 1 we will have a bit of fun with some new years activities before covering some topics that will also be used as some revision as we combine previously learned knowledge with new knowledge.

Years 1 and 2:
We will be following the story of Brown Bear (in Japanese of course!) and will be revising our colour knowledge to make basic descriptive sentences.

Years 3 and 4:
After learning our days of the week and basic sentence structure last year we will be moving on to learning how to describe what we do in a week with our unit ‘My Day’. This will combine previous knowledge with some new sentence structures.

Year 5:
So we are on the same page with Davey 先生 and her year 5 and 6 classes we will all be looking at Japanese folktales and learning how to build more detailed sentences about the folktales.

Here’s to a fantastic term!

Coghlan 先生　より。

OVERVIEW TERM 4 2017

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Minasan Konnichiwa

This term in Japanese classes (Years 4-7) students will finish working on their hiragana reading and writing skills. Those that have completed their hiragana are working on their katakana or learning some Kanji characters. Following on from this the classes will be working on individual projects. This will include learning the kanji or katakana they are working on using a variety of experiences as well as choosing a Japanese topic of their choice learning some of the vocabulary and then sharing this with their classmates. The project will also include some experiences to continue practise of hiragana both reading and writing. The year 5 students will also be introduced to Edmodo in preparation for next year’s classes.

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Japanese Program TERM 3 2017

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This term in Japanese classes (Years 4-7) students will be working on improving their hiragana reading and writing skills. Students from Year 5-7 were given a pre test at the start of the term to see how much hiragana they remembered and each student will be working on improving their initial test score. Some students are also working on their katakana writing system skills after getting full marks on their pre- test. As I have mentioned to the students in the class if they are unhappy with their pre-test marks hiragana and Japanese language learning in general requires practise. If you don’t use it you lose it. The students have Education Perfect, the Edmodo learning site and most have devices that could easily have hiragana apps loaded onto them. A few minutes a week on top of the two lessons they have in class would make a huge difference to their retaining the writing system. Not to mention its a brilliant way to exercise the brain!
During classes students will have the opportunity to participate in a number of activities each geared for different types of learners. Each fortnight there will be a test on the hiragana that the students are working on.
Happy hiragana learning Flagstaff Hill R-7 students!

Helpful hints to learn hiragana

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Both the junior Japanese and Japanese classes are working on hiragana this term. Over the years what has proved very effective for the students to remember their hiragana is using mnemonics. Here is a useful one that may help your child. Practising at home also helps even just 5 minutes a week can help keep those characters at the front of their minds. If your child has an ipad or similar there are many free hiragana apps that are useful in learning hiragana and keeping it fun for them.

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Memorizing_the_Hiragana”

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