March 23, 2010 A Block One Day

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 A Block One Day




JAPAN EXCHANGE:
The day began with Welcome Breakfast in room 110, which morphed into the first period class.
During 8th period (4th block) KJ guests went out to lunch at Café La Sera. Mrs. Estrada and Mr. Hermes joined us.
After school Asian-American Club had a meeting in room 110. Lalita and Alisa A. brought food from their father's restaurant. Payton students danced in various styles and taught dances to our guests.



JAPANESE 3 -- First period

1. All KJ-affiliated people (including Mr. Matsui and Ms. Yamazaki and Mr. Nozawa and Mr. Sekiguchi) and Payton personnel first lined up in hiragana/katakana order
2. All Kj and Payton personnel then lined up in alphabetical order
3. Sally C., Melisa C. and other students taught Cha Cha slide dance to KJ students, using video
4. Pictionary game, with Payton and KJ personnel on both teams, Team Yabai and Team Namako (sea slub) – Team Namako won
5. Whole group played Speed (Date) Friend, with KJ kids talking to five different Americans
6. Speed Write – 8 minutes to write, in Japanese or English, describing everything you remember about what happened in class today: people, clothes, food, events, etc.
7. Hot Seat – Esmeralda and Shou agreed to be interviewed by the group

Mr. Sekiguchi, Mr. Matsui, Ms. Yamazaki, and Mr. Nozawa observed, and sometimes participated.



Continuing to practice plain neg forms of verbs:

Ｇｒ．　ＩＩＩ：　　　しない、来ない（こない）
Ｇｒ．　ＩＩ：　　　　食べない、起きない（おきない）
Ｇｒ．　Ｉ： 　会わない（あわない）、立たない（たたない）、座らない（すわらない）、読まない（よまない）、とばない、書かない（かかない）、およがない、話さない（はなさない）

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JAPANESE 1 – Fifth period。

Work on hiragana puzzles for numbers and animals.

Then the following was projected on screen at the front of the class

Numbers（いっ）せん , にせん
さんぜん, よんせん
ごせん, ろくせん
ななせん , はっせん
きゅうせん, （いち）まん 10,000
にまん , さんまん
よんまん , ごまん
ろくまん, ななまん
はちまん , きゅうまん
じゅうまん＝ １００，０００
Katakana words: Sports
ベースボール, バレーボール, ゴルフ, サッカー,スポーツ
Katakana words: nations and capitols)
スリジャヤワルダナプラコッテ（city in Sri Lanka）
アルゼンチン,ドイツ,アメリカ,イギリス

Katakana words: food
ラーメン,パイナップル,ドーナツ,スパゲッティー,ピザ

Counting times (o’clock), months, days of week, ages –
Sing hiragana/katakana song
Count by 7’s

じ　－　時　–　Ｏ－ｃｌｏｃｋ, a point in time
じかん　－　Ｈｏｕｒ　（ｄｕｒａｔｉｏｎ）an amount of time

Homework:



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JAPANESE 2 Sixth Period


Crossword puzzles with clues in Japanese, answers in English – lots of katakana.

Three people did Hot Seat: Mr. Sekiguchi, Nicole R., and Yuka K. sat and answered questions.


American students should be able to write one question that you can ask our guests　for each of these categories：
おきゃくさま　の
１． 好きな　うた・おんがく
２． 好きな　えいが
３． ことわざ
４． 食べもの
５． 日本　の　でんせつ
６． ともだち　に　ついて
７． 好きな　どうぶつ
８． こうこう　の　クラブ
９． テレビ　ばんぐみ
１０． ごかぞく


Try to do practice without help at first, but then you make look up what you don’t know in your text and your dictionary.



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Reminder: We all must be polite in the Japanese language classroom. Not only is it important in our lives in general – it is an essential part of Japanese culture. ください、おねがい　します、ありがとう、すみません　Are the most important words and phrases in Japanese.








JAPANESE 4 and AP – Seventh period

This class does not meet on Block One days.