{"id":4815,"date":"2018-08-17T15:14:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlsp.us\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2018-08-17T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:18:13","slug":"smile-vol-8-august-18-2018-h30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/?p=4815","title":{"rendered":"SMILE Vol. 8 August 18, 2018 (H30)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sixty-Two Days of Summer Vacation Has Ended. Let\u2019s Get a Fresh Start!<\/h1>\n

\u201cEach student will grow and be more matured when you return to school in two months!\u201d This is what I wrote in the last edition of \u201cSmile (Vol. 7)\u201d issued on June 16. During the summer, a number of life threatening disasters were reported almost everyday, including the torrential rain and landslides in western Japan, severe damages caused by one typhoon after another, extreme heat wave and record-breaking high temperatures in Japan, etc. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who were affected by these frightening events.
\nEven here in the Philadelphia area, our smartphones were continuously delivering flood warnings and emergency alerts these past few weeks. I hope all students and their families remained safe.
\nThe long summer vacation is over, and laughters and giggle have returned to Friends\u2019 Central. Did you have a productive summer? Were you able to achieve the goals you established prior to the summer? Did you have a healthy summer? And did you complete all homework? I bet everyone is fine.
\nThe second semester is being started. I hope you are willing to continue to challenge yourself to accomplish your new goals. I look forward to seeing you grow further!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

New Class Structure: Two Classrooms in Elementary 2nd Grade<\/h2>\n

As we mentioned before, there has been two classrooms in elementary 2nd grade. Due to relocation of some families, here is an updated list of student enrollment:<\/p>\n

As of August 18,
\nKindergarten: Second Year (18) and Third Year (21)
\nElementary: 1st (32), 2nd (26), 3rd (17), 4th (21), 5th (18), and 6th (11)
\nJunior High: 1st (13), 2nd (11), and 3rd (8)
\nHigh School: 1st (13), 2nd (4), and 3rd (7)
\nJapanese Heritage Courses (38)
\nAdult Courses (TBA*)
\n* The final number is currently unknown as new students are being enrolled.<\/p>\n

Reading Award \u201cYokozuna\u201d\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

We\u2019ve got a great news! The children listed below have read 100 books and achieved the \u201cYokozuna\u201d book reading awards! Congratulations!<\/p>\n

Kindergarten<\/b>
\nThird Year Classroom 1 – Tomoka Yoshikawa *200 books
\nThird Year Classroom 1 – Emma Iyama
\nThird Year Classroom 2 – Haruki Ato *200 books
\nThird Year Classroom 2 – Ayame Barnes
\nThird Year Classroom 2 – Chiaki Barnes
\nThird Year Classroom 2 – Shuji Sako<\/p>\n

Japanese Heritage Courses<\/b>
\nKeisho 1 – Kotoko Pfau<\/p>\n

Adult Course Graduation (10 Students Have Completed)\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

The graduation ceremony for the Adult Course took place on the last day of the first semester, Saturday, June 16. We normally celebrate both Adult Course graduates and high school summer graduates together, but this year, we only celebrated 10 graduates from the Adult Course. Some students completed the entire 4-year program, while some studied Japanese at other institutions and spent a couple of years in the Adult Course. We even have some enthusiastic graduates who have chosen to repeat the 4th year to continue the study of Japanese. At the graduation, the students presented their own calligraphy projects where they wrote a complete sentence in Japanese using Kanji in both \u201con-yomi\u201d and \u201ckun-yomi.\u201d The new academic year for Adult Course begins at the end of August. New students are enrolling, and the new program is about to begin!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/h1>\n

Announcements<\/h1>\n

Second Semester Tuition Payments<\/h2>\n

1. A tuition bill for the second semester dated August 18 will be sent to your email address registered with JLSP on Friday, August 17.
\n2. The payment must be made by Saturday, September 1.
\n3. If you don\u2019t receive your invoice approximately by August 18, please contact the JLSP accountant at accounting@jlsp.us.
\n* Please read other important emails from each classroom carefully.<\/p>\n

Kanji Proficiency Test<\/h2>\n

Date: October 27th (Saturday), 2018<\/strong>
\nTest applicants should pick up directly the test application form from the staff office.
\nNext, please submit the test application form to the office along with the test fee (only check is accepted) by September 1st(Saturday), 2018.
\n\u203b Details on start time, venue etc will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy our weekly newsletter \u201cSmile\u201d in this new semester, too!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixty-Two Days of Summer Vacation Has Ended. Let\u2019s Get a Fresh Start!<\/h1>\n

\u201cEach student will grow and be more matured when you return to school in two months!\u201d This is what I wrote in the last edition of \u201cSmile (Vol. 7)\u201d issued on June 16. During the summer, a number of life threatening disasters were reported almost everyday, including the torrential rain and landslides in western Japan, severe damages caused by one typhoon after another, extreme heat wave and record-breaking high temperatures in Japan, etc. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to those who were affected by these frightening events.
\n Even here in the Philadelphia area, our smartphones were continuously delivering flood warnings and emergency alerts these past few weeks. I hope all students and their families remained safe.
\n The long summer vacation is over, and laughters and giggle have returned to Friends\u2019 Central. Did you have a productive summer? Were you able to achieve the goals you established prior to the summer? Did you have a healthy summer? And did you complete all homework? I bet everyone is fine.
\n The second semester is being started. I hope you are willing to continue to challenge yourself to accomplish your new goals. I look forward to seeing you grow further! \u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":4811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4817,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions\/4817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlsp.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}