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Taki
Happy New Year! We've already been having fun this January making Taki using recycled materials and flying them all through our yard!
鏡餅
１月の保育活動に鏡開きがあります。園では子供たちが食べやすいように、からからに干した餅をおせんべいにしていただきます。紙の袋にいれて干し餅をいれ、電子レンジで数分。するとおせんべいになります。
昨年までは、園長先生のお母さんが暇を見て作り置きをしてくださった乾燥餅を使用。餅を細かく切るのは一苦労。でもその乾燥お餅は今年で終わり。今年からは、園長先生が干し餅を作って保存します。手が痛くなるほどですが、子供たちの喜ぶ顔を思い浮かべたら、何でもない仕事。子供は、整った食から愛を感じます、それは遠いいつの日か、いろんな形で、大切に育てられたという思い出として。園長先生も、年老いたお母様を思い浮かべ、感謝の気持ちで幸せになったそうです
The Kagami Mochi preparation process can be quite difficult and taking time. If the mochi is made too hard, it is difficult to break. If it is too soft, it is difficult to chew. In the past, our children ate mochi that had been previously prepared by my mother. This year, I prepared the mochi for next year by myself so that I could share my family's tradition with our students. This was also my way of showing our school's appreciation for the joy our students bring us every year. I have also already begun preparing mochi for the next New Year. My hope is that by sharing food with our students made by my own hands, they will begin to develop an appreciation for the work and effort that goes into preparing traditional homemade food.
Getting Ready for Christmas
We're getting ready for the holidays by making Christmas cards and practicing playing Christmas carols on the piano!
Happy Thanksgiving!
We are thankful for so many things this year! We enjoyed learning about pilgrims and native Americans and hearing the story of the first Thanksgiving. We enjoyed making our own pilgrim hats to wear on singing day. We also worked very hard on our decorations for our Thanksgiving lunch. We learned about cornicopias and had a great time creating them horns using Trader Joe's bags. We used construction paper and a combination of recycled materials to create all the vegetables and fruits that we filled inside. We were so thankful to be able to sit down together and enjoy a delicious and nutricious Thanksgiving meal prepared by our teachers. A very special thanks to our students who cooked our cornbread and helped chop all the vegetables for our Thanksgiving stuffing.
Giving thanks for new tastes!
It's not quite time for enjoying turkey dinner yet. But we were all very thankful for our delicious imonikai! We enjoyed learning how to chop vegetables slowly and carefully. It was exciting to witness and experience the whole cooking process from chopping the raw vegetables to cooking and eating a delicious soup! Special thanks to Mrs. Sullivan for introducing us to a wonderfully fun Thanksgiving snack that we enjoyed making and eating! Using Hawaiian King rolls, pretzels, grapes, and colorful cereal we made small edible snacks in the shape of turkeys!
Halloween is coming..!
We've been very busy getting ready for Halloween! We've been decorating pumpkins and making masks with recycled materials...just in case any ghosts, goblins, or ghouls show up at our door!
San Gennaro Festival
Every September, Italians celebrate the San Gennaro Festival. It is a weeklong celebration in which families and friends cook together and share their food, homes, and gifts with others in need. It is a celebration of caring and sharing with others. This year, we decided to celebrate by cooking traditional Italian meatballs and tomato sauce from scratch and sharing them with our classmates and families.