Japanese Cooking

P6 Room 17 have been cooking our own Japanese food and Mr M was tasting our food.  Some of us made sushi, sweet potatoes, noodles and Japanese pancakes.

Ingredients for suchi (seaweed, rice, raw fish and tuna)

Ingredients for sweet potato (condensed milk, sugar, butter and sweet potato)

You can find more recipes here.  http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/cook/index.html

Tangrams

We have been learning about tangrams in our class.  tangrams are different sized shapes that fit together to make a picture of anything.  First you make sure you can make a square using all of your shapes.  In tangrams you have to use all your shapes in every tangram you make.  This is a great website that shows you how to cut out and form shapes for your tangrams. You can find some really cool tangrams that you can make simply.  If you find it too hard you can click solution and it will tell you how to do it.
http://www.tangrams.ca/index.htm
We watched the Japanese animated film 'Laughing Moon' which is all made from tangrams.  It was really funny.

Cross Country 21st November 09

CROSS COUNTRY

The next race is on Saturday 21st November 09. Details are listed
below.

VENUE
Craigend Visitor Centre, Mugdock Country Park, near
Milngavie

RACE TIME Primary 5 Boys and Girls – 2.2km – 10am
Primary 6 Boys and Girls –
2.2km – 10.20am
Primary 7 Boys and Girls –
2.2km – 10.40am
All distances approximate

ENTRY FEE £2 per athlete per race

RESULTS Results will also be posted on the
internet at www.garscubeharriers.co.uk Click on the Downloads page.

Names and money have to be given
to school by Thursday 19th November AT THE LATEST as names have to be
forwarded to the event organizers.

RM 17 manga

We were learning about Manga which is the japanese style of comic book drawings. Manga is different to most of our traditional drawings because the hair styles mostly used on Manga drawings is made up of big, thick clumps of hair and the eyes on Manga drawings are much bigger than most of our drawings but other facial features such as nose and mouth are very small compared to the eyes!
    In class we are watching a Manga film called Howls Moving Castle. It has a great plot so we are always eager to watch on! It is about a wizard named Howl who has a walking castle. There is a girl named Sophie, who works in a hat shop and gets turned into an old aged pensioner by the Wicked Witch of the Waste! Will Sophie ever lift the curse?

Japanese Art Work.

On Friday 4th November our class made a carp streamer each. Carp Streamers are used to represent when a baby is born, and they are put up all over Japan on Childrens Day!
             We also tried out some Japanese block prints of  the great wave. Block prints were invented by a Japanese artist called Hokusai. Block prints are very easy and quick to make and that meant from then on it was much easier to aford paintings to display around your house and local places.
             We are aiming to make 1000 paper cranes, so our class are trying to make 500 paper cranes so the other P6 class can make another 500, and then we'll reach... 1000!

Kimono Dress Up

2 weeks ago we got kimonos + happy jackets sent to us from the Japanese Embassy in London. We have started wearing them and they are comfortable and cool! Our teacher Mr M wore one and it was really funny+ awesome! It's hard to tie the kimonos but they colourful. You can get men and women kimonos. Happi jackets are a bit like normal short jackets but they are colourful +  have patterns on them.