Grade+2

**Click [|here] to see some Japanese children who go to Abacus school as they try to be Abacus National Champions in Japan! **
 * Welcome to 2nd Grade Japanese Class! **

We will be working on our numbers 1-100, writing and reading them using Chinese characters called Kanji. Here is a great chant/song to help us remember them! media type="custom" key="7131317" align="center"



We have been studying Butterflies and Frogs along with reviewing our Japanese from grades Kindergarden and 1. Check out the songs that we have learned! media type="custom" key="10838705"

 [|Origami jumping frog] [|Origami butterfly]


 * Here is our Butterfly Color Word Cloud. Can you find the color words you know in it? **
 * [|Butterfly Word Cloud] **

Here is a great website to practice and play games to learn numbers, greetings, the Japanese alphabet; all things we will be working on in 2nd Grade Japanese this year! **[|Japanese practice]** We have been working hard to talk about what we do on a daily basis. We have been studying the day in the life of a second grade boy in Japan named Kentaro and we wrote a book about his daily routine and our own daily routines. Click [|Here] or on the picture below for a link to Kentaro's story: In the summer of 2009, Sessler Sensei spent a week in an elementary school in Japan. Check out what she observed 2nd graders in Japan doing each day in school:

February 3rd is "Setsubun" in Japan. media type="custom" key="12262978" align="center"

Using our numbers, we can also talk about the months fo the year. The symbol means "moon" and each month is said in Japanese by the number of "full moons" there have been in a year.media type="custom" key="7131329" align="left" media type="custom" key="7709165" width="80" height="80"


 * We have just begun to talk about how to describe our weather. Check out this short video below with weather terms and pictures from Japan **

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