Field Trip #10 Friday Blog Hop

Field Trip Friday!

A Blog Hop designed to share 'FIELD TRIP' related Blog Posts

(does not have to be a 'home school field trip', can be any trip to any place with your children!)

 

Bon Dance

We were fortunate enough that the same month we studied Japan, the local Buddhist Temple held their annual Japanese Bon Dance. 

 

as per Wikipedia:

The "Bon season" is an important part of the present-day culture and life of Hawaii. Bon Odori festivals are also celebrated in North America, particularly by Japanese-Americans orJapanese-Canadians affiliated with Buddhist temples and organizations. Buddhist Churches of America (BCA) temples in the U.S. typically celebrate Bon Odori with both religious Obon observances and traditional Bon Odori dancing around a yagura. Many temples also concurrently hold a cultural and food bazaar providing a variety of cuisine and art, also to display features of Japanese culture and Japanese-American history.^[6] Performances of taiko by both amateur and professional groups have recently become a popular feature of Bon Odori festivals.^[7][8] Bon Odori festivals are usually scheduled anytime between July and September. Bon Odori melodies are also similar to those in Japan; for example, the dance Tankō Bushifrom Kyūshū is also performed in the U.S. In California, due to the diffusion of Japanese immigration, Bon Odori dances also differ from Northern to Southern California, and some are influenced by American culture, such as "Baseball Ondo".

 

We had a really good time, and even went back the 2nd night.  The lines for food were so long the first night, that we went early the 2nd night to get at the front of them!  The food was good, I’m so glad we went back!!

 

 

It’s sort of like a line dance, that goes in a circle.  You don’t need to know the steps, you just watch and follow the ladies in the center of the circle.  Each dance repeats the same set of movements over and over, so it’s really easy to catch on.  Some the dances include sticks or fans, and they provide them for everyone.  Each dance tells a story about Japanese life.

 

 

 

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YourStory Laminator and Book Binder Giveaway (CLOSED)

I’ve surpassed 100 followers across the board and to celebrate, I’m hosting a giveaway! 
Every homeschool  needs a lamination machine!  I love my YourStory by Provo Craft and I just happen to have another one with a bonus cutter (I bought a 2nd one on a good sale for the book binding materials)!
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Workbox Wednesday

Last week was originally planned for a full week, but we ended up only doing ‘school’ two days.  Tuesday we had our first co-op meeting, so we only had a half day. Wednesday we tried out a preschool co-op for Z. Thursday we prepared for C’s bday party and Friday was a field trip.  So this post will be short.  But that’s what is great about Home School --- Flexibility!  We had a lot of learning going on, just not so much in our work boxes! 

Color sorting…I printed some color cards (these are actually from the educationcubes.com website, I accidently printed them too small for the cubes, so I found another use for them).  The tins are magnet spice tins from Ikea that I use to have scrapbooking embellishments in, but am no longer using.  I have them on a cookie sheet.  I was originally planning to make a counting game with them, and then thought…”why not use them for other things too”, I dug through our art supplies and pulled out some pom poms, and we have a color sorting game.  If you wanted to add some fine motor to this you could add chopsticks or tweezers.  You could easily use a 6 cup muffin tin as well. 

Here is the apricot Costco container again.  This time he has little dinosaur figures for one-to-one correspondence.

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