{"id":917,"date":"2018-05-06T06:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mom\/?p=917"},"modified":"2018-05-06T06:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T21:11:20","slug":"happy-childrens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stmaur.ac.jp\/mom\/2018\/05\/06\/happy-childrens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Children’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Japan May 5th is a national holiday known as Children’s Day<\/strong>.\u00a0 Families celebrate the healthy growth and happiness of their children. For this special day, families with boys fly carp-shaped cloth streamers (Koinobori<\/span>).\u00a0 The carp was chosen because it symbolizes strength and success.<\/p>\n

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The children drew pictures of their friends and families celebrating Children’s Day under the Koinobori.<\/p>\n

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The children also made their own Koinobori by coloring, cutting, putting stickers on the carp and making a clay base.\u00a0 When they were done, we celebrated with a Koi-shaped rice cracker treat. “Itadaki-masu.”<\/p>\n

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Art exhibition<\/strong> in the Fine Arts Building:\u00a0 In April, Grade 12 International Baccalaureate (IB)\u00a0Art<\/span>\u00a0students had their work\u00a0exhibited<\/span>\u00a0 in the Art room of the Fine Arts building.\u00a0 We were invited to come and enjoy the IB artists showcase their art pieces.\u00a0 Our class had a chance to visit the exhibition and to admire the artwork on the way back from the library.\u00a0 The children walked quietly, looked at the display, keeping their hands by their sides so not to touch anything.\u00a0 Some artwork was also displayed on our Montessori roof.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ballet recital<\/strong>: Some of the Montessori students are involved in ballet as an extra-curricular activity.\u00a0 In April, Montessori children, along with Elementary students, performed a recital in the Fine Arts Auditorium after-school in front of parents and friends.\u00a0 They did a fantastic job!<\/p>\n

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We love reading, and it’s more fun when we have reading buddies<\/strong>. ” Can I read to you?”\"\"<\/a>The Fourth graders from Ms. Takeda’s and Ms. Culek’s classes came to our afternoon Language program (Daily 5 and Language Arts classes) to read to the children in two separate classrooms.\u00a0 It was a lovely time to celebrate reading.\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Montessori concert<\/strong> was held in the auditorium, where we performed dances and singing in different languages in front of our parents and the entire Elementary School. It was fun to be on stage. Our parents were happy to see us sing and dance.<\/p>\n

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Every April 29th, we hold our big fund-raiser, the International<\/strong>\u00a0Food Fair<\/strong>.\u00a0 As our contribution to the Food Fair, the Montessori department organized the two most popular games,\u00a0Fishing and Lucky Pencil. The pre-first graders volunteered to help in half-hour shifts throughout the day.\u00a0 The two games combined sold close to 1,100 tickets.\u00a0 Thank you to all the children who came to support our games. We hope you had fun getting different prizes. It was a very hot day on the main building’s rooftop.<\/p>\n

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A nice surprise<\/strong>: My old Montessori students (now 29 going on 30) came to visit the classroom at the end of Food Fair day.\u00a0 Illi, who was in my class, came with her son who is two years old.\u00a0 Kay was in Ms. Sallie’s class.\u00a0 They graduated Montessori in 1994, and both went on to High School at Saint Maur. They remain close friends.\u00a0 How nice it is to have life-long friends from Saint Maur.<\/p>\n

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…so it’s almost the end of the year.\u00a0 Just six more weeks of school left. We still have Kazenoko theater group coming for a performance, Sports Day in the temporary gymnasium, Family picnic at Negishi park, and more.\u00a0 How exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Japan May 5th is a national holiday known as Children’s Day.\u00a0 Families celebrate the healthy growth and happiness of their children. For this special day, families with boys fly carp-shaped cloth streamers (Koinobori).\u00a0 The carp was chosen because it symbolizes strength and success. The children drew pictures of their friends and families celebrating Children’s…
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