p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Tahoma} Rae, i was assigned to review your lesson plan. It was well written lesson plan, so I, who have never seen any lesson plans for elementary school students, still could easily understand what your students could learn from it. I love how you combined all visual, audio, kinetic into your lesson plan. I might suggest you to use 'Te-asobi'*, songs with kinetic motions**, there are many youtube videos that Japanese kindergartens are using. Furthermore, in order for your students to improve Critical Thinking skills, I might suggest you to ask 'why' questions here and there. For example, before showing students a map of Japan, ask 'what do you think that most of Japanese eat?' and 'why?' Before or after showing students how to do origami, you might ask them again why did Japanese invent this origami?' You can show students some shintoism rituals and how the origami was originally used, now how they make a wish on thousand cranes. (you might check Japan Foundation's 'Nihongo library' for these visuals).
*''Te-asobi': Japanese 'close, open, clap hands and up/down' are repeated;
**'Songs w/action':Japanese 'left, right, front, back" are repeated.probably you can jump with your students?
[font='Cambria','serif'][/font]Harue, thank you very much for your review and helpful information, but I am afraid that you are not my assigned reviewer. Please check the topic “Seminar Final Project Review List” under “UTLA Spring 2011” forum. As far as I know, you need to review Keo and Shah’s lesson plans:
Keo, Davy korb, Ronald & Sakuma, Harue & Winkler, Robin Shah, Monica Bacon, Carla & Sakuma, Harue
Although I could not attach my Power Point file when I posted draft lesson plan and I did not get reviews from two assigned colleagues, Slyvia Cervantes-Wagner and Rudy Meza, I will mail my curriculum project and final essay to meet the deadline for the seminar requirements. By the way, I am not from LAUSD and I do not need USCCEUs at this time. Thank you!
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