One Day Easter Event

At the beginning of our one day Easter event class, the children gave us beautiful and creative hand-made good-bye gifts. And then everyone sang "Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes".

Thank you! We loved the song and we love the gifts!

We were lucky to have nice weather for our one day Easter event.


Singing "Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes".


Walking to the field to play "Duck Duck Goose".


Making grilled ham and cheese sandwiches.


Our Easter eggs.


Finding Easter Bunny treats in the forest!

tNt

Signs of Spring

These are some signs of spring:
-pussy willows (nekoyanagi)
-ladybugs (tentomushi)
-baby pony Bella Luna ("beautiful moon" in Italian and "kirei na tsuki in Japanese)
-butterflies (chocho)
And butterburs (fukinoto)!

We went to the river to pick butterburs.


We washed butterburs.


We fried butterburs.


We made butterbur tempura.


Butterburs are a little bit bitter (nigai) but they are yummy!
tNt

Fire and Bannock

Today we made a fire all by ourselves. It was very warm.

And then we made bannock.

Here is the Recipe!
Ingredients:
2 c (cups) flour
1/2 tsp (teaspoon) salt
1/2 tsp sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 c cold water

Method:
Mix all the dry ingredients together. Then add the water and mix quickly until you have a smooth batter. Heat oil in a pan over the hot fire. Pour the batter in the pan and cook until both sides are brown. You can check to see if the inside is cooked by poking a toothpick (haburashi) in the middle of the bannock. If the toothpick comes out clean, it is ready!






The bannock was yummy!

tNt

First Day of Spring

Happy first day of Spring everyone!

On the evening of March 18, the first baby pony was born on the Hiratasan horse ranch.



Julia's baby, (Janet's sister), is very cute. She is dark brown and she has a white spot on her forehead.

We enjoyed visiting her and some of the other horses and ponies.






tNt

Head and Shoulders

Let's sing!

Head and shoulders knees and toes
Knees and toes
Head and shoulders knees and toes
Knees and toes
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose
Head and shoulders knees and toes
Knees and toes!

tNt

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to tNt Adventures in English.
Here are some photos from our classes last week.



Riding the snowmobile!




Going under the stick.


Showing Fujiumi nekoyanagi (pussy willows).

tNt

Christmas Fun

We chopped down the Christmas tree.
And then we carried it to the cabin and decorated it with our homemade dried lemons and popcorn garlands.

Merry Christmas everyone.
See you next year!

tNt