Happy New Year!

We had the first class of this year and everyone came to school in good health!

May this year be filled with many happy moments!

When we asked the Joey friends "Did you eat mochi rice cakes?"

They unanimously replied  "Yes!", "No!", "I ate sweet ones!", etc.

As YGK friends had sticky rice pounding in their classrooms, we could see a real mortar and a pounder!

We also tried to hold the pounder in our hands and pounded the sticky rice in the mortar.

Everyone was so excited!

During art time, we made Kagami mochi, an offering rice cake for new year celebration.

Let's knead play dough, make a shape of Kagami-mochi and put an orange on top.

We enjoyed the New Year mood!