My DS, 11th grade, is taking it today.

Congratulations!!

I hope someone who has an experience will chime in and give you some insight soon... In the mean time, can you email/call UC and ask what exactly they are looking for or explain your situation? I hope they just overlooked some of the boxes or something simple.

Maybe like this? https://www.amazon.co.jp/はじめてのめいさくえほん-全15巻-いもと-ようこ/dp/4265102611/ref=pd_sbs_14_11?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=4265102611&pd_rd_r=3da01433-ff69-11e8-a0fa-fb883d6be6da&pd_rd_w=RuG1t&pd_rd_wg=N4jDa&pf_rd_p=cda7018a-662b-401f-9c16-bd4ec317039e&pf_rd_r=3D0JFGA5MCC414S84C56&psc=1&refRID=3D0JFGA5MCC414S84C56 To find books for young children, some key words here... Picture book : Ehon (えほん) Japanese Old Folk Tale : Mukashibanashi (むかしばなし) *Commonly used as children's first reading books For Kindergarten : Enji or Youchienji For Elementary grade children : Jidou or Shougakusei After 1st grade level, many Japanese children's books start using Kanji with kana. Hope that helps...

Learning Japanese is hard...! I'm Japanese, born and grew up in Japan with a set of very traditional parents. I, of course, speak and write Japanese fluently, but I don't even know how to teach Japanese! I tried with my California native husband and failed. I also tried teaching to my two children and failed miserably. Now my son (15yo) is learning Spanish 3 and my daughter (12yo) is learning middle school Spanish and high school Latin 1 and they are excelling 🙄 To answer your questions about the proper interpretation of Kids Dictionary in Japanese, I agree with above poster, JAYY's. Zukan is more focused in one topic/area of things and Ejiten (E is for picture, Jiten for dictionary) has a picture and its word.

I see. It would bother me to have to deal with the tiny print as well. As for the loan-words, it is very poplar to use them as everyday words, especially in clothing and food items. Things like Skirt, Pants, Jeans, Jacket, Sneaker (we don't add "s" though, LOL), Sandwich, Coffee, Juice, Lettuce for example. We just pronounce these English words with a heavy Japanese accent 🙂

How about this? https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-English-Bilingual-Visual-Dictionary-DK/dp/1465469184/ref=pd_sim_14_11?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1465469184&pd_rd_r=f7b29de7-fc3e-11e8-8a86-63a2687e5275&pd_rd_w=cdhCc&pd_rd_wg=4BVAQ&pf_rd_p=18bb0b78-4200-49b9-ac91-f141d61a1780&pf_rd_r=KM3TEKP3A41ZD1AWDJZ5&psc=1&refRID=KM3TEKP3A41ZD1AWDJZ5 Although not all words have Kana, if you can write Kana from Romanji, they read the same. For example: 耳 (mimi in Kanji) mimi (Romanji) ミミ (re-write mimi in Katakana) Ear (English)

I spotted Classical Conversations Inc. on the A-G approved list on the linked UC's website... It has a "closed as of 2017" note beside their name now, but I thought you might be referring them as a co-op group as it is a popular co-op option among charter families.

Classical Conversations? I saw our vendor's name was on the list with "closed as of 2018" note, so I asked about it to our advisor at our charter school. Our advisor reassured me that our vendor is in process of getting the approval renewed and it will take some time (few months) to get everything settled.

I would eat it.

Yes! I got mine at Radio Shack a long time ago. I'd think store like Guitar Center, Best Buy, or local music shop should have one.

My DS, 14yo, gets pimples here and there regularly (2-3 pimples a week). Someone on this board here mentioned Stridex wipe and we tried. We are very pleased with the result.

Other than decorating the cake with it, how about: Decorate cupcakes - easier to freeze than a whole cake? Put on the cookies with crushed nuts Decorate large marshmallows with colorful sprinkles or nuts Use it for fruits dip Pour hot water and drink it like a hot cocoa?

I am so sorry.

I'm so sorry. Sounds like he had a great life.