At Alfredton, Japanese is taught to all of our students. All children learn Japanese for one hour each week.

At present, the Prep and Grade 1 children have been reading , and studying the names of fruits and vegetables. We have also been learning Deguchi Sensei's "Fruit and Vegie Rock and Roll". We have also learnt animal words, numbers and colours.

Grade 2 have been learning the names of classroom objects and will soon be reading

Grade 3 and 4 children have been learning about time, telling the time, days of the week, months of the year, birthdays and special events. We've also been playing

Grade 5 students have just finished a unit on "Shopping", where they set up their own shops, and had a chance to be both the customer, and the shopkeeper. As present we are reading Sadako, and 1,000 Paper Cranes", and making cranes by the hundred, as we remember Peace Day.