Japanese market

Years 6 and 7 Japanese classes had a Japanese market activity on 29 November. They researched Japanese products sold in Sydney, converted the price to the Japanese currency and learned Japanese expressions, such as ‘welcome to our shop’, ‘I’ll have this please’ and ‘how much is it?’ etc. Some students used their creativity and made their products from scratch. We used paper money (yen) for the shopping activity. Students enjoyed this end-of-the-year fun and interactive activity.

Below is a student reflection from Anastasha Harris in Year7.

On Tuesday 28 November, we started our preparations for the Y7 Japanese market. Our group decided to go with slime!, but not any slime. Miso soup slime! We had collectively named it Mi-so slimey. It was catchy and had a great laugh to come with it too. Now, on to the making. Our group had equally spread out the amount of supplies needed to accomplish this task as we had a budget of $15 each, this included glue, clay, food colouring, containers, cubes and chopsticks . We separated into different tasks; my friends were on the clay, while I was working on the slime to create the perfect miso colour. In our market we had two types of “miso”, the vegan – which included the slime base (slime and cubes) with shallots, two dumplings, sesame seeds and chopsticks which sold for 520 yen. The second type was the deluxe selling for 700 yen which included the slime base, shallots, an egg, teriyaki chicken and sesame seeds.

It was the next day that we had been preparing for. Each group had their own table and this market was sorted into two rounds to make sure everybody had a turn to buy and to sell. This means we had to keep some of our stock for the next round. Our group sold out within 10 minutes, making a profit of 3,560 yen. Overall it was an amazing experience and all the group did well.

Aya Shiragaki
Japanese Teacher