March 17, 2020 -- Tuesday          Happy St. Patrick's Day!
　　　　　　　　　　　　　パトリック聖人の日おめでとう

令和二年三月十七日　－－　火曜日　　　Second day of the hiatus

Hi Everyone,
Please check Skyward, your email, and this blog every day.  I hope all of you now have the messages I sent, including the kanji sheets for numbers and for Nakama Chapters 4-12.
How was yesterday?  I hope it was not too confusing or stressful.  I thought about you a lot and wondered if you were watching TV or playing video games, or cooking, or reading.  Staying home can be hard, but it can also be peaceful.  And you can FaceTime your friends!
I miss you!
キメル先生より

Have you started working on your daily sentences-with-images yet.  If not, please start.  Each day that you do some writing and reading of Japanese will be good.  The assignment is to write only 5 sentences per day and save them, with the image, in the same document.

Here is a light-hearted culture note that I found.  読んで下さい。楽しんで下さい。Please read and enjoy.  If you feel like it, draw me a picture of your idea of an amabie, the yokai that Japanese folkloric tradition tells us will fix epidemics.  Drawing the photo is supposed to keep you safe!

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2020/03/13/amabie-japanese-epidemic-yokai/#more-47852

If you draw it and bring it to school after we get back together, I will enjoy it and share it with others, if you want me to.


Japanese 3-4

こんにち　は、みなさん。おげんき　です　か。

I sent you all regular email yesterday, and I hope you've seen it.

Please work on your daily 5 sentences, with an image the is related to Chapter 8 of Nakama.  Try to use as many of the kanji and vocabulary from Chapter 8 as possible. If you like, you can make them funny and silly.

Example: 
はるやすみ　に　あまび　は　ひこうき　で　デパート　に　行きました。
During the spring vacation, the amabie-yokai went to the department store by plane.

Here are the kanji you should practice today.  Write each one 5 times. 下の漢字（かんじ）を　５　Ｘ　書いて　下さい。 Try to use correct stroke order.

前　まえ　　　　　　　　　　後ろ　　うしろ
in front of/before                            in back of/after


右　みぎ　　　　　　　　　　左　　　ひだり
right                                                left


新しい　あたらしい　　　　　古い　　ふるい
new                                                 old



宿題　　しゅくだい　　　Homework

1.   Find an image and write the 5 sentences.
2.   Practice writing the 漢字 kanji above
3.   (optional)  Draw a picture of the Amabie-yokai.




Japanese 5-6

こんにち　は、みなさん。お元気です　か。

Please work on your daily 5 sentences, with an image the is related to Chapter 10 of Nakama.  Try to use as many of the 漢字 and vocabulary from Chapter 10 as possible. If you like, you can make them funny and silly.

Example: 

友達　の　いもうとさん　は　せ　が　高い　です。お名前　は　あまび　ですよ。
(My) friend's younger sister is tall.  (Her) name is Amabie!


Here are the kanji you should practice today.  Write each kanji 5 times.  漢字を五回書いて下さい。Try to use correct stroke order.

男の子　おとこ　の　こ　　　女の人　おんな　の　ひと
boy (man + child)                              woman (woman + person)

紙　　かみ　　　　　　　　　入れる　　いれる           入る　　はいる
paper   　　　　　　　　　　　to put something into...       to enter                                         

朝　　あさ　　　　　　　　　今晩　　　こんばん
morning                                          this evening (now + night)



宿題　　しゅくだい　　　Homework

1.   Find an image and write the 5 sentences.
2.   Practice writing the　上の漢字 を書いて下さい。
3.   (optional)  Draw a picture of the Amabie-yokai.