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November

Beginning in November, the children go on a sweet potato satsuma-mo dig at a local farm.  It is harvest time, enjoyed throughout Japan.  Prior to the field experience, the classes learn about sweet potatoes, the vocabulary for the parts of a sweet potato plant and where and how they grow.  After the sweet potato dig, classes participate in cooking, using the potatoes for art activities, sorting, measuring, studying and in writing.

Shi-Chi-Go-San is a celebration for 3 and 7 year old girls and 5 year old boys in November.  The name is derived from the ages of the children: seven, five and three.  They dress up in Kimono and visit shrines to pray.  Some activities at the ELC will include discussions on the celebration, drawing and decorating candy bags, folding, origami pouches, dressing up in Kimono and reading Kamishibai Shi-Chi-Go-San Congratulations book.