The theme of January was Japanese culture. all the students did “kakizome”.
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The Seal Class students rubbed an ink stick to make “sumi” (black ink) and all the students enjoyed writing on “shikishi” paper with real black ink (sumi).
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They worked carefully and touched the “suzuri” (ink stone) with the special paint brush. The Seal Class wrote ”龍” in kanji. They did a great job!
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