Grades are up in Skyward

I just finished (I hope I didn't forget anything) everyone's grades in Skyward. I can change it manually by Sunday, so if you have any concerns or questions, let me know by the 31st!!! Shoot me an email (mbellini@alpine.k12.ut.us) or leave her a comment. I think leaving comments are better because some of your parents email end up going to my Spam folder.

Good job guys!!! I loved teaching all of you during first term!!!

And again, let's start term 2 with a positive mind and don't forget "NEVER GIVE UP"!!!! If you have any question, come and talk to me before school starts.

A1 A2 Japanese 1 10/29

Lesson

Hiragana Review
Hiragana everything Quiz


A1 watched Spirited Away
A2 watched Kiki's delivery service

Homework: Nothing

B2 Japanese 3/AP 10/28

Lesson

• Kanji Quiz
• Free talk using new grammar 「今週末、何をするつもりですか。」

BIII+つもり (Intend to do)

• Watched a movie

Homework: Japanese AP --> Vocab Quiz F
Japanese 3 --> Nothing

B1 Japanese 2 10/28

Lesson

• Reviewed for reading test (Kanji, speed and Katakana)
• Reviewed how to combine sentences with nouns, verbs and adjectives
• Gave exercises how to combine adjectives
• Watched movie

Homework: Finish adjectives exercises

A2 Japanese 1 10/27

Lesson

Because the thermostat was broken, we had class at Mr. Garlick's room

• Reviewed Hiragana
• Reviewed Vocabulary from Chapter 2
• Writing practice using Ch 2 vocabulary and Hiragana
• Reviewed Particles　は、か、ねえ
• New particle　の
• Reviewed　これ、それ、あれ
• New grammar　この、その、あの

Homework: Hiragana Quiz everything and turn in Hiragana Packet

A1 Japanese 1 10/27

Lesson

Because the classroom's thermostat was broken, we had class at the Media Center

• Reviewed Hiragana
• Hiragana Writing practice
• Reviewed Ch2 Vocabulary
• Reviewed これ、それ、あれ
• New Grammar この、その、あの
• Exercises using new grammar

Homework: Hiragana Everything Quiz and turn in Hiragana Packet

Japanese Club tomorrow

We are going to have our okonomiyaki Party tomorrow. If you bring friends, make sure they pay the $5 at the financial office or bring the money to me.

B2 Japanese 3/AP 10/26

Lesson

Since the classroom's thermostat was broken, we moved to another room

AP
Quiz Part E

Japanese 3
New verbs matching exercises

Jap3/AP

• Went through the verbs exercises
• Free Talk using BII+たい　or Nounがほしいです

「今年のゴールは何ですか」

• Chapter 6 of Japanese 3 book (日本の文化や音楽）
• Exercises regarding Japanese Culture

Homework: Kanji from Japanese 1 & 2 everything Quiz

B1 Japanese 2 10/26

Lesson

• Since the classroom thermostat was not working, we moved to another room
• Reviewed Base te
• Reviewed Adjectives
• Checked homework from adj. packet (exercises 6 to 10)
• New grammar (How to connect adjectives using くて＆で）
• Practiced reading

Homework: Reading test (yellow paper). If you have any question about the reading or if you want me to practice with you, please come before school and I can help you.

A1 & A2 Japanese 1 10/25

Lesson

• Reminded everyone about retakes and Japanese Club on Wednesday
• Talked about some strategies to learn and practice Hiragana
  
• Reviewed Hiragana in partners with flashcards
• Hiragana Karuta game
• Reviewed Chapter 2 Classroom Vocabulary

Homework: Bring your progress report signed by one of your parents.

Extra Credit Opportunity

The end of the term is just around the corner (5 more days) and I am willing to give 60 points of extra credit if you attend the Sports Festival sponsored by BYU. As I explained in class a couple of weeks ago, one of the holidays during this month in Japan is the Health and Sports Day where Japanese schools invite the parents to watch and support their kids playing some sports together.

This Sports Festival will be held at Kiwanis Park at 820 N 1100 E in Provo from 9:45 to 12pm. I will be there and I will write down your names.

BYU JAPAN CLUB

Presents

Undoukai – Sports Day

Come Join Us for a Day of Sports and Fun!

Pick your team: Green vs. Red vs. White vs. Blue

We’ll be Playing Games like Radio Taiso, Dodge Ball, Kibasen (Horse fight), Relay Race and Tsunahiki (Tug-of-War) etc.

Saturday, October 23^th

Kiwanis Park,

820 N 1100 E

9:30am – 12:00pm

*cancelled if it rains

B2 Japanese3/AP 10/22

Lesson


Japanese AP took Vocab Quiz D
Japanese 3 practiced the Kanji of Chapter 1

Together we reviewed Kanji from Japanese 2 and Japanese 3 Ch.1 Kanji

Watched Nausicaa

Homework: Japanese 3 (No homework, just check in skyward if you have any missing assignment and if you need to retake something)
Japanese AP -> Vocab Quiz E

B1 Japanese 2 10/22

Lesson

• Checked homework (Paragraph)
• Reviewed Base te
• Reviewed adjectives i and na
• Learned how to put the adjectives in a sentence using desu box and i box
• Practiced adjectives using the sentences from the packet (1-5)
• Reading practice

Homework: Finish the sentences from the adjectives packet (6-10)
Remember that the reading test will be next Thursday.

B2 Japanese3/AP 10/20

Lesson with sub

Japanese 3 --> Took proverbs Quiz
Japanese AP --> Took Vocab Quiz part C

Watched Nausicaa

Homework: Japanese 3--> Write 10 times ecah the Kanji of Chapter 1 from the book
Japanese AP --> Study for Vocab Quiz D

B1 Japanese 2 10/20

Lesson with sub

Watched Ponpoko and the students wrote 10 words they could understand from the movie

Homework: Write a pragraph about your daily activities using 5 verbs from the verbs list and connecting sentences using base te.

A1 A2 Japanese 1 10/21

Lesson with sub

Hiragana Quiz from ma-n
Watched movie and the students had to write 10 words they could understand from it

Announcements

• Extra credit opportunity of 60 points to attend BYU Sports Festival on Saturday from 9:45 to 12pm. Kiwanis Park 820 N 1100 E, Provo
• Japanese Club will be next Wednesday after school

Homework: Write a Hiragana chart in your notebook including "ten-ten" and "maru".

A1 A2 Japanese 1 10/19

Lesson

• Checked homework (Whole Hiragana packet)
• Explained the combination of Hiragana withや、ゆ、よ
• Corrected last Hiragana exercises(Page 30)
• Reading practice
• Hiragana game
• Chapter 2 (Eye test)みえますか？

Homework: Hiragana Quiz まーん

B2 Japanese 3/AP 10/18

Lesson

• Writing practice
• Free talk 秋休みに何をしましたか。
• Kanji review with Karuta game

Homework
AP --> Vocab Quiz [C]
3 --> Proverbs Quiz

B1 Japanese 2 10/18

Lesson

• Checked homework (Yellow exercises about Ichirou san)
• Reading practice
• Reviewed Base te
• Writing practice about Fall Break　あきやすみになにをしましたか。
• Oral practice

Homework: Practice reading for the reading practice that is going to be 10/28.

A1 A2 Japanese 1 10/13

Lesson

• Chapter 2 useful expressions
• New hiragana
• Exercises from packet P. 25-28
• Watched Mononoke Hime

Homework: Finish Hiragana Packet. Remember that each page is worth 10 points!!!!

B2 Japanese3/AP 10/12

Lesson

AP

• Quiz [B]

Japanese 3

• Proverbs exercises

Japanese3/AP

• Review of Kanji
• Corrected exercises from units 10,11,13,14,15
• Watched Film Festival's movies

Homework:ありません

B1 Japanese 2 10/12

Lesson

• Base te review
• Base te exercises
• Reading practice
• New grammar　い＆な Adjectives

Homework: Finish base te exercises (Write the time in the blanks)

How are you learning Japanese?

Please post here some of your learning ideas on Japanese vocabulary and hiragana. I've noticed that some of my Japanese 1 students are struggling trying to learn Hiragana and I would like to know how you guys are practicing learning it. Your learning style may help your classmates, so please post here!!!!

Japanese Club ideas

If you have any ideas of what you would like to do for Japanese Club, please post here!!!

Today we had a meeting with our Club presidency and some of the ideas for this month were:

1) Go to a Karate doojo to learn Karate for free from a real Karate's sensei (One of our Club representatives has a black belt)

2) Japanese Sports festival (Activities such as tsunahiki (tag of war), tamaire game, kibasen (cavalry battle), creative dance, and lots more)

3) Learn how to cook a Japanese food called okonomiyaki


For November
Talent show

For December
White elephant gift exchange

Extra Credit opportunity

The second Monday in October is a Japanese national holiday called Taiikunohi (Health and Sports Day) which commemorates the 1964 Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony held on October 10. Various sports events take place on this day, and traditional sports festivals called undoukai are held in many Japanese schools around this holiday. In undoukai, children are usually divided into two teams (red and white) and compete for their teams. Common events include tsunahiki (tag of war), tamaire game, kibasen (cavalry battle), creative dance, and lots more.

BYU is hosting an undoukai on October 23 from 10am to 12pm. All the local high schools have been invited to participate. It is a lot of fun and it is an excellent event to learn more about the Japanese Culture.

I will be there and those who attends this event will get 30 points of extra credit!

Don't miss this incredible opportunity!!!

A2 Japanese 1 10/11

Lesson

• Checked homework (Hiragana ま、み、む、め、も10 times)
• Reviewed Hiragana
• Hiragana Karuta game
• New　Hiragana　や、ゆ、よ
• Exercises from packet
  
• Reviewed Ch2 useful expressions
• Reviewed previous grammar MASU box and kudasai
  
• Watched movies from the World Language Competition
  

Homework: Ch. 2 useful expressions Quiz

A1 Japanese 1 10/11

Lesson

• Checked homework (Hiragana ま、み、む、め、も10 times and P.22 of Hiragana packet)
• Corrected P.22
• Reviewed Hiragana
• Hiragana Karuta game
• New　Hiragana　や、ゆ、よ
• Exercises from packet
  
• Reviewed Ch2 useful expressions
• Reviewed previous grammar MASU box and kudasai
  
• Finished watching Nihongo Dekimasu (kore, sore, are)

Homework: Ch. 2 useful expressions Quiz

B2 Japanese 3/AP 10/8

Lesson

Japanese AP

• Vocabulary [A] Quiz
• New grammar from Japanese 4
• Godan Base I+ れる
• Ichidan Base I+られる
• Irregular される・こられる
• Bte＋くださいませんか。
• Bte＋いただけませんか。

Japanese3

• Checked homework (kanji exercises units 10,11,13)
• Introduced proverbs
• Proverbs exercises

Together
Units 14,15 Kanji exercises


Homework: AP--> Vocabulary Quiz [B]
3 --> Kanji exercises units 14 &15

B1 Japanese 2 10/8

Lesson

• Checked homework (BII+tai, hoshii exercises)
• Since everyone did the homework, we watched "the cat returns"
• Corrected homework
• Reviewed BII+tai & hoshii grammar
• Watched BII+tai Nihongo Dekimasu

Homework: ありません

A2 Japanese 1 10/7

Lesson

• Checked homework (hiragana は、ひ、ふ、へ、ほ10 times)
• Reviewed Hiragana with words
• Hiragana Quiz たーほ
• New Hiraganaま、み、む、め、も
• Hiragana exercises
• Chapter 2 useful expressions
• New Grammar

Masu Box (masu, masen, mashita, masendeshita)
Verb + kudasai

• Watched mononoke hime for 10 minutes

Homework:Write ま、み、む、め、も10 times in your notebook
Check your Hiragana Quiz score on skyward later today and see if you have to retake it. You passed if you got 11 points. The retake is due Friday of next week!!!

A1 Japanese 1 10/7

Lesson

• Checked homework (hiragana は、ひ、ふ、へ、ほ10 times)
• Reviewed Hiragana with words
• Hiragana Quiz たーほ
• Watched mononoke hime for 10 minutes
• Chapter 2 useful expressions
• New Grammar

Masu Box (masu, masen, mashita, masendeshita)
Verb + kudasai

• New Hiraganaま、み、む、め、も

Homework:Write ま、み、む、め、も10 times in your notebook and p.22 on your Hiragana packet.
Check your Hiragana Quiz score on skyward later today and see if you have to retake it. You passed if you got 11 points. The retake is due Friday of next week!!!

B2 Japanese 3/AP 10/6

Lesson

• Kanji review
• Kanji Quiz (Units 5, 6,7,9)
• Restaurant Dialogue review
• In pairs, the students practiced the dialogue they created
• Dialogue presentation
• New Kanji (Units 10,11 and 13)

Homework
Japanese 3 ---> Finish Kanji exercises we started in class
Japanese AP --> Vocabulary Quiz (A)

B1 Japanese 2 10/6

Lesson

• Checked homework (2 sentences with たいand 2 more sentences withたくない)
• Verbs Review
• Verbs Quiz
• Reviewed previous grammar　

BII+たい　　BII＋たくない

• New grammar　

Noun+が＋ほしい
Noun+は＋ほしくない

• Since everyone did the homework, we watched The cat returns for 20 minutes
• New verbs (Some are just review)
  

りょこうをする、かいものをする、しょくじをする、スポーツをする、でんわをする、いく、かえる、くる、おきる、ねる、いる、ある

Homework: Exercises usingほしい、ほしくない、たい、たくない

Japanese Club Presidency Meeting

We'll be meeting with the Club presidency on Thursday during lunch to discuss about our next activity.

Those who are in the Club Presidency will have to attend this meeting.

Club Presidency

President Sho Oba

Japanese 1
Wei-Cheng Chen
Sebastian Pozgan

Japanese 2
Pryce Smith

Japanese 3
Jose Rubio
Jyai Sun

Japanese AP
Daniel Brown

A2 Japanese 1 10/5

Lesson

• Checked homework (HIragana な、に、ぬ、ね、の10 times and Ch2 useful expressions matching exercises)
• Reviewed Hiragana
• New Hiragana　は、ひ、ふ、へ、ほ、ば、び、ぶ、べ、ぼ、ぱ、ぴ、ぷ、ぺ、ぽ
• Since everyone did the homework we watched Mononoke Hime for 20 minutes
• Watched Nihongo Dekimasu (kore, sore, are) Skit 2, kore wa nani, Australian Japanese learner
  

Homework: Hiragana Quiz　（From た To ほ Hiragana Packet p.11-20）

A1 Japanese 1 10/5

• Lesson
• Checked homework (HIragana な、に、ぬ、ね、の10 times and Ch2 useful expressions matching exercises)
• Reviewed Hiragana
• New Hiragana　は、ひ、ふ、へ、ほ、ば、び、ぶ、べ、ぼ、ぱ、ぴ、ぷ、ぺ、ぽ
• Since everyone did the homework we watched Mononoke Hime for 20 minutes
• Watched Nihongo Dekimasu (kore, sore, are) Skit 2

Homework: Hiragana Quiz　（From た To ほ Hiragana Packet p.11-20）

B2 Japanese 3/AP 10/4

Lesson

• Checked homework (Kanji exercises units 7 and 9)
• Reviewed Kanji
• Talked about the Movie Assignment for 3rd term (World Language Competition)
• New Vocabulary from white packet (Restaurant)
• New counter (General counter 個（こ）
• In pairs, the student started creating a restaurant dialogue using the vocabulary reviewed in class. Next class the students will have to perform the dialogue created.

Homework: Units 5, 6, 7 and 9 Kanji Quiz

B1 Japanese 2 10/4

Lesson

• Gave notebooks back to everyone
• Talked briefly about some sentences common mistakes I found
  
• Reviewed Base te
• Finished watching Nihongo Dekimasu (Bteもいいですか）
• Reviewed verbs
• Today's verbs

かく To write
ふとる To gain weight, to be fat
みる To look, see, watch
としをとる To get old
やせる To lose weight
タイプする To type

• New Grammar

BII+たい
BII+たくない

• Writing practice

2 sentences using BII+たい and 2 more sentences using BII+たくない

Homework: Verbs Quiz (Study the 20 verbs you added to your verbs vocabulary list)
You will have to know the meaning and the verb types.

A2 Japanese 1 10/1

Lesson

• Review for the test
• Chapter 1 test
• New Hiraganaな、に、ぬ、ね、の
• Hiragana exercises from the packet
• Chapter 2 useful expressions exercises
• Nihongo Dekimasu (Only skit 1)

Homework: Hiragana な、に、ぬ、ね、の10 times in your notebook and finish the exercises of Chapter 2 given in class today.

A1 Japanese 1 10/1

Lesson

Review for the test
Chapter 1 test
New Hiraganaな、に、ぬ、ね、の
Chapter 2 useful expressions exercises
Nihongo Dekimasu (skit 1, kore wa nani and learned about Japanese houses)

Homework: Hiragana な、に、ぬ、ね、の10 times in your notebook and finish the exercises of Chapter 2 given in class today.