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Here is another favorite Cartoon Character named "Chibi Maruko". "Chibi" means "small" and this is the story of a little sister who at home and school has to "figure out" things for herself, even when things get a little tough! たのしんで！Enjoy!



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 * We have begun our study of Biomes beginning with the Polar unit. Check out these polar animal origami figures you can fold below. Click on the picture to get the Origami folding instructions: **

Or, go directly to the website [|here]

Here are some videos to help us learn the Hiragana alphabet characters and some words we can spell and say with them! ** あいうえお ** media type="custom" key="20995938" align="center"
 * We love Hiragana! ひらがな　だいすき！ **

** かきくけこ ** media type="custom" key="20995908" ** さしすせそ ** media type="custom" key="20995920" ** たちつてと ** media type="custom" key="20995898" We are working really hard to learn all our Hiragana characters! Click on this link to see the Hiragana Alphabet with stroke order practice like you see below: [|click here]




 * We have just begun our study of different biomes in Japanese class, beginning with the polar regions. Check out this fun video that helps us learn how to describe objects, in this case different penguins, along with some alphabet characters **.[|Pa, Pi, Pu, Pe....Pengin]

**We are currently studying "biomes" in 3rd Grade Japanese. Here is a traditional song from Japan, about the ocean, a very important resource and biome to Japan. Can you recognize many of the words in this song? **

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**Here are the Kanji Characters that we are working on as we study different Biomes and the animals that live there:**

**Mountain Ocean/Sea Forest River** <span style="color: #ac2620; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">

[|Japanese practice]
 * <span style="color: #ac2620; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Here is a great website to practice and play games to learn numbers, greetings, the Japanese alphabet, etc .**

<span style="color: #cc19cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">A few more places to practice our Japanese characters: <span style="color: #cc19cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|Hiragana chart] <span style="color: #cc19cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">[|Kid's Web Japan] ==

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Check out this great New Year's in Japan website by Maloney Magnet school in Conneticut! They study Japanese just like we do!

Celebrate New Year's like they do in Japan!

[|Click on this link to work with an interactive Hiragana Chart] ==

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