Month: September 2010

Otsukimi Party 2010

今日は中秋の名月お月見団子作りです。まずはお部屋を片付けて準備開始！

Otsukimi Party

In Japan, September is well renowned for the beautiful view of the full moon. During the full moon in September, we make dumplings filled with sweet bean paste and roll them in fine soybean flour. It doesn’t sound very nice when you explain it in English, but they are actually quite tasty.

Otsukimi Party

初めてのコネコネで最初はびっくり！でもやってみたら楽しかったよ。

Otsukimi Party

毎年やってるから慣れた手つきでしょう。
We do this every year so the older Deedee Deer students take the lead and show how it’s done.
Otsukimi Party

When all the dangos were made, we posed by our creations with a lovely September themed flower arrangement and then ate then for our mid-morning snack.

Otsukimi Party

Our trip to the aquarium 2010

Our field trip to the aquarium
We had planned to collect chestnuts at a farm in Korankei for our autumn field trip this year. It rained the whole week before we were scheduled to go, so we resorted to “Plan B”, which was a  field trip to “Aquatoto Aquarium ” in Gifu prefecture.
bus_to_aquarium
秋の遠足は”栗ひろい”にチャレンジのはずが、あいにく当日雨が降りアクアトト岐阜へ出かけることになりました。

We were able to get up really close and take a good look at many fish, including very large and unusual fish from all over the world.
aqurium_fish
身近な生物たちの他、珍しい魚もいっぱいで、子供達もたいそう興味深く観察していました。seal_feeding

ランチは施設内のレストランへ。貸し切り状態だった為、いつものLunch Songを歌いました。食事の際はお店の人もびっくりする位お利口さんでした。
aquarium_lunch

After viewing all the different types of fish and the seal show we had lunch at one of the restaurants at the aquarium complex.  We had the whole place to ourselves and we sang our usual lunch song, much to the delight of the restaurant staff.

When we were leaving, the manager of the restaurant ran after us to express how impressed they were at how well behaved our students were during lunchtime.

さすがBeanstalk students!!