November 2, 2016 -- Wednesday
平成２８年１１月２日（ふつか）　－－　すいようび

Opening of class session with formal greetings, verbs for exercise, and types of counting

                                                                   Years-old

                                                                   Years-in-school

                                          

                         Months

                                   

Songs:  “Umi” (ocean

)  traditional song with adjectives

                                           “The Hiragana Song” to famous American  melody, to teach order of hiragana for dictionary usage

                       

            Warm-up: Writing in hiragana of adjectives big, wide, numerous, blue

                                                   ひろい、おおきい、おおい、

あおい

                      

             Passing out outline forms and drawing rough form on the board

                                 

  Discussion in Japanese as students supply name, age, year in school, where imaginary person comes from,

                                           

nationality, and presentation of owned object

                                   

Students write sentences related to jointly-invented outline person

                                   

Handout about Iroha poem, plus handout of genkoyoshi special squared paper

                                   

Assignment is to write Iroha properly on squared paper, in color, with appropriate decoration  

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                                   Writing about imaginary person, on sheet with outline

                                   Iroha poem-writing assignment on squared paper

宿題　しゅくだい　　Homework:

Work on iroha writing project, to be handed in on Friday