Donguri Kai continues to provide Japanese education through online classes for children from kindergarten to elementary school. Class meets in a live online classroom once a week to fortify reading, pronunciation, conversation, and communication in Japanese. Teachers interactively guide students to enhance their communication skills. Students interact on-screen to stimulate and encourage each other through various learning activities.
Winter Session I – Registration is now closed
Winter Session 2 – Week of Feb. 22, 2021, registration will open Feb. 1, 2021
ONLINE CLASSES: Week of Jan. 11, 2021 to Feb. 8, 2021
60 min class x 5 weeks
Level 1 Teacher: Kaoru Fairbanks
Wednesdays, 4:00 -5:00 pm
1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10
Students learn Hiragana/Katakana vocabulary, basic greetings, and conversational phrases.
Level 2 Teacher: Tomoko Hanna
Wednesdays, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10
Class for students who are able to follow instructions in Japanese. Students learn to make a sentence with the focus of tense and exercise conversations.
Level 3 Teacher: Kaori Tabion
Thursdays, 5:45 pm – 6:15 pm
1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11
This class is a 30 min class for 5 weeks
Class for students who are able to follow instructions in Japanese. Students learn Kanji and make paragraphs and practice presentation.
Level 4 Teachers: Kaori Tabion & Yuri Yamanaka
Thursdays, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11
Class for students who independently utilize the Japanese language. Through group and individual projects, students build effective multilingual communication skills.
Meet the Donguri Teachers
Kaori Tabion: After 10 years of working in the healthcare industry, Ms.Tabion started a study group teaching Japanese to her own kids and their friends. In 2017, she opened Donguri Kai at JASC and has been teaching Donguri classes. She is a member of an international research community of kanji teaching methods in multilingual children at Learn Japan.
Tomoko Hanna: I have been teaching English and Japanese to adults and children since 1995. As a mother of two who speaks the two languages, I deeply understand the need for bilingual education in the U.S. Currently, I sub Tampopo class, and teach Baby Tampopo class and Japanese program at Banner Preschool.
Yuri Yatsuda: Ms. Yatsuda is a resident of Chicago since 2010, and a mother of two children. In 2016, she and Kaori Tabion founded a small Japanese study group for her own children and their friends, and taught them Japanese for 3 years. In 2019, she began teaching Japanese at Donguri program. Her goal for teaching is to deliver a Japanese language program that makes children motivated and excited.
*REQUIREMENTS: Online device (PC, Tablet), Internet access and printer
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