By Mattie Parsell and Angelina Rizzo
In Japan on May 5th, Children's Day, kids are very excited. They fly kites. They put carp kites on poles in front of the house to show how many kids they have. For Hina Matsuri, which is doll festival, they put out fancy dolls wearing beautiful kimonos with obis, and royalty outfits. They put out doll furniture. They also have samuari warrior dolls. Girls and boys wear nice clothes and they learn good values.
At the Museum School, we learned about Japan and the festival of "Komodo No Hi and Hina Matsuri" or "Children's Day" in departments. We held our Children's Day presentations at the Museum School on Thursday, May 18th, 2000 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. To prepare for our presentations, our departments studied about Japan, and this cultural event. We read Japanese stories. We learned origami. We learned about Japanese food.
Take a look and click below to see some of our favorite websites and what we learned in departments.
The Webmasters,
Mattie, Tamika, Jeremy, Angelina, Josh
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more about what Departments did click on one of the projects below:
Travel learned about traveling to Japan.
Cooking Department learned how to make some great Japanese food.
Public Relations/Student Store interviewed some local businesses and learned more about operating a store.
Video Department made a video of some of the department work.
Puppet/Theater Department wrote a play and performed for us.
Woodshop made some mailboxes.
Here are some of our favorite websites:
If you want to learn more about origami here are a few good sites:
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~vbeatty/origami/gate2.html
http://www.jade.dti.ne.jp/~hatori/index.html
http://origami.com/
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