Homework tomorrow, return books

Hi everyone -
TOO busy!! So I think we'll pass on homework this week. Check through your BrainQuest book and if you have any pages left to do in the math word problems section, please do those. Also the sections we did before -- addition/subtraction and multiplication/division. Check those and finish up any parts that you haven't done.

We haven't had a library table for a long time, and I won't be around to supervise it for the next 2 months or so. Tomorrow, let's just return the books that we borrowed around Christmas time. Don't worry about bringing more to lend this time, just check around your house for any books you have borrowed from the library table and return them.

Ok?!

See you tomorrow!

Homework for January 17

Hi everybody! A couple of homework pages for you -- Nina asked for Math homework, and I wanted to do reading homework, so I have compromised! Please do the math word problems on pages 252, 253, 254 and 255!

See you Saturday -

Christie

Homework for January 9

Hi everybody! As far as I know, everyone is back in the country after winter break. Did you all have a good holiday? I hope we'll see everyone at Kidz Group on Saturday. Big Kidz, I would like you to do a little journal writing to share with us on Saturday. Write in your notebooks about at least 3 things you did during your winter break. I would like you to explain a little about each one, too. For example:

I did a lot of homework.
I played with some friends at Ohori Park.
I went to my Grandma's house on January 1.

These sentences are not enough. I'd like to see something like this:

I had lots of homework to do. I worked on it for about 30 minutes every day, and I finally finished it the day before we went back to school. I didn't mind doing the math, but I didn't like studying kanji characters!

In my free time I did lots of different things. A few times I went to Ohori Park to meet my school friends, which was lots of fun. We spent a lot of time riding our bikes and we played soccer, too.

On January 1 my Mom, Dad, sister and I went to Kumamoto to see my Grandma. She lives in a big, old house. It was really cold! But Grandma is good at cooking, and we had lots of good food while we were there.

See you Saturday!

Mochi Tsuki at the farm

Happy New Year everyone! With many of our members away for the holidays I was worried we wouldn't have enough rice pounders at the farm, but Richie, Jojo, Sophie, Maya, and Hide-san's kids and cousins did a great job! Here are some pictures of the big day...

There was LOTS of mochi to enjoy -- we had it with sweetened soy sauce, with grated daikon and soy sauce, or just plain!