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Kodomo No Hi

 

We started our celebration of Children's Day on the Japanese national holiday--- May 5th. 

 Next week we will continue our study of Children's Day.  We will learn about some of the traditional activities that happen on Children's Day through reading books and looking at videos/pictures online. 

We will make carp kites. 

On Thursday, we made origami samurai hats.

About a month ago, we all went to computer lab and did some research on Japan.  

We went to Kids Web Japan which is an awesome site for kids. 

In case your child would like to go on at home...

http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/

Happy Birthday, Keely!!!

After getting sick at school on her birthday AND missing our field trip, I thought Keely deserved a special picture with her long awaited cupcakes!!!!

Misc. Pics....

Maia and Jimmy sharing their elapsed time Tortorise & The Hare stories! 

 

 Keely's Share Time.

Pippa's share time--A Kimono!

100th Day of School

How many times can you ......  in 100 seconds?

 Stand up and sit down.

Luis & Christos

Asher

Stavrina's Birthday

Equal Arm Balance Pics

Some more old pictures from our balancing unit....

Balancing Pics...

Here are some old balancing pics.... The kids loved the hands on experiments!

Japanese Suitcase from Children's Museum

The kids were so excited to open up the suitcase. 

Here we are looking at all of the items from Japan!

Each families items were wrapped up in a cloth.

A child's school backpack.

School uniform

Girl's Kimono

Mrs. Melnik tried it on!

Taking a look at the many photos of Japan...

We really learned a lot and it was great to have so many items from Japan.
We can't wait to go on our field trip and see a Japanese house!!