There’s so much to do at recess; tag, basketball, digging, finding bugs, and tending to the pansies. After recess, we get ready for lunch. Today was like cream stew made with soy…

We’re riding the bus back to La Porte from Gifu Prefectural Museum at Hyakunen Koen! That was so much fun and now everyone is asleep on the bus.

Today we planted a garden in the playground, with pansies. The hope is to attract some butterflies to lay eggs on the leaves.   Caterpillars made the garden with almost no help…

We are making a rain stick as an art project. We hammered nails into a hard cardboard tube, then we collected pebbles to fill the tube. When you turn the tube up…

Another week of show and tell. The highlight of this week was a squishy baby toy. In show and tell, we are trying to ask questions nicely. “Why did you bring that?”…

We had P.E. class today, it was so fun! We are learning to use the tetsu-bo following Mr. Sugimoto’s instructions from Thanks Activity. Our favorite is the daikon-pull where we take turns…

We made Jack O’Lanterns today! We cut the pumpkin lids, then scooped out so much goo and seeds from the inside. We saved the seeds so that hopefully we can grow orange…