Sunday, January 10, 2010

Club Pictures

Thanks for all that came. It was a blast!!! I am sorry for taking so much time to show you guys. Since the blog does not allow lots of pictures to be uploaded, I have uploaded everything using Flickr.

Please check this out.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellinisensei/sets/

End of the term and extra credit

こんばんは、

あけましておめでといございます!!!!

WinterBreak,なにをしましたか?

I am glad that I could make my blog work again, however the blog still does not work at school. I talked to the IT guy in our school and he does not know why. In order to update the blog at school, I have to sign in at blogger.com and this site does not work anymore. If anyone knows how to make it work, PLEASE let me know. Until then, I'll have to update at home.

As you may know, my son had a surgery on Thursday at Primary Children's Hospital. It was detected he had Cholesteatoma on his right ear that is a cyst that grew between the ear drum and the bones. Before the surgery, he could hear about 50% and now after removing 3 ear bones it seems it got worse, but we don't know exactly the percentage he can currently hear. My son sad is kind of weird now, but he doesn't know how to explain. In 6 months he is going to have another surgery and hopefully the doctor will try to reconstruct some of the bones removed.



My life has been crazy, so as you may have noticed already, I haven't given the extra credit for everyone. I will stay until late at school tomorrow, so please check your grades tomorrow night. Tuesday will be the last day for me to change your grades. As I told you in class before, no more retakes allowed. Friday was the last day. I still can accept some late homework and that's all.

Thanks for all your patient. I am just glad that I love my job. Even though I feel exhausted every morning, I still can wake up and go to work. It's everything because you guys!!!

One more semester and we are done!!!!! Thanks for all your hard work!!! This semester will be lots of fun, specially because of our World Language Week that will be held in February. Do your best so that you can get the cash prizes. We are giving almost $1000 of cash prizes on that week. Japanese has been always in the top 3 among all the other languages, but I really believe we can win this time!!!!

がんばってください!!!(Hang in there!!)

Saturday, January 9, 2010

1/8 A Day

Japanese 3

Talked to some students about make up work
Kanji Bingo game (Kanji from chapters 1 & 2)
The students got in groups for the video project

しゅくだい:ありません


Japanese 2

Kanji bingo game (Kanji from Ch. 1, 2 & 3)
Watched Ponyo

しゅくだい:ありません

Thursday, January 7, 2010

1/6 A Day

Japanese 3

Test
Reviewed Kanji learned in Japanese 3
Writing Practice
Listened to dialogue again
Presentation by Hana chan

しゅくだい:Bring written ideas for the movie competition (3rd Term Project)

Japanese 2

Verbs Quiz
Gave writing back and talked about some common mistakes
Reviewed Base II with verbs cards
Reviewed Base te
New grammar BaseTeもかまいません
          Baseteはいけません
Writing practice using new grammar

しゅくだい:Bring written ideas for the movie competition (3rd Term Project)

1/5 B Day

Japanese 4

Presentation by Oba san and Wells san
Speaking warm up (冬休みに何をしましたか)
Reviewed Passive forms
Speaking activity using passive forms (ask questions to each other)

しゅくだい:ありません

Japanese 1

Speaking warm up Happy New Year in Japanese あけましておめでとうございます
Presentation by Angela san and Taylor san
New grammar (grades in school)
Reviewed Family terms
Speaking practice (Ask classmates about their families)

しゅくだい:アーホ 10 times each

ESL

Reviewed past regular "ed" rules
Discussion about Christmas and New Years in Mexico, Equador and US
Listening practice (song I gotta feeling)
Writing practice (What did you do during winter break) using past tense

1/4 A Day

Japanese 3

Test review
Listening practice (Dialogue)

しゅくだい:Chapter 2 test

Japanese 2

Presentation by Davidson san
Review verbs from verbs list
Writing practice about new year resolution (Use BII+たい and ほしい)

しゅくだい:Verbs Quiz

12/22 B Day

Christmas caroling around the school

12/21 A Day

Christmas caroling around the school

12/18 B Day

Japanese 4/AP

  • Presentation
  • Collected homework
  • Practice Christmas songs
  • Corrected homework
  • Reviewed Kanji from Japanese 3
Japanese 1

  • Collected homework
  • New Katakana ハ、ヒ、フ、ヘ、ホ
  • Review Family terms
  • Presentation


ESL

  • Learned rules for regular -ed
  • Listening practice
  • Presentation
  • Writing practice

12/17 A Day

Bellini sensei was absent

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

12/16 B Day

Japanese 4/AP

  • Practice Christmas songs
  • Speaking activity
  • New grammar のために

しゅくだい:Exercises using Japanese holidays

Japanese 1

  • Presentations by Kirkham san and Gau san
  • Reviewed counters with ball game
  • Practice Christmas songs

しゅくだい:Finish writing about family including counters (people and age)

ESL

  • Reading test
  • Presentation
  • Watched Princess Mononoke while they were taking the test in the hall

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Japanese Club Presidency Meeting

Those who are in the Japanese Club Presidency, we are having a brief meeting during lunch just to discuss the final details for our Christmas Party on Thursday. Please come!!!

12/15 A Day

Japanese 3

  • Checked homework (Review of Chapter 2)
  • Presentations by Pevny san & Rookstool san
  • Review of the whole Chapter2
  • Kanji Practice
  • Practiced Christmas songs

しゅくだい: Chapter 2 テスト
Presentations by Whiteさん & Paulinaさん


Japanese 2

  • New Grammar (Wear verbs from Chapter 3)
  • Verbs list
  • Watched Nihongo Dekimasu (Japanese High School Students)
  • Practiced Christmas Songs

しゅくだい:ありません
Presentation by Lewisさん

Monday, December 14, 2009

Reminder about Japanese Club

December 17th (THU) on A Day from 2:30pm. Bring your $2 and white elephant gift. If you don't bring $2, you cannot participate this time.

The white elephant gift has to be around $5.

We are going to eat KFC, do games, watch some Japanese stuff and exchange gifts.

Lone Peak students are going to be with us too!!!!

12/14 B Day

Japanese 4/AP

  • Checked homework and corrected passive exercises
  • Practiced some Christmas songs

しゅくだい:Presentation by Howard san

Japanese 1

  • Presentations by Andersen san, Bown san & Fraser san
  • Practiced some Christmas songs

しゅくだい:Presentations by Kirkham san and Gau san

ESL

  • Checked all the packets used so far
  • Gave the test back
  • Practiced reading from the test
  • High intermediate ---> Writing about April's Fool

Homework: Only for High Intermediate. Finish writing.

Friday, December 11, 2009

12/11 A Day

Japanese 3

  • Checked homework (Vocab List)
  • Corrected homework
  • Presentations by Walker san & Crawley san
  • Handed in Chapter 2 review

しゅくだい:Chapter 2 review
      Presentations by Pevny san & Rookstool san

Japanese 2

  • Reviewed for the reading test
  • Reading test
  • Watched movies from World Language Week

しゅくだい:ありません
   Presentation by Larson san

Thursday, December 10, 2009

12/10 B Day

Japanese 4/AP

  • Culture lesson from Kina in Japanese
  • Presentation by Kelly kun

しゅくだい:Finish Passive exercises
       Presentation by Morse san


Japanese 1

  • Family terms Quiz
  • Watched a movie

しゅくだい: Presentations by Bownさん、Fraserさん、Andersenさん & Gustafsonさん。



ESL

  • Final Test
  • Watched a movie

No homework

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Announcement for those taking B2 and B3 tomorrow

I forgot to announce in class yesterday, but tomorrow I have an ESL training meeting in the District Office during part of B2 and B3.

Japanese 1(B2) students don't forget to study for your family terms Quiz and ESL (B3) students don't forget to study for your final test!!!

12/9 A Day

Japanese 3


  • Presentations by Lye san, Lyons san and Warnick san
  • Reviewed Grammar
  • Reviewed of the whole chapter with Listening practice
  • Handed Vocabulary List in


しゅくだい:Write the meaning of each word on the list. Please refer to the back of your book and also P. 65, 66.

I know that it is a time consuming task to look up words in the dictionary, but this is also a Japanese Language practice. When you look up words in the Japanese dictionary, you review the Japanese alphabet order.

Next class' presentations are Walker san and Crawley san.

Japanese 2



  • Presentations by Glenn san and Paskett san
  • Kanji review (Chapter 1, 2 and 3)
  • Pop Quiz (Those who got full points got 5 points of extra credit)
  • Listening Practice (Fill in the blanks)
  • Practiced for reading test

しゅくだい:Reading test. Read the paper we went over today (yellow). Make sure you practice reading over and over again. If you don't show fluency in your reading, you are not going to get full points.

Next class presentation is Cooper san.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

12/8 B Day

Japanese 4/AP

  • Reviewed Kanji
  • Kanji Quiz Ch 2
  • Reviewed previous grammar (Passive form)

しゅくだい:ありません
  Presentation by Shaeferさん


Japanese 1

  • Left for Christmas Assembly
  • Presentation by Fletcher san and Payne san
  • Reviewed family terms with family tree
  • Writing time using ingroup terms

しゅくだい:Family Terms Quiz (In-group & Out-Group)
       Finish writing about your family at home (Make sure you include ages, people counters and everyone’s names in the writing) 
Presentation by Bown san and Fraser san


ESL

  • Presentations by Oscar, Miguel and Alvaro
  • Review of term 1 & 2
  • Reading "What matters the most"

Homework: Test of term 1 & 2