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Japanese Words that are Japanese Oriented, from Chinese and Other languages

In Japanese class, students learned word origin. Mainly, there are three origins in Japanese words; Japan oriented, from...
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Newspaper and Memories in Childhood

As I wrote a few days ago, I discussed media in class at school. The first mass-media they learn is newspapers. It seems...
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Social Studies of 5th Grade: Media

Fifth graders at elementary schools learn “media and information technology” in social studies. Though media refers to w...
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A Japanese Game: Look this way (あっちむいてほい)

In the English club at school, I played "Look this way!" with students. This is あっちむいてほい in Japanese and all Japanese pe...
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Memories Working at an Eikaiwa School

When I was in graduate school, I used to work at an Eikaiwa school. I had a university student who wanted to study abroa...
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Readers and Resolution Enhancement 

I still remember the emotion the first time I felt when I started writing this blog. It was how little I could express m...
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Teaching Home Economics

Since I am a fifth grade homeroom teacher, there is a chance to teach home economics to students though I do not have to...
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Buying New Guitar Scores

These days I try to practice easy pieces of guitar since I gradually get used to reading music scores. The more I read, ...
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Not Be Able to Take an Exam

On Sunday, I was planning to take an exam on Japanese History 2nd grade. Unfortunately, however, I could not make it, du...
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School Play/ Presentation on Learning

There will be a school play day soon at school I work. It is called 学習発表会・音楽発表会 in Japanese and I looked for a words to ...