Grandfather's Journey & Japan

This week, we're learning about topics from the book, Grandfather's Journey. The kids are learning about Japan, California, trains, origami and more!

On Monday, they watched a Netflix movie about origmi. It was intriguing and showed lots of amazing origimi creatures including a dragon that had 1000 scales and took HUNDREDS of hours to fold! They were excited to try it themselves...we finally did it today, not the 1000 scales on the dragon though!!!

They made fun origami animals today thanks to the instructions from a library book called Origami Zoo. They took turns picking what animal to make & thankfully chose the "very simple" or "simple" ones. We had enough trouble with the simple ones, though I may try an "advanced" one just for fun tonight after they're in bed. :o)

Frogs...

Butterflies...A mouse...eek!

We watched this video to learn a few words in Japanese. K loves kiwi and thought it was fun to hear the same word said in Japanese. We also watched a really goofy Japanese game show clip so the kids could hear a lot of Japanese being said at once.

We searched for Japan (and especially the city of Tokyo) on Google Earth. The kids enjoyed watching the globe turn and "fly" us across the Pacific Ocean to the islands of Japan. :) We were able to go to the street level in the city and they discovered Tokyo looks a lot like big cities in our country. We were able to move the mouse around and see the mountains in the country, too.