2023 Cultural activities workshop: Stages 2 / 3 / 4

Agenda:

9:15 – 9.30 Registration

9.30 – 9.40 Welcome/Introduction

9.40 – 10.10 Session 1:  Food focused lessons – Megumi Mamone

How would you create and plan a dango workshop for your Japanese class? We will be sharing teaching ideas and resources during the workshop such as pre-lesson strategies and activities, workshop lesson ideas, and collecting feedback from students. Teachers will collaborate to make and share a lesson plan, which will be distributed to participants after the workshop. Yes, we will 団子の味見 at the end of the workshop!

Please note, this workshop will not be a hands on dango making workshop, we will be focusing on how to deliver a hands on workshop to students.

10.10 – 10:40 Session 2:  Origami cards – Harumi Hayakawa

Every student is excited about making origami, but there are always students who have no idea what to do. In this workshop, you will learn how to make fun and cute cards, and how to wrap a present using simple origami techniques. Even those who have never made origami can enjoy it. You don’t need to spend much time to prepare for these. All you need are photocopy papers, envelopes, ribbons, scissors, and drawing equipment. These origami works allow teachers to support students in exploring their creativity.

10.40 – 11:00 Morning Tea

11:00 – 12:00 Session 3 – Around Japan with realia and shuwa – Katy Gilles

In this hands-on workshop, you will create your own calico and felt map of Japan to take home for your classroom. We will learn to use the shuwa for how to get about in Japan and there will be a practical interactive demonstration of how to set up a classroom with rail pass stamping stations and the conversations to have at them. You will take home the 10 week program and have ideas / patterns of how to create the simple realia for each station with felt finger puppets of Tokyo Tower and Mt Fuji etc that children of all ages love to use as they talk in Japanese. We will then have a look at how to create some resources for kamishibai and take home 14 kamishibai stories in Japanese and English with ideas for how to create realia for storytelling.

12.00 – 13.00 Session 4 – Furoshiki Workshop Information Session –  Japan Foundation

The Japan Foundation will introduce our face-to-face Centre Visits and online furoshiki workshop programs for schools. The session will include a demonstration of a furoshiki workshop and participants will have an opportunity to tie objects using furoshiki. The presenter will introduce a brief history of furoshiki in Japan and Japanese traditional lucky symbols. Then the participants will practice how to tie a mamusubi knot followed by a hands-on session making furoshiki bags to wrap a laptop, watermelon, lunch box and water bottle. The furoshiki and the other items will be provided to participants for this workshop.

13.00 – 13.40 Lunch

13.40 – 14.40 Session 5 – Practical resource and lesson sharing 

We ask you to bring to the workshop a cultural practical hands-on activity to share around for participants to collaborate and learn ideas from one another.

14.40 Evaluation and closing