Today I worked individually with the same year 12 student that I worked with last week. I decided to do oral Japanese exercises with him as he said that was the area he is weakest it. Its hard to speak slowly and clearly so that it is easier for him to understand but he seemed to understand better as we went along.
I also attended a year 9 class which I hadn't been in before so I introduced myself and they asked me a few questions. I did hiragana flash cards with them and wrote the answers to their hiragana quiz on the board so they could mark their answers. While Ms. Kevern was teaching them the new hiragana I walked around and checked everyone's homework. I was active throughout the whole class so I gained good experience.
During the non-contact periods and lunch time today I typed out the year 10 kanji then used that to create A4 kanji flash cards that can be used like how I used the hiragana ones earlier today (I will post photos when they are completed). I started to type out the readings and examples of the kanji that i will paste onto the back of the A4 kanji and finally laminate. However, as there are 74 kanji it will take me a couple more hours to type up the rest of the readings so I will complete that in my own time.
Day Four 26/03/2010
Today was a pretty full on day as Amara (my work place supervisor) and six students are leaving for Japan tomorrow for just over two weeks.
The most important thing I did today was interview the year ten class on video. When interviewing the students who are going to Japan tomorrow I asked questions such as: What do you wish to learn in Japan? Where do you want to visit the most? (in Japanese) etc etc. There wasn't so difficult except I wasn't thrilled about being on video. Also, I had to translate most questions into English for the year ten students and most answered in English.
I also marked year nine students books and checked their progress in the hiragana drills. I felt bad having to tell Amara on a couple of students that had done little or no work but I guess that is something I will have to get used to!
Today was a very long day as I worked through the whole lunch period helping the students going to Japan organize the 1000 cranes that have been folded so they can bring them to Japan with them. I found myself getting a little frustrated as the kids didn't want to stay inside during their last lunch period before they leave so they weren't really doing what I asked. In the end we got everything done though.
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