One of the things I like most about our son’s kindergarten, is the different events they arrange during the year. The end of school year recital where the children perform, the summer concert, the sports day and then in autumn the art exhibition. This year a theme of our son’s class has been play with […]
It has been a year and a half since our son started to go to kindergarten by bus. Except for the too hot summer months when we hide in the shade of a tree playing name-the-car-games, we have made a morning reading routine out of waiting for the bus. Looking back at the first time
If I had to choose between the seasons, I would choose autumn. The colors, the air, the cool after a long hot summer, nabe (Japanese hot pot), and most of all the mountains. When we were living in Tokyo I always took the train to go and enjoy the mountains outside of Tokyo in autumn.
We had been talking about Halloween for weeks and weeks. We sorted the LEGO, collected all the black, orange and purple pieces, built Halloween houses and cars. We took out the decorations saved from previous years and put around the house. – What in particular are you looking forward to with Halloween? I asked. –
Every October, there is autumn cleaning going on everywhere. The parks are getting their final trim of the year and people are tidying up what is left of the summer from their gardens. Now that the temperature has dropped and nature’s extreme growing power has slowed down, it really feels quite satisfying to clean up
It has been hot this summer. It has ben hot this fall. Even with my limited experience of life in Japan I have felt it to be a special year, and when I talk to others many say that they cannot remember a summer like this. So what does a 5-year-old boy want to do
Every autumn, our son’s kindergarten organizes a sports day for the children. The practice for this day begins after the summer holidays and the children work hard every day to prepare for the sports day when parents and relatives come to watch and join in some activities. This year our son, now being in the
Ever so often, when I try to convince my son of doing something he does not want to do, like putting the LEGO that is spread out all over the floor, into boxes before going to bed, we end up in a never ending loop of questions and answers. He asks why, I explain, he
This has been a year of dinosaurs – it started with the trip home from Sweden together with a big toy dinosaur. After that we have been to the dinosaur museum, we have created a home made dinosaur card game, the birthday wish was for a toy dinosaur, and every night for four months now
Our son has for a long time dreamt of getting a radio-controlled car to play with. After having visited a friend’s place, getting to play with the friend’s RC cars, the longing grew stronger and stronger and so when his mum was going on a longer business trip and asked our son if there was
Although autumn is not here, the first autumn cold seems to be. Just as my wife had to go on a business trip, and I had some photography work to do, my son got a cold and had to stay at home from kindergarten. I did not want him to spend the days just watching
Although we have already entered September, with summer holidays over and kindergarten’s second trimester having started, autumn is still nowhere in sight. It has been hot hot and this weekend when it was time for this year’s summer festival in the nearby park, was no exception. My son has been looking forward to this festival