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You are a life-saver! I am trying to plan a unit on Japan.
I have searched the web trying to find some sites that are easy to follow,
clear, and very straight forward. I will only be able to spend about a
week on Japanese culture with my 2nd graders. I love your site! Thank
you for putting forth the effort that I'm sure it took. I'm still looking
for just the right art activities. I want my boys to make carp kites,
and am looking for just the right art activity for my girls. Any ideas?
Again, I just wanted you to know that a teacher out here in cyberspace
appreciates you!!!
Linda
Dear John
I am a teacher of IT at xxx, just North of Hobart, in Tasmania, Australia.
We were very excited when we discovered your web site that you created
due to your trip to Japan on a Fullbright Fellowship. We have two classes
at school at the moment studying Japan and have found your web site very
informative for students in grade 2-3. Congratulations!! We have looked
at your site and discussed the things that are the same, then the things
that are different at our school. I found that the text and the pictures
were just terrific for students at a grade 2-3 level.
We have now built a WebQuest around your site looking at the issue of
students cleaning the school on a daily basis. We are looking at the positive
and negative aspects of this issue. We are launching our WebQuest to the
class tomorrow. Some of their tasks are to obtain other people's thoughts
on this issue. Others include our school principal, students, teachers,
parents and our school cleaners. It will be interesting to see what the
students come up with.
Congratulations for a great site,
Margaret
Tasmania
Australia
I have found your pictures very useful. In kindergarten,
we are traveling to different countries. Our classroom will represent
Japan. We will study Japan and its culture and turn our living center
into a Japanese house.
I am using your pictures and text to create a scrapbook to highlight a
day in the life a Japanese child. I especially think the children will
enjoy the shots of their classroom, lunch time and clean up. The children
can also read the simple text.
Thank you for your advance work.
Nicole - A kindergarten teacher in Houston, Texas
I would like to thank you for the wonderful pictures of Japan. My
child is studying this culture in school currently, and we looked all
over for a picture of a kimono. We did not expect to find one under your
listing, but there it was!! We were so happy - we ended up printing
out all of your pictures for her to bring to school and share with the
class!
Thanks again!!
Hello, my name is Gus, and I am 8yrs,. old. My teacher has assigned my
class and I a project. A project on Japanese homes, and what they look
like. I need all the pictures and information I can get to do my project.
I have to build a small model on the house and tell about it. I was wondering
if possibly, you could tell me some web sites to go to, to get some info.
and pictures. I would really appreciate it if you could tell me before,
Thusday 17, 2000. I want to thank you for reading my letter. And I hope
to see some information soon, if that is possible thank you so much :-}.
Sincerely,
Gus Young
Dear Mr.. Donaldson
Thank you so much for the information. I t was a great help to me., and
it ment alot that you read my letter. Not many people take the time to
read my letters, and it bothers me that they don't. I am glad that YOU
care. Thank you so much good bye!
Sincerely,
Gus Young
Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed exploring your site.
I am a student teacher in a second grade classroom in Georgia. The
students will be learning about Japan in the next couple of weeks...I
think your site is very interesting and on just the right level for young
students. I particularly enjoyed the part on your site about
"Peace"...About three years ago I hosted a couple of Japanese
exchange students over the Christmas holidays. These girls and their friends
were always flashing the peace sign and I wondered why (the language barrier
prevented me from being able to find out). I really enjoyed
your explanantion
Diane
i thnk they are very beeutiful.I love them.I am a secondgrader
from xxx Scool in Ca. from Isabelle
To Whom It May Concern:
We are NTT Multimedia Communication Laboratories, Inc. We are looking
for Japan-related sites to link to our site, Japan Window (http://www.jwindow.com),
and found your site interesting. We would like to know if we could link
our website to yours. If there is any problem with our request, please
email us back at recept@nttmcl.com, within 5 days. Otherwise, the link
will appear in about a week. Please feel free to link to us, too.
Thank-You for your time, NTT MCL, Inc. BONJOUR FROM PARIS Today we are
working on Japan with children of 6 years old, last week they learn to
write in Japanese using paint and some signs. One Japanese mother came
to teach us which way and how we should write and tow of my class children
* I am a teacher at International school of Paris * two children are Japanese
so they could help us. Thank you for these super pages, they are really
happy to look and read. As far I am concern I am the author of a book
about fighter * Fighter Kites Philippe Gallot publisher St Martin Press
kites, and the Hata you show is one I love to fly in battles using cutting
line. I am please to say that we are enjoying your web site. Thank you,
merci beaucoup.
Philippe
Hello,
Although I'm not in the age range for which it was designed (I'm 26),
I found your website about Japan very interesting and useful. My husband
and I are leaving in a week to visit Tokyo. Thanks for the great pictures.
I especially like the photos of the kids in school.
Sincerely,
P. I.
San Diego
Hi My name is Jamie and I have been on your website looking at pictures
from Japan.I a doing a project at school about Japan I am in need of some
pictures do you think you can help me ???This is very urgent it is due
in on Thursday could you find me some pictures of perhaps children some
building's in Japan and if you could find some pictures of the clothing
that they that would be great.
Your sincerely
Jamie
New Zealand
>I'm interested in knowing how your project went. Was my site helpful?
Yes, very much so. We were showing how to use the software Inspiration
to link to the web and also how students can organize the information
from the web using Inspiration. Your site has such wonderful pictures
and easy-to-read text that it was a real bonus. Thanks again for letting
us share your site.
>I'm interested in knowing how your project went. Was
my site helpful?
Yes, Your site WAS helpful, very, and just to let you know i got an A-
on it and i'm really proud!Thank You!
>I'm interested in knowing how your project went. Was
my site helpful?
I am happy to tell you that our center was awesome! We received
a 100% on the project. We used your site to design a center that
would have the students look at the pictures, answer some questions and
compare their lives in school to the lives of students in Japan.
Thank you for your help.
>I'm interested in knowing how your project went. Was my site helpful?
hi John Yes we found your site to be great for grade 2/3 students. Because
students at this age are still developing the ability to read at great
lengths to gain information, your simple text and pictures gave a lot
of information. The approach that we took when accessing your web site
was to find similiar things in Japan and here. The students found TVs,
etc but it was a way of actually also finding the things that were different.
we had some visiting Japanese students at our school during that year
and so on their return to japan our students were able to email them and
ask them whether they had to clean their school. And yes they did! The
students were divided into groups and researched what people thought of
having students clean our school. People that the students questioned
included other students, teachers, parents, cleaners and our principal.
The response from our cleaner was that he may be out of a job if that
happened. The students displayed their findings at our weekly assembly.
It is a great site and I congratulate you again.
Margaret
Tasmania
Halo John,
I am from Secunda, Mpumalanga in South Africa.
We are busy with a geography project on Japan. I visited your website
and enjoyed the pictures. I will be able to use a lot of them in my project.
I just need some more information which I somehow missed in the sites
I have visited. I hop that you can help me with it please.
1. Are there difirent languages in Japan ? If so, which is the one most
commonly used ? 2. What is the weather like ? How does it affect the people
of Japan's every day life ? 3. What do the people of Japan do for a living
? The different industries, etc. Do you have some pictures of that ? 4.
What would you say is the most important aspect of Japan - that is for
their own people as well as for the whole worl.
This is quite a mouth full as we would say here in Afrikaans in South
Africa. Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you on the other side
of the world. It is quite an experience. I hope that you can answer some
of my questions soon. I am a grade 6 people of xxx. I am eleven years
old.
>I'm interested in knowing how your project went. Was
my site helpful?
My project was a real success, thanks for asking. The children really
loved it and we all learned a lot about Japan. I also have a child in
my classroom from Japan, so she and her family were able to add a lot
to the project. I shared many of the photographs from your website with
the children and they loved them. They especially enjoyed the pictures
of the children at school. Thanks again for all the information.
Hi, I think your website is easy to get pictures.
Your text is actually readable.
cool job,
Website reader
Dear John Hi my name is Candice. I am 12 years of age.
This term my class is doing a project on Japan. Thank you for having great
photos of Japan and a lot of information about the photos. I do have a
few questions I would like to ask though. Could you please answer them
a.s.a.p. Thanks. Yours sincerely
Candice.
I think that your website on Japan is great. I am doing
a report on Japanese architecture, so it really helped. Later I will be
doing reports on Japanese food and clothing. Thank you for letting me
go through this lovely Japanese website with so many facts. Thanks again!
Libby
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