Throughout 2018 we have had a special visitor at our kindy called Mrs Yuka, she has taught us lots of wonderful and valuable things about Japan, language and Japanese culture. We have made sushi, origami stars, counted to 10 in Japanese (ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, nana shichi, hachi, ku, juu), said hello and goodbye and now…we can write our names in Japanese characters.
The first challenge was that we could show Mrs Yuka how to write our names in English and then have a go at copying the lines and marks of our name that had been written in Japanese.
It was very tricky but we didn’t give up and looked at each symbol closely to work out the individual parts that made it and then copied these underneath.
Many of us were very fascinated by the fact that our Japanese name didn’t have the same number of letters as our English name.
Thank you Mrs Yuka for all you have taught us this year! We have loved every minute of it.
