We started out the week by focusing a little on China. We read this book and...
We also tried writing some chinese characters by making little number books.
C1 and C2 also learned about the Opium Wars and the affects of that on China. They were both very disturbed.
Then we moved on to Japan and we made orgami...this is a canoe
this is a samurai hat!
Historically, we studied the time period where Millard Fillmore was president and Japan had closed itself off from trading with other countries. Commodore Matthew Perry was influencial during that time in strengthening trade relations with the Japanese as we learned in this book:
L read this cute book which got us excited to.....
celebrate the unit by going out to a Japanese meal!
The boys have eaten Chinese many times, but never Japanese, so we took them to lunch at Kanki. Wow, was it a great time! They LOVED it and can't wait to go back.
We had a great chef, he did all kinds of tricks for the kids!
C2 was amazed!
When the chef did this....
L ran and hid behind my chair for the remainder of the cooking portion!
When he finally came out, he dug right in!
J's favorite part is always dessert!
On the way out we passed the Lego Store, had to go in!
It was a wonderful study!
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