This chapter examines the ways teachers in a Japanese-as-heritage-language classroom in the United States prepare children to receive a preschool graduation certificate to be held at the end of the school year. It shows ways this preparation entails children learning an elaborate sequence of embodied moves that have to be imitated and performed in a fixed way (e.g., receiving the certificate from the school principal with both hands, taking a step back and then bowing deeply). It identifies various stages of this instruction, including modeling and demonstration by teachers of explicitly articulated “good”/“correct” and “bad”/“incorrect” examples followed by individual one-on-one rehearsal that entails an abundant amount of verbal and embodied correction of each child’s embodied moves. The chapter argues that teachers’ verbal and embodied practices during this preparation are rooted within an ideology of “correctness” of form (kata) that permeates many of the activities observed in this preschool classroom (e.g., learning to write Japanese, doing origami) in ways that prepare the children for Japanese society, in which attention to details of prescribed form is highly valued.