A Happy New Year!

We are now at the beginning of a new year! It is interesting how an artificial construct like the New Year reinvigorates us with renewed enthusiasm and goals. However, I believe that it is important not to just freshly start from scratch but to also to take the past into consideration. Learning from the past is not just about reminiscence. It is important to come up with concrete steps to achieve your goals for the New Year. In other words, using your past experiences as a foundation, it is important to clearly establish what is necessary for the successful accomplishment of your goals. With persistent hard work, I am sure that all of you will have a bright future ahead.

Recovering lost class time after school cancellation

On 12/17, we were forced to cancel school due to snow. Since JLSP already operates with limited class time, we are making our best attempt to recover this lost time. To this end, we will be extending class time from 4 hours to 6 hours on 2 separate days in January as shown below. We hope that you will be able to accommodate to this revised schedule and will be able to provide lunch for your children on these days.

1/14 (Sat) and 1/21 (Sat): 4 hours –> 6 hours.

Due to the extended class time, we will be rescheduling ﾒsocial studiesﾓ for elementary school students to another date.

Revised schedule

Schedule for Kindergarten,Elementary,Middle School,Japanese Course,Adult Course, (Schedule for High school)
Class meeting 9:00-9:20 (9:00-9:20)
1st period 9:20-10:00 (9:20-10:05)
2nd period 10:05-10:45 (10:10-11:55)
Recess 10:45-11:00 (11:55-11:00)
3rd period 11:00-11:35 (11:00-11:40)
4th period 11:40-12:15 (11:45-12:25)
Lunch Break 12:15-12:45 (12:25-14:45)
5th period 12:45-13:20 (12:45-13:25)
6th period 13:25-14:00 (13:30-14:10)
Dismissal meeting 14:00-14:05 (14:10-14:15)

Kindergarten dismissal 13:45 Dismissal for all 14:30

Reading awards (The Yokozunas)

I am sure that the many books filled the hearts of the recipients with a wealth of courage, adventure, kindness, and consideration. I commend all recipients with the words Omedetou! (Congratulation!) and Ganbattane! (Good work!).

Japanese Language Course
2 (Pfau, Joseph)
Kindergarten
Middle (Fujiki, Lyn-3)
Middle (Hirose, Takachika-4)
Middle(Kato, Ema-1)
Middle (Goda, Kalina-2)
Middle (Pfau, Genevieve-1)
Upper (Sawada, Sara-2)
Elementary
1st grade (Yamazoe, Ririka-1)
1st grade (Saito, Sora-2)
2nd grade (Yoshhizumi, Ryu-2)
2nd grade (Fujiki, Yu-3)

Announcements Corner

Distribution of the events calendar for the 3rd trimester

We are distributing the events calendar for the 3rd trimester. Changes to the schedule are in large font and are bolded. We ask everyone to please carefully look over the new schedule.

Cancellation of Daifuku Sales (Apology)

We have decided to cancel the Daifuku sales event that was originally planned for 12/17 (cancelled due to snow). We sincerely apologize to those who had signed up to purchase the Daifukus. Due to their limited shelf life, the Daifukus needed to be used immediately. We are not planning on another Daifuku sales event this year and apologize to those who were looking forward to buying the Daifukus. ﾐ Division of General Affairs

From the Year Book committee

We are now accepting requests for purchase of the JLSP Year Book. We thank those who signed up early to reserve their copy. We have another 50 copies of the Year Book to reach our sales goal for the year. For those who have yet to reserve their copy, there is still time to sign up. If you would like to purchase a Year Book using a personal check, please deliver it to the Faculty Administration Room in person.

Tuition invoice

We expect to deliver the invoice to all on either 1/6 or 1/7.