A school of fish

The Japanese do love their stationery, which is reason enough to want to visit there someday, in my eyes. I have loved the Japanese site Je...

Sam teaches an Art Lesson to the children (and me) when he can on Fridays, so during this unit he taught a class using Bonsai as a vehicl...

We watched several "travel video"-type movies about Japan during this unit, and our favorite was probably this one from "Th...

One night we decided to try making gyoza, which are the Japanese version of potstickers. We LOVE to eat potstickers, so we were pretty su...

We do like a good tea party in this family. I wasn't going to do one for our Japan Unit, but after talking about how important the T...

One of our neighbors served an LDS church mission in Tokyo, so we asked him to come over and tell us some of the things he knew about Jap...

Inspired by these collages  and these lovely paintings , we decided to do a combination of the two and make some multimedia pictures of J...

Even though I try to practice with chopsticks whenever I can, I'm not very proficient with them. The children have hardly ever used t...

Before this unit, I had only tried sushi a few times. I liked it okay, but I didn't really… get it. It seemed faintly strange to me,...

When I think of Japanese lanterns, the round or oblong ones  like this  come to mind first, but when I saw this  tutorial  showing ho...