Week 1
Lesson 1
Describing Weather: Weather Conditions
Learners identify the vocabulary for describing weather conditions.
Learners ask and respond to questions on today's weather through role-play.
Learners describe what kind of weather they prefer.
Learners learn how to write kanji for 今日, 天気, 雨, 雲, and 雷 for extra time.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Describing Weather: Describing Temperature
Learners identify the vocabulary for describing temperature.
Learners ask and respond to questions on how one feels about the day's temperature.
Learners role-play and ask classmates on temperature for different parts of Japan.
Learners learn how to write kanji for 今日, 天気, 雨, 雲, and 雷 for extra time.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Describing Weather: Describing Temperature with Large Numbers
Learners identify the key vocabulary for describing temperature with numbers.
Learners ask and respond to questions on temperatures about different parts of the world.  
Learners role-play and ask temperatures where they live.
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Introduction to Using Adjectives
Learners identify the three different groups of adjectives.
Learners compare the difference in usage of いadjectives and na-adjectives.
Learners use adjectives appropriately to describe a noun.
Learners use adjectives appropriately to describe a noun in a complete sentence.
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Negative Form of Adjectives
Learners define how to conjugate いadjective to negative form.
Learners use the negative form of adjective to describe animals.
Learners use the negative form of adjective to describe animals in complete sentences.
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Negative Form of Adjectives
Learners define how to conjugate なadjective to negative form.
Learners use the negative form of adjective to describe themselves and friends.
Learners use the negative form of adjective to describe themselves and friends in complete sentences.
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Classroom Objects
Learners identify classroom objects in Japanese.
Learners ask and respond to questions on who owns the classroom objects in the class.
Learners count with appropriate counters to describe how many objects there are.
Learners modify the example dialogue to create their own dialogues in class.
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Presentation Work Day and Wrap-Up Review Game
If all of the previous lessons didn't take long, we will have students present their outside of class assignments and answer any questions students may have on the materials learned so far.   

If not, we will be completing the lesson on using counters.