9/13 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

• Reviewed useful expressions together
• Useful expressions quiz
• Gave time to finish some of the pages of Hiragana packet
• Reviewed hiragana a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki, ku, ke, ko
• Learned new Hiragana ga, gi, gu, ge, go
• Reading practice from yellow packet P. 5
• Reviewed kore, sore and are
• Watched nihongo dekimasu skit 1, skit 2
  

Homework: Hiragana yellow packet P. 1 to P. 5

9/13 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

• Reviewed useful expressions together
• Useful expressions quiz
• Gave time to finish some of the pages of Hiragana packet
• Reviewed hiragana a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki, ku, ke, ko
• Learned new Hiragana ga, gi, gu, ge, go
• Reading practice from yellow packet P. 5
• Reviewed kore, sore and are
• Watched nihongo dekimasu skit 1, skit 2
  

Homework: Hiragana yellow packet P. 1 to P. 5

9/13 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

• Reviewed useful expressions together
• Useful expressions quiz
• Gave time to finish some of the pages of Hiragana packet
• Reviewed hiragana a, i, u, e, o
• Learned Ka, ki, ku, ke, ko
• Reviewed page numbers
• Learned telephone numbers
  

Homework: Hiragana yellow packet P. 1 to P. 4

9/13 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

• Reviewed useful expressions together
• Useful expressions quiz
• Gave time to finish some of the pages of Hiragana packet
• Reviewed hiragana a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki, ku, ke, ko
• Learned new Hiragana ga, gi, gu, ge, go
• Reading practice from yellow packet P. 5
• Reviewed kore, sore and are
• Finished watching nihongo dekimasu

Homework: Hiragana yellow packet P. 1 to P. 5

Japanese Club and club fees

Don't forget to pay your club fees by Wednesday. If you don't pay by then, you will not be able to attend the club activity that we will be making rice balls (onigiri).

Invite your friends!!! This is a Japanese culture club and not a Japanese language club!!!

9/12 Japanese 2 B4

Lesson

• Checked homework (Katakana flashcards)
• Reviewed Katakana together
• Katakana chart writing on notebook
• Katakana review in pairs using flashcards
• Katakana karuta game

Homework: Katakana Quiz

9/12 Japanese 3/AP B3

Lesson

• Reviewed verbs
• Verbs Quiz
• Reviewed Kanji together
• Journal writing (土曜日と日曜日、何をしましたか。）

Homework: Kanji Quiz

9/12 Japanese 2 B1

Lesson

• Checked homework (Katakana flashcards)
• Reviewed Katakana together
• Katakana chart writing on notebook
• Katakana review in pairs using flashcards
• Katakana karuta game
• Reviewed verb bases (B1 to B5)
• Reviewed verb types

Homework: Katakana Quiz

9/9 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

• Checked homework (useful expressions exercises - blue paper)
• Reviewed and corrected homework
• Reviewed hai, sou desu & iie chigaimasu
• Reviewed Hiragana a, i, u, e, o
• New Hiragana ka, ki, ku, ke, ko
• Learned basic colors in Japanese
• Reviewed kore, sore, are
• Watched skit one on kore, sore, are of Nihongo Dekimasu

Homework: Useful expressions Quiz (Study blue sheet)

9/9 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

• Reviewed previous useful expressions
• New useful expressions P. 21 & 22
• Exercises using all the useful expressions learned
• Corrected exercises together
  
• Hiragana a, i, u, e, o
• Exercises practicing Hiragana

(Lehi HS students came in late because of the assembly)

Homework: Useful expressions Quiz (Study blue sheet)

9/9 Japanese 1 A1

Lesson

• Checked homework (useful expressions exercises - blue paper)
• Reviewed and corrected homework
• Reviewed hai, sou desu & iie chigaimasu
• Reviewed Hiragana a, i, u, e, o
• New Hiragana ka, ki, ku, ke, ko
• Learned basic colors in Japanese
• Reviewed kore, sore, are
• Watched skit one on kore, sore, are of Nihongo Dekimasu

Homework: Useful expressions Quiz (Study blue sheet)

9/8 Japanese 2 B4

Lesson

• Checked homework (Writing about your own family in hiragana)
• Reviewed in group and outgroup terms
  
• Handed in Katakana flashcards
• Reviewed Katakana together
• Reviewed useful expressions verb +kudasai
  
• Reviewed verbs + new verbs (yaseru, futoru, mieru, kikoeru)

Homework: Katakana flashcards (if you have the set from last year, just bring those)

9/8 Japanese 3/AP B3

Lesson

• Checked homework (Kanji flashcards)
• Reviewed Kanji (reading and meaning)
• Finished Kanji exercises and corrected exercises
• Reviewed verbs + new verbs

Homework: Verbs Quiz

9/8 Japanese 2 B1

Lesson

• Reviewed Hiragana for the quiz
• Hiragana Quiz ha-n
• Finished Kanji exercises (pink)
• Corrected exercises
• Reviewed Kanji together
• Handed in Katakana flashcards
• Reviewed days of the month song
• Reviewed days of the week song
• Reviewed months
• Gave your notebooks back with family writing correction
• Reviewed verbs + new verbs (yaseru, futoru, mieru, kikoeru)

Homework: Katakana flashcards (if you have the set from last year, just bring those)

Japanese movies from World Language Week

The grudge of the ring (Japanese 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm-0gflFCts

Dragons are forever (Japanese AP)
http://www.youtube.com/user/clarklizard23#p/a/u/0/Fa6SCqK5RhU

Milk please (Japanese 3)
http://www.youtube.com/user/clarklizard23#p/u/9/7LYXT0jNPgk

Awesome adventure (Japanese 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlHV_rjw_gU

Pokenoir (Japanese AP)
http://www.youtube.com/user/bloatybloat#p/a/u/0/h1G4kz92bps

Lock down (Japanese 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evfgGkUB7OM

Mario Party (Japanese 3)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=325621724709&ref=nf

Terror on Drury Lane (Japanese 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msWOTdrA7bo

Dough of our lives (Japanese 3)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=140538400081&subj=635540081

Katakana practice websites

Japanese 2 still needs some review on Katakana and here are some websites for you to practice and master all of them before starting learning more Kanji.

Listening practice
http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/site/self/site/gakusyu/katakana2.html

http://www.manythings.org/q/kana.php?u=katakana

http://japanese-lesson.com/characters/katakana/katakana_drill/index.html

Hiragana practice website

Japanese 1 just started learning Hiragana and Japanese 2 just finished reviewing it. Please use the websites below to practice and to master all the Hiragana syllables.

http://japanese-lesson.com/characters/hiragana/hiragana_drill/index.html

http://www.manythings.org/q/kana.php?u=hiragana

http://genki.japantimes.co.jp/site/self/site/gakusyu/hiragana2.html

9/7 Japanese 1 A4

Lesson

• Reviewed desu box and how to put the words together in a sentence

Example: Watashi wa sensei desu.

• Learned how to ask and answer questions
  

Kore wa nan desu ka.
Kore wa ______ desu ka.
hai, sou desu/iie chigaimasu

• Reviewed useful expressions
• Reviewed kore, sore and are
  
• New expressions (slowly please, one more time please, etc)
• Introduced Hiragana
• Hiragana a, i, u, e and o
• Practice exercises using white and yellow packets

Homework: Useful expression matching exercises

Japanese 1 Club representatives

We finally decided the representatives for Japanese 1 classes.

A3: Boshard san

A4: Ellis san

All the representatives should attend our presidency meeting next Monday during lunch. We are going to decide all the activities for the whole year and how to use our club budget.

Please remind everyone to pay our club fees by Monday at the financial office. $10 desu!!!!

9/7 Japanese 1 A3

Lesson

• Checked homework (blog follower)
• Chose a class representative for Japanese club (Boshard san)
• Reviewed how to ask questions
• Learned hai sou desu/iie chigaimasu
• Practice the answers with numbers
• Learned how to say the page counters in Japanese
  
• Learned the difference between kore, sore and are
• Watched nihongo dekimasu about kore, sore and are
• Reviewed useful expressions

Homework: No homework