Japan Capstone Day#1

The result of years and years efforts by children and their parents, these two children finally reached to this moment. I am really happy to be together at this moment.

Auction items from our class

The 2009 International School Auction is coming next month.

Thank to Carol and Kate (Elisabeth's grandmother, Elisabeth's mother), we could prepared the items from our class.

Children helped this cushions' sawing with their assistances, but Carol and Kate obviously worked a lot after that.

They all look pretty and have Asian taste. All items have perfect harmony.

Thank you for all your help.

Recess in the classroom

Only two kids in the class today.

Just in case, we stayed inside during the recess today.

We played Jenga together and kids team won.

Here is the picture of the world tallest Jenga tower.

See you tomorrow!

Capstone Trip 09

Finally we are getting closed to the departure day.

## Flight information ##

Northwest Airlines Inc - Flight NW 0785
PDX >> NRT
Departure time：1:15 PM　Friday, October 30, 2009 （American time）　
Arrival time：4:45 PM　Saturday, October 31, 2009 （Japan local time）　

Northwest Airlines Inc - Flight NW 0786
NRT >> PDX
Departure time：3:45 PM Friday Novermber 13, 2009（Japan local time）
Arrival time： 7:50 AM Friday Novermber 13, 2009（American time）

These many days we will be out of the States, and bring back lots of things to share with you.

I will keep uploading what we do in Japan in real time, so we can share lots of thing even we are out of the States.

4th graders can check these links for next year trip.

Links for trip

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National Museum of Nature & Science

http://www.kahaku.go.jp/english/

Sensoji
http://www.senso-ji.jp/about/index_e.html

Tsukiji wholesale market
http://www.shijou.metro.tokyo.jp/english/index.html

Tokyo Tower
http://www.tokyotower.co.jp/english/

Tea ceremony (Hotel Okura) Tel: + 81 (3) 3582-0111

http://www.okura.com/tokyo/info/teaceremony.html

Tokyo Dome City

http://www.tokyo-dome.co.jp/e/park/

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EIGAMURA / KYOTO STUDIO PARK / 9am - 5pm

http://www.toei-eigamura.com/?c=2

Temple sites are all in Japanese.

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Todaiji (Japanese)
http://www.todaiji.or.jp/kids/

Sheila Taormina : Olympic Gold Medalist

Sheila Taormina

As you can see, she still keeps her body strong even if she had retired after Beijing Olympic.

I wonder how many people recognize this sprots "Pentathlon"

Pistol Shooting

Fencing

Swimming

Show jumping (Horse ride)

Running

"Iron woman"

but she is really good at communicating with kids.

Pistol shooting

It looks longer than regular hand guns.

Target is this small.

shooting

Fencing

Gold medalist of Baseball

Gold medalist of Wrestling

Gold medalist of Swimming

Future sailing medalist Ryan talked to Sheila directly.

Unfortunately, Ryan's photos with medal are really fuzzy. Sorry about that.

Volcano Claymation

Here is what we made.

Two plates create volcano eruption.

Procedure of claymation

#1
Watch model video on Youtube

#2
Divide a few scenes of the whole story and let each children to be responsible on each scene.

#3
Draw out the the scene images.

#4
Photo shooting
Make first scene by first person. Then, the first student will move clays a little by little until the next scene. Take turns to the end.

#5
Photo editing by photo shop >> Movie editing by Adobe Flash.

Tea Ceremony

Tea ceremony is not really fun for young Japanese like me. But I understand it trains various things in yourself.

I was surprised that our kids love this painful training. Off course they also loved MOCHI and Tea.

5th graders learned this first. It was lucky that MIKI-sensei could show them tea ceremony before they go to Japan. She had taken tea lesson about a year in Hokkaido.

Concentration was great. I want to see this more often.

Even picking up the snack(Mochi) has strict manners.

↑↓Actually both kids love green tea.

Wow..

↑↓Both 4th graders learned the rules so quickly. Miki was surprised at how fast they have learned.

That was a good lesson. To be honest I did not expect that kids enjoyed this much.

Run for the Art

Everybody broke the last year's record on Run of the Art.

OTSUKARE-sama! 5th graders! Last run was great!