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Slide 2 ITS A WONDERFUL WORLD! By Lisa Demangeat 1st GRADE PROJECT WEEK 2015 Slide 3 For Project Week You are going to take an imaginary trip to an amazing country. Lets see if you can guess which country. Here are some clues It has one of the fastest trains in the world. Comic books are called mangas. Pikachu, Hello Kitty and Ninja Turtles come from there. People eat a lot of raw fish (sushi), rice and drink tea. Slide 4 Did you guess Japan? Yoku yatta That means BRAVO in Japanese! Slide 5 What are we waiting for? Lets fly to Japan! DONT FORGET YOUR CHOPSTICKS Slide 6 I wonder what well see. Slide 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =F-i94BQBpII Kon'nichiwa (Hello in Japanese) CLICK ON THIS LINK to discover Japan! HELLO Japan! Slide 8 This is Tokyo. Its the capital of Japan. Over 12 million people live there. Look! Thats Mount Fuji. Its the largest mountain in Japan.. Mount Fuji is actually a volcano. Slide 9 Come, lets see the sites in Tokyo! S get on the metro Lets jump on the Panda bus! Slide 10 This is the Tokyo Tower. Its the tallest tower in the world. Does it look familiar? Yes! It was copied from the Eiffel Tower, but it is 13 meters highe r. Slide 11 S get on the metro The Imperial Family of Japan lives there! S get on the metro This is the Imperial Palace and its garden. Slide 12 Oh wow! Theres even a Tokyo Disneyland! Kon'nichiwa Mickey! Slide 13 But mostly people wear the same clothes as you and me. Look at how the Japanese people are dressed! Children wear uniforms to school. People wear old fashioned kimonos for weddings and festivals. Some teenagers like to dress in a wild style called Harajuku. Slide 14 All this site seeing has made me hungry ! what can we eat in Japan? Slide 15 Because Japan is an island, we eat a lot of fish! We also eat rice at every meal. But not only Slide 16 What will you order to eat? Mochi Udon: soup with meat and noodles Sushi and rolls Raw fish, rice and seaweed Higashi Traditional candies Fish shaped Japanese sweets filled with red bean jam Yakisoba-pan Bread with fried soba noodles Rice cakes filled with red bean jam. Taiyaki Slide 17 This is also food! Its mostly made out of rice. Thats Me! Kon'nichiwa Me! Does this mean we can play with our food? Slide 18 We love tea. And drink it with almost every meal! Tea is so important we have special tea ceremonies. http://youtu.be/d5zXbOLwb_g Watch a little boy learn about the tea ceremony. Slide 19 Now lets visit the beautiful Japanese countryside. Lets take the bullet train called the Shinkansen. Its one of the fastest trains in the world. Slide 20 This is what some homes in the countryside look like. The Japanese roofs are usually sloped off because it rains a lot. Slide 21 Lets go inside a Japanese home and see what it looks like. But first you must take off your shoes! Look closely, how is it different from your house? Slide 22 The cherry blossom is Japans national flower. Is that snow? No,those are the cherry blossoms falling ! Slide 23 People of Japan have festivals to celebrate the sakura (cherry blossom). It means its the arrival of spring. Slide 24 Japan is known for their beautiful paper lanterns. You will see them in homes, shops and festivals. There is even a special lantern festival called Orb. Lanterns for the cherry blossom festival. Floating lanterns for the Orb festival. Lanterns to decorate homes and shops. Slide 25 What other special celebrations happen in Japan? YES! Childrens Day (Kodomo No Hi) is a national holiday! On May 5 th Kids dont have to go to school and their parents dont go to work. Its a day to celebrate a childs happiness. HURRAY! NO SCHOOL! Lets Party! Slide 26 Parents want their children to be strong like a carp. What will we see on Childrens Day? On Childrens Day we eat mochi (rice cakes filled with red bean jam). Because Carp are so strong! They can swim up a waterfall. You will see carp fish flags (koinobori) everywhere. WHY CARP FISH ? Slide 27 Things to know if you visit Japan! Did you know these sports are Japanese? Can you name them? Melons can cost over 200 euro! The money is called Yen. Slide 28 To learn how to write your name in Japanese, go to one of these links. http://www.getmyname.in/what-is-Baptiste-in-japanese http://apps.nolanlawson.com/japanese-name-converter http://www.sljfaq.org/cgi/e2k.cgi?word Slide 29 Time to fly back home! Just in time for Project Week I wonder what well make. It could be something fishy And light up your life! Slide 30 Saynara GOODBYE Slide 31 Childrens day videos: Carp streamer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIc36oPCyg&list=PLodUCoHv1RWXIFDXozrEo--uhlc_cyMXA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHnHjajDijo&index=4&list=PLodUCoHv1RWXIFDXozrEo--uhlc_cyMXA Count to 20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3won-7W3Js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3won-7W3Js Tanabata star festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ZV7uJsRrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ZV7uJsRrc Alphabet song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAfi3D9K7lk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAfi3D9K7lk Colors http://youtu.be/Z6b1DjPq6zIhttp://youtu.be/Z6b1DjPq6zI Additional links Learn Japanese Learn more Japanese http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/language/lesson1/lesson1_01.html http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/language/lesson1/lesson1_01.html