Japanese 日本語 (nihongo)

Ngunnawal students are working very hard on their Japanese. All year levels celebrated Japanese Boy’s Day or Children’s Day, in class, in week 3 (May 5). Students created some origami activities making a variety of koinobori (carp kites) which have really brightened up the Japanese room! We are all looking forward to using calligraphy again later this term.

Kindergarten: 

Kindergarten students have been very busy this year learning colours, numbers and animals in Japanese. They are becoming experts at singing our songs and listening for clues to understand Japanese. 

Year 1 and Year 2:  

Students are becoming experts at reading and using clues to  understand stories in Japanese. They are working on comic strip stories following the pattern of a story we know.

Year 3 and Year 4: 

Students have learnt a lot about school life in Japan. At the moment they are busy writing some letters introducing themselves and explaining about their school life to a pretend pen pal. 

Year 5 and Year 6: 

Students have been looking at Japanese traditional stories. They are currently writing some very creative bilingual fairy tale style stories of their own.

がんばってください ganbatte kudasai (Do your best)

フィオナ 先生 (Fiona Sensei)