One of the things we like about our kindergarten is that our son gets to experience all kinds of activities. This year there has been soccer, potato digging, art exhibition visit, a visit to the rescue and emergency center. And just before the winter holidays he got to go ice skating for the first time. […]
This September, my son and I started to participate in online classes organized by Swedish school in Tokyo. My son has joined a group where the focus is to better learn letters, easy reading and writing as well as general Swedish culture. He has really enjoyed being part of this group with other Swedish speaking
Living in a multicultural family, I want our son to whenever possible experience the cultures that both of his parent’s grew up in. I do my best to highlight Swedish traditions in our home, and when we visit Sweden he gets plenty of that. But equally important to me is to value the Japanese cultural
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
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 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
A long holiday is coming to an end. Rainy days, too hot days – summer is interesting in many ways here in Japan (though we are still waiting for this year’s first typhoon) and the time spent indoors has been quite extensive. So to make everyday life feel new we have tried to make something