Indispensable Item for primary school #4

 

Red-and-White CAP

Although a red-and-white cap is  standard uniform when Japanese elementary school students take gym class, we are very conscious of Red or White on sports festival day!!!

Japanese elementary school students split into Red team and White team at sports festival. Then we compete in a variety of games, then determine whether Red or White won. This style is longstanding sports festival style.

Red and White are the Japanese flag color, Red and White are also festive colors in Japan.
But, at sports festival, almost Japanese imagine Red flag and White flag of the Genpei war what is the civil war that happened about 830 years ago.
Because, we have the special match called KIBASEN game toward the end of the sports festival.
  
KIBASEN game is a game which the man who lift 3 people to his feet scrambles for a red-and-white cap.
Survivor's players decide victory or defeat by single combat. That is excited very much.
After sports festival day, early elementary school children who were thrilled by KIBASWN of 5^th and 6^th graders start to ape KIBASEN. So did my son, too!
 

Indispensable Item for preschooler

Edison chopsticks

Edison chopsticks is the training chopsticks for preschooler etc.

We can use this very easily, only have to insert each finger into rings. We just use it until hold chopsticks correctly becomes second nature. There are for right-handers and left-handers.

When child can’t use chopsticks correctly, they have to use Edison chopsticks at Coo’s preschool. So Edison chopsticks is an indispensable item!!! When I and Coo went to the park near the preschool with two Coo’s friends, all children use the same Edison chopsticks…

Of course there is Edison chopsticks for adult who become hold chopsticks strange gradually, like Roo. It is hard to keep a good second nature…

Indispensable Item for primary school #3

Special notebooks

Japanese primary schoolers use different workbooks by grades or subjects.

Japanese workbooks are divided into some squares. Furthermore, workbooks for Japanese and Kanji (Chinese character) are drawn supporting lines in each square.

After I told my son “When I was a primary schooler, we had to write Kanji on a full-page every day”, my son tried to practice it in the same way. But it is only 3 days…

His character is becoming like my personality that give up easily. I don’t tell Roo.

Roo, you didn’t have to resemble it…