Term 4 Progress in Japanese

PLC students discovered a Japanese folk tale called Momotaro: The Peach Boy. Students were exposed to the story of Momotaro and how to write and say names of each character. After a few lessons students were able to re-tell the story using some Japanese key words. At the end of the unit, students played the role of the story characters and were able to introduce the characters' names in Japanese. As a culture and craft activity, students created the Momotaro headband as shown in one of the pictures. In Japan, this type of headband is worn on multiple occasions as it generally represents perseverance, courage and effort.  

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SLC students learned about Days of the Week with the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in Japanese. Students learned a Days of the Week song in Japanese, and sang the song at the start of every lesson as a warm up. Students learnt the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in Japanese by watching the story video. Students were able to identify some key words in Japanese while watching. As the end of the topic activity, students created an Origami mini book. In the mini book, students wrote 7 Days of the Week in Japanese and the iconic scenes from The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It was great to see some excellent Japanese writing and creative work during the mini book making sessions. 

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CLC students explored one of the Japanese phonetic lettering systems called Hiragana. Students have almost learnt all of the 46 Hiragana characters along with memory clues. Each lesson students learn 5 Hiragana characters and practice their recognition, reading and writing skills.  Students had a different variety of activities each week to enhance these skills including Matching cards, Play Dough Activity, Bingo and more.  
Apart from learning our main topic: Hiragana Character, students have been practicing to sing Jingle Bells in Japanese. CLC students have been showing great dedication to learning the song and have built their confidence of singing in Japanese. This will be performed at the School Concert on Wednesday, 7 December.  

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YYLC students have learnt how to use the two sentence patterns to say there is/are in Japanese. Firstly, students start this topic by understanding the meaning of Animate things and Inanimate things. Then students learned two sentence structures along with 5 animal words and 6 stationery words. Students practiced using them by working on some writing, reading, and listening activities. Grade 4 and 5 students made a video of themselves saying these sentences. In Week 9, students made some Origami Christmas Ornaments to decorate the school.
Grade 4 students made Love Hearts. Grade 5 students made Christmas Trees. Grade 6 students made Ninja Stars.