Monday August 21st
On Monday Mr Tanaka lead us to the kitchen one by one after lunch. Once all of the class was in there he started to cook miso soup.First he added water into the pot and waited for it to boil.After that he added some dry seaweed into the pot and added miso paste into the pot.Then he stirred it for a while and then he added a bit more of the miso paste and said that he liked miso soup better with more miso paste.And once he added the right amount of miso paste that he liked he started to stir it for a while and then he got a bunch of coffee cups ut and he started to pour some soup in each cup.I got the soup quite quickly and once I got it I just held the handle and tried to cool it down by blowing it and once I tasted it,it was very very salty but at the same time it was yum.Everybody was just outside drinking the soup and enjoying it.Once everybody finished their miso soup we all sat on the mat and mr Tanaka told us that we got some souvenirs and he took out some origami from this white bag that he got and gave us each one piece of origami and we had to read what it said and the contents told us about what they liked what their name was and what age they were.So once all of us read the note he told us that we would respond back to them and also make origami.So he gave us each a piece of origami paper and we wrote a note on it saying the same thing like our age,our name and our favourite things to do.Once we finished our writing we had to go to Mr Tanaka and he would teach us how to do the origami.I made a crane and it actually turned out to be good.I didn’t think it would look good because I’m not the best at origami.And that is about the first lesson Mr Tanaka taught us.
Tuesday August 22nd
On Tuesday Mr Tanaka showed us a powerpoint about the Japanese school that he worked in.He talked about their daily routine in Japan.He showed us a photo of the people who helped with the food.People from class asked Mr Tanaka why they were wearing masks.And he responded with saying because when they talk their saliva with go everywhere.After showing us the photos of the school in Japan he showed us the characters and it’s called Kanji.Then he gave the whole challenge to name all of the Japanese characters matching the kanji symbol.After that game he told us to get a piece of origami paper and write down a kanji character and I chose a bird.Once we wrote down the kanji character we had to draw the character that you wrote down.Once we finished one we had to draw another and do that again until the time was up.I enjoyed that day I think it was probably my favourite.
Wednesday August 23rd
On Wednesday we did circuit stuff.First we got into groups of six and then he asked us questions if it would work on certain paper stuff like that and then he asked if it would work on paper then he asked if it would work on foil.After that each group had to go on a table and then we had to test it out first we had to test out the batteries and the led light and if it would work.After that we tested if it would on paper then the foil because most people suspected that it would only work on the foil.So once we tested it we had problems just working on trying to light it up so it took us a while and we were only able to test out the paper so we didn’t know if the foil would work.then he asked the whole class if it worked for the paper and the foil.We didn’t put our hands up for paper and we only put it up on foil.After that he gave us some metallic paper and it still didn’t work and after that we got some sand paper and we had to scratch the sparkly stuff off and then it worked! We wrote down on the chart that the scratched metallic paper and the foil worked and we wrote down that the paper and the non scratched metallic paper didn’t work.After that we all had to sit down on the mat and we had to tell our observations about it.After that we put everything away.And that was just his last lesson.
