Japanese

Welcome back to Term 4! We have had a hectic few weeks in the last term, here are some snapshots of what we have done in Week 9. In Japanese class, we learned about the Moon viewing festival called お月見”Otsukimi”,  held on Saturday, 10th of September. In mid-Autumn in Japan, under the full moon, family and friends come together to celebrate "Otsukimi" - the Japanese Harvest Moon Festival. You may have heard of the man on the moon, but in Japan, the craters on the moon's surface are not felt to represent a man’s face but a rabbit pounding mochi. So we made a rabbit with origami to create those beautiful posters for the festivals in Foundation and Grade 1 & 2.

To finish off our Sumo unit, we made little sumo wrestlers with clay and coloured them in Grade 3 to 6.  They should be nice and dried during the holiday to take those sumo wrestlers home this term.  However, we probably need to fix or glue those fallen body parts first before you take them home. 

On the last day of Term 3, we had a Japanese Calligraphy lesson with Grade 3 to 6, writing 平和 ”Heiwa” which means peace. Every August 6, "A-Bomb Day", the city of Hiroshima holds the Peace Memorial Ceremony to console the victims of the atomic bombs and to pray for the realization of lasting world peace. And The International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) is also observed around the world each year on 21 September which was during the school holiday. So we combined these events and made original peace design on windwheels and they experienced Japanee Calligraphy by writing 平和, "Heiwa". 

What a busy fun last day of the term that was.