Weekly Wrap UP 9/28/18--Japanese Festival

Every year we attend the Japanese festival at our local Botanical Garden.  Every year they present something different for us to see.  This year was no different.  Since Firedrake is learning Japanese and loves all things Japanese we usually stay for quite a while.  This year since we are wrapping up our Japanese History unit with MarioFan we tried to find some activities that concentrated on older Japanese traditions:)

I took MarioFan to see some things while my husband took Firedrake to see a few things that interested her.  It was brutally hot that day!

Learning origami 

I love the bonsai exhibit!

and the Ikebana flower arranging

Traveling musicians that came all they way from Japan to perform at the festival 

A Japanese dance troop who preform everything

Opening the Saki Container which we were told was made by a Japanese family  since the 1600's 

Watching the drum and dragon dance at the opening ceremony

Kids learning some spinning top tricks 

Ice sculpture demonstration it was either a horse or a dragon but we were to far away 

A Ninja warrior came all the way from Japan to demonstrate fighting techniques and weapons.

We learned there is a museum in Japan all about the history of Ninja warriors.  One day we hope to visit.

Lastly we watch the type of fighting used during the feudal era of Japan.

This was the type of fighting the samurai were trained on. 

We had a wonderful day at the festival and we always learn something new and one day the children want to visit Japan.  Since my husband and daughter went off on their own I don't have pictures of what they saw but was told my daughter wanted to see the music demonstration of traditional musical instruments and manga performance:)