Hi everybody in Japan Land!
I’m so sorry I have missed 3 weeks of Japanese, but I was very very sick with a nasty bout of Glandular Fever. However, I am feeling lots better and had a great first day back at school today, so am looking forward to Japanese next week and hopefully picking up right where we left off!
See you soon! 
And the winner of McDonald Sensei’s Term One Popstick challenge, with a total of 118 popsticks is………
Congratulations to Room 12 for all you hard effort this term, you will be receiving a special reward from me very soon!!
A very close second place goes to Mr Smith’s class with 100 popsticks, and third place to Mrs. Bennett’s Class with 93 popsticks. Well Done everybody! Remember, Term 2 is a whole new game!
I was most impressed with student work this term, I thought I would put up some snippets of some of them, enjoy!
On Monday of Week 10, Mrs. Shepherdson’s class, Mr Smith’s class and Pam / Miss McDonald’s class took part in some end of term sushi making. Well Done everybody for no sliced fingers!! Silly Sensei for slicing her own finger (ouch!) The sushi was delicious and everyone had a lot of fun Next term, my other 3 classes will get their turn! Enjoy the pictures
Well it’s the end of the term, and what a busy term it’s been! All my classes have settled in beautifully into Japanese and have learned a lot of new things, don’t forget everything over your 2 week break period! The popstick competition has finished, though I haven’t counted who the winner is yet – it will be announced next week, keep reading the blog to find out!
Don’t forget, next Monday I’m making sushi with Room 9, Room 8 and Room 13. If you haven’t given me $1 for ingredients yet, you can bring me the dollar next Monday. BUT if you don’t bring me a dollar by the time we make sushi, you don’t get to eat it! BRING $1!!
Thankyou everybody!
Thanks to all my year 6/7s and Mr. Berry’s 5s who completed and handed in their WANTED posters! I had alot of fun reading them, they are very clever! The standard of work was really high and I was very impressed and pleased when marking them. So thankyou everybody!
I shall take some pictures and upload them onto the blog soon.
Well Done to all my year 3/4/5s on your fantastic posters! They were of a very high standard and I am really impressed with how much knowledge you have picked up on Japan already!
They are now hanging beautifully in the Japanese room, and can I say how very impressed I am, that every student handed them up on time! There was no one I had to chase down and nag for it! That shows excellent organisation everybody, great work!
Minnasan Konnichiwa!
Well it’s halfway through the term now, and all my new Japanese students have settled in beautifully! Year 3/4/5 have finished a project this week all about Japan, and my year 6/7s are having fun creating their WANTED posters using the new adjectives we’ve been learning!
We’ve earned so many popsticks I’ve had to buy more from the shops TWICE!! So Well Done everyone, I really don’t know which class is in the lead at the moment, it could be very close!! I wonder which class shall be victorious!!??
Thanks for visiting everyone!!
Minnasan konnichiwa and yokosou!
Hello Everyone and Welcome Back to Japanese at Hawthorndene Primary 2012.
I hope you all had a happy, restfull and fun filled summer holiday and you are all excited about learning Japanese this year, I know I am!
A very special welcome to all our new students this year, Mrs Shepherdson’s and Mr Berry’s new year 5′s and this year we’ve extended Japanese also to Mr Smith’s and Mrs Bennets year 3′s and 4′s. I hope you all have a great time in your first year of Japanese, I know it’s going to be a great year
See you all in the Japanese Room!
Sayounara!
