tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61713840948008071552024-03-20T08:23:55.347+00:00Godzilla's DenMr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-65085597331665511592010-03-25T18:45:00.012+00:002010-08-31T20:07:00.048+01:00Are you brave enough to enter Godzilla's Den?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We are over the moon to announce that our wee website has won two national prizes in the<a href="http://www.japanwebpagecontest.org.uk/vote/"> Japan Web Page Contest</a>. We have won one of the two Runner-Up prizes and we collected the most votes to scoop the Public Vote award. This is an amazing achievement and pupils, staff and parents are all equally as excited about the results. Two representatives from the school have been invited to the Japanese Embassy in London to receive the awards. Photos and report will follow...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="375" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/8205488?byline=0&portrait=0&color=ff9933" width="500"></iframe>Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-69093424458184528792010-03-25T13:58:00.002+00:002010-03-25T19:16:05.790+00:00Japanese Sports<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibkGypb-T0hNP5RwOtXpV5LDlGUumOAmD-i6r5cISd11fCJq3EoKySkypTLFtAVQgCClZOmbggC5gdaKn85BFUp0FR525ZNADmTmnaQEyclHpxEYYaeS0bDFp1lSLf243qIGnP5wn-B20/s1600/IMG_0758.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibkGypb-T0hNP5RwOtXpV5LDlGUumOAmD-i6r5cISd11fCJq3EoKySkypTLFtAVQgCClZOmbggC5gdaKn85BFUp0FR525ZNADmTmnaQEyclHpxEYYaeS0bDFp1lSLf243qIGnP5wn-B20/s400/IMG_0758.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>There are many sports in Japan. The main ones are sumo wrestling, judo and kendo. They are all very popular in Japan. Baseball is a major sport in Japan. There are 12 professional baseball teams. Six teams are in the central league and six in the pacific league. Both teams play at least 140 games each season and at the end two winning teams meet in the Japan series.<br />
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<b>Martial arts</b><br />
The most popular sports in Japan are Judo, Kendo and Aikido. Men came from a local judo club to teach us some judo. It was a lot like wrestling. They taught us that judo is one of the most popular sports in Japan and that judo means 'gentle way.' We had to say 'Hajime' at the start. It means 'begin.' <br />
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<b>Sumo wrestling</b> <br />
Is the national sport in Japan and it has been around for more 1,000 years. A sumo wrestler has to weigh between 100-200 grams and their hair is styled as an ancient warrior. Rikishi is the Japanese for sumo wrestler. The aim of sumo wrestling is to make his Aponte touch the ground before you. There are more than 80 ways to win!Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-7259303639039024472010-03-25T13:47:00.001+00:002010-03-25T19:14:09.618+00:00Lunchtime Book Club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WZIKmAMABccxHFc058p1grurq0_jJ_UMv6chkhnHjO7tOYadsaHHO0hdnAlf13mISESLE55qzcKwDVrpLvv5uPHHhT81uOFKnYO-VCHs3zybltGg0mwfr8eChP9-eiSbWRR2oSM4nUA/s1600/downloads_wallpaper_scene_800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WZIKmAMABccxHFc058p1grurq0_jJ_UMv6chkhnHjO7tOYadsaHHO0hdnAlf13mISESLE55qzcKwDVrpLvv5uPHHhT81uOFKnYO-VCHs3zybltGg0mwfr8eChP9-eiSbWRR2oSM4nUA/s400/downloads_wallpaper_scene_800.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>In our class our teacher has started up a lunchtime book club where we meet, read books, select our favourite parts and talk about them. Our first book, relating to the Japan topic is a book called Young Samurai.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youngsamurai.com/">Young Samurai</a> is a book, by Chris Bradford, about a boy called Jack who reached the wondrous lands of Japan after a long voyage out at sea. He, his father, and the rest of the crew, are ambushed on their boat by ninjas under the command of an evil Japanese ninja, Dragon Eye!<br />
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He is rescued by the legendry sword master, Masamoto Takeshi, who adopts Jack after his son, Tenno, dies. Jack is left with his father’s rutter, which stores all the possible ways, and shortcuts, of the seas! He masters the way of the warrior at Masamoto’s samurai training school and prepares to defeat Dragon Eye!<br />
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The next book, after the way of the warrior, is Young Samurai, The way of the Sword! In this book Jack starts to train for the legendry Samurai competition The Circle of Three, in which he has to master ‘the way of the sword’ and, as a result, he completes it, keeping in mind that he was kicked out of the training school!Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-79596366573924987582010-03-22T20:40:00.003+00:002010-03-24T11:43:44.160+00:00A Short History of Mario!<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47838239@N02/4389835435/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Vestido de Super Mario (Autor ”Flickr” d by Luis Ballesteros Cortijo, on Flickr" border="0" height="300" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4389835435_6a3841f975.jpg" title="Vestido de Super Mario (Autor ”Flickr” d by Luis Ballesteros Cortijo, on Flickr" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Through the years, there have been many games like Mega Man and <br />
Contra. But there has been one game that has made loads of new games <br />
and that game is Super Mario. Mario’s first appearance was in Donkey <br />
Kong from 1981 and then made an extremely big game called Super Mario <br />
World. Then Mario got a big brother named Luigi in Super Mario Bros and <br />
what some people do not know is that Princess Peach was originally named <br />
Pauline in Donkey Kong and was also named Princess Toad Stool.<br />
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<b>Worst Mario Game and Movie </b><br />
Throughout the ages of Super Mario, there has been a lame Mario <br />
game called Super Mario 2. In that game, you have a choice of <br />
characters which are Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and a mushroom called <br />
Toad. Now. I know what your thinking. How could this be a lousy Mario <br />
Game? Well in this game the main enemies are Shy Guys, Ba Bombs and the <br />
main villain is a giant toad named Wart, but did you also know that a <br />
game called Okey Dokey Panic had actually the same version of Super <br />
Mario 2! They also made a Super Mario Bros movie which was the <br />
biggest rip off since Mortal Combat, because in the movie we don’t get <br />
to see the Mushroom Kingdom and the fact is that the Koopa Family look <br />
like stupid little bugs! So all I have to say is that these two Mario <br />
versions are big rip offs!<br />
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<b>Large Amount of Mario Characters!</b><br />
Through the years Nintendo has introduced new Mario characters, <br />
here are some of them:<br />
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• Wario and Waluigi, Mario and Luigi’s evil rivals<br />
• Petey Piranha, a big mutated plant with sharp jaws<br />
• Bowser Jr, Bowser’s son!<br />
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Names of the Mario Games [1981 – 2009]<br />
Through the ages, there have been loads of names for Mario <br />
games, like :<br />
• Donkey Kong<br />
• Donkey Kong Jr<br />
• Super Mario World<br />
• Super Mario Bros.<br />
• Mario Is Missing<br />
• Mario’s Time Machine<br />
• Smash Brothers Brawl<br />
• Super Mario Sunshine<br />
• Super Mario Galaxy<br />
• Super Mario 2<br />
• Super Mario 3<br />
• Super Mario All Stars<br />
• Mario 64<br />
• New Super Mario Bros Wii<br />
• Warning; the order of these games are random!<br />
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GOODBYE!!! (From Nintendo and Mario!)Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-24040695509925344662010-03-21T22:53:00.009+00:002010-03-25T23:07:37.328+00:00Godzilla's Den!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRdnPiiqiO17BiENI8SAgwhtYkkkrxx4pTLxf6YDincRc0rDeFMgQKFOw3EmTUzlTuyN5ZQrvLc1ep38xIeNA38EKToRFruC75FPF0OfFZblUKGZ-cBZy2ahl7c1FmwZfkJlHBrGK6_kw/s1600-h/IMG_0685.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRdnPiiqiO17BiENI8SAgwhtYkkkrxx4pTLxf6YDincRc0rDeFMgQKFOw3EmTUzlTuyN5ZQrvLc1ep38xIeNA38EKToRFruC75FPF0OfFZblUKGZ-cBZy2ahl7c1FmwZfkJlHBrGK6_kw/s400/IMG_0685.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD0eENudiD9d1kZld_ACnRKke9Q1Qb02bh2fogzhbuPMyJpPogooBABWWZ-CqWo5mOnbYdv6CPwWY8Dg9Or9169V_PA2OxDRlvX2AGhC8i9rrRtyr2bI4l3qnFUl6BzSNvPG3TtVwMNf4/s1600/IMG_0684.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD0eENudiD9d1kZld_ACnRKke9Q1Qb02bh2fogzhbuPMyJpPogooBABWWZ-CqWo5mOnbYdv6CPwWY8Dg9Or9169V_PA2OxDRlvX2AGhC8i9rrRtyr2bI4l3qnFUl6BzSNvPG3TtVwMNf4/s400/IMG_0684.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><b>DESIGNING AND MAKING THE VIDEO GAMES</b><br />
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The character group designed all the enemies, points and characters while the level group designed all the levels and goals. We also had to include a bonus level to collect points at the end of the game. <br />
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<b>PRESENTING TO THE GODZILLAS</b><br />
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When the day came to present it to the Godzillas most of the class was feeling excited and the rest were feeling excited and nervous at the same time and when they walked in to the room we all sang <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfM80xlY3Sc">Blue Oyster Cult’s "Go Go Godzilla!!!"</a> Then we all presented our games.<br />
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At the end of each presentation the Godzillas asked us a few questions about our video games and told us about the things that they enjoyed about the presentations and we got to ask them a few questions about making games, playing games and reviewing games.<br />
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<b>RECORDING THE PRESENTATIONS AS A MOVIE</b><br />
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In another group’s animation you're running through Tokyo trying to defeat Ishi who is an evil midget who works for Yon Yang that wants to make Mount Fudgie erupt (Mount Fuji but it erupts fudge)!!!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCfeYK-doK5FJ3KUbRva_dhoZjgnmDm-4zWWSH7AAVumi5EODfi5tNMO5mEHALbF1vT2l7ve6fFqaYn2qIbjmfuCH-LfVbnUBsMQH492QK-uSIS5nTk-SBlauZSZjJQtclQfe_e3PWw48/s1600-h/IMG_0938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCfeYK-doK5FJ3KUbRva_dhoZjgnmDm-4zWWSH7AAVumi5EODfi5tNMO5mEHALbF1vT2l7ve6fFqaYn2qIbjmfuCH-LfVbnUBsMQH492QK-uSIS5nTk-SBlauZSZjJQtclQfe_e3PWw48/s400/IMG_0938.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga">Manga </a>is the Japanese comic that is for all ages to read and made in all topics. <a href="http://tezukaosamu.net/en/about/index.html">Osamu Tezuka</a> is the creator of Astro Boy one of Japans most famous manga characters. Astroboy wore tight black pants, green belt, red boots, no top he had black hair and brown eyes. <br />
Manga characters have big eyes and small noses. First you draw an egg shape for the head and put one line down the middle and two lines across the way. Manga characters also have big pupils and their nose is drawn low down to their mouth.<br />
Manga characters have ziggy zaggy and wavy hair. They will almost never have ginger hair or curly hair in Japan because it is very unusual.Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-64736782797762306872010-03-21T22:31:00.016+00:002010-03-24T20:17:25.420+00:00Food<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/55935853@N00/4098257789/" target="_blank"><img alt="Bento Cafe, Camden Town, London by Ewan-M, on Flickr" border="0" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2531/4098257789_c95111d7de.jpg" title="Bento Cafe, Camden Town, London by Ewan-M, on Flickr" /></a><br />
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The Japanese word for meal is gohan. Gohan actually means 'steamed rice' but the Japanese use it so much that it is part of almost every meal! Some of the foods they like to eat are sushi, which is raw fish rolled up in a seaweed wrap, sashimi, which is raw fish and vegetables, rice, okonomiyaki, which is a pancake filled with many different ingredients, (okonomi means as you like and yaki means fried so it makes as you like it fried) soba and udon noodles. Japanese also like miso soup and they are very keen on deserts they call wagashi. They eat sweet pancakes a lot and they sometimes shape some of the icing into traditional Japanese characters. Japanese children take things called bento boxes to school instead of lunchboxes. Their parents make their fruit and vegetables shaped like their childs favourite characters like Mario and Luigi. <br />
Japanese bento boxes usually contain: ongiri = rice balls, furikake = dried fish flakes, pickles, curry, sausages, tofu, dumplings, teriyaki, kebabs, sushi and bitesized vegetables and fruit. <br />
Our lunchboxes contain: sandwiches, juice, crisps, fruit, vegetables, chocolate, cheese and salami.<br />
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As you can see, the Japanese diet is very different from the British diet and they tend to have a bigger variety than us. Bento boxes are set into different sections for different things usually they are fruit and vegetables, main food and dessert. There are some amazing recipes for Japanese food on <a href="http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/cook/index.html%20">http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/cook/index.html </a><br />
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<div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/avlxyz/206804375/" target="_blank"><img alt="Sushi Deluxe - Sushi Ten by avlxyz, on Flickr" border="0" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/206804375_1d6e96d459.jpg" title="Sushi Deluxe - Sushi Ten by avlxyz, on Flickr" /></a><br />
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" target="_blank"><img align="left" alt="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License" border="0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/2.0/80x15.png" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License" /></a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/avlxyz/" target="_blank"> avlxyz</a><a href="http://www.imagecodr.org/" target="_blank"> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>In class, for our Japanese topic we were trying out different Japanese foods, like sushi, wasabi peas, dried cuttlefish and lots of traditional Japanese foods!<br />
Once again our class topic expert, Fai, brought in sushi for us to try and occasionally different dips with mixed soya sauce that they would use in Japan. Our teacher also bought lots of Japanese foods from the different Chinese and Japanese Stores like China town. We loved the wide range of foods that we did manage to grab hold of. Altogether in class we thought that Japanese foods were lovely! <br />
Sushi is raw fish surrounded by sticky rice and rolled in seaweed, or it can just be raw fish rapped in seaweed, so the main ingredients are raw fish and seaweed. Wasabi peas are dried peas with a range of different spices that when you suck feel so, so hot! Dried cuttlefish is just cuttlefish, but dried up. When you eat it it feels all twiggy, as if you’re eating bones, or sticks.Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-82383880041306951132010-03-21T22:31:00.015+00:002010-03-24T20:14:48.553+00:00Technology<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xcaballe/13403082/" target="_blank"><img alt="Robot ASIMO d’Honda by xcaballe, on Flickr" border="0" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/11/13403082_d1be11a196.jpg" title="Robot ASIMO d’Honda by xcaballe, on Flickr" /></a><br />
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</div>Japan is famous for the technology it has and all of its famous companies, like Honda, Yamaha, Nintendo, Sony etc. etc.! <br />
Honda has invented a robot called ASIMO that is made in the form of a human, to help around the factory! ASIMO is a white, with black joints, robot that can run up to 6km per hr and can even ride a bike and dance. WOW! Yamaha is an all around company and it makes a wide range of things from triangles and pianos to motorbikes and trucks! Nintendo, on the other hand, is a game company; it makes consoles and console games. Sony make CD players, cameras, video games, computer monitors, TV monitors, PCs, laptops and more!<br />
A Japanese professor called Professor Arai Kohei, has recently invented a computer system controlled by the users eyes!!! So over all Japanese technology is absolutely amazing!Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-19604332619425531582010-03-21T22:19:00.002+00:002010-03-24T20:19:24.817+00:00Calligraphy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvKiadfq_L7uth0dAnefXHsxgU3Pc2h-OdqbQnAeutUV8Zp2AlysgtD23CevXV03TofZJmNR6y6WoFsNYNSHPR751Qgwt4fvTabdYW8B0W522x05gqC7O2Tg5-y5DRHRTojNrgguGOwk/s1600-h/IMG_0310.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivvKiadfq_L7uth0dAnefXHsxgU3Pc2h-OdqbQnAeutUV8Zp2AlysgtD23CevXV03TofZJmNR6y6WoFsNYNSHPR751Qgwt4fvTabdYW8B0W522x05gqC7O2Tg5-y5DRHRTojNrgguGOwk/s400/IMG_0310.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>We tried <a href="http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/language/quickkanji/index.html">Japanese calligraphy.</a> It was great fun. Someone in our class, who is Chinese, taught us how to do it. <br />
We had to hold the brush in a very strange way, but all the same we were thoroughly enjoying it. Fai, who is Chinese, taught us how to hold the brush, and use it. He was also showing us some of the writing he knew (a lot!) We tried doing calligraphy in a group at a time and I loved it (so did everyone else, of course.) Most of us were writing our names in Japanese, which we translated on the internet, and Japan in Japanese. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHdbI9DryOTX_nKh4tW7GHf9JNE8I9F8-Ja0hBJgM78lfTeAatvJvkfwbvUAQj0xMQFbPoQxCVxZaOZyEUXKoehDD5GE2VH5EykPt-ZEOqQghlU97bn8rjTWpZAUeJOBoUCwAgTK4odfo/s1600-h/IMG_0309.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHdbI9DryOTX_nKh4tW7GHf9JNE8I9F8-Ja0hBJgM78lfTeAatvJvkfwbvUAQj0xMQFbPoQxCVxZaOZyEUXKoehDD5GE2VH5EykPt-ZEOqQghlU97bn8rjTWpZAUeJOBoUCwAgTK4odfo/s320/IMG_0309.JPG" /></a></div>Calligraphy brushes have nice thick bristles, which come to a thin point at the end. You hold it with your thumb on one side, your middle three fingers on the other side (in level with below your thumb) and then your pinkie on the same side as your thumb (in level with below your middle three fingers. The class really enjoyed it!!!Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-57438198333043649772010-03-21T22:15:00.006+00:002010-03-24T20:21:42.074+00:00Religion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eprater/3845322081/" target="_blank"><img alt="The Buddha in Japan by Ethan Prater, on Flickr" border="0" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/3845322081_6866c4b32d.jpg" title="The Buddha in Japan by Ethan Prater, on Flickr" /></a><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Buddhism</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jatakkatha.com/">Buddhism</a> is a religion that is strongly followed in Japan, as well as Shintoism. The name “Buddha” means “the enlightened one.” Buddhists follow the teachings of the Buddha, but to not believe him to be one of the gods. The Buddha was born named Siddhatta Gotama in around 580BC in the village of Lumbini in Nepal. He was born a prince, in a rich family. When he was young he had it very easy and he was protected from the harsh realities of sickness, suffering and death </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: 0.5cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The years went by and Siddhatta married and had a child but was worried about many things. He went outside the royal enclosure where he lived and went to many poor areas. For the first time he saw old age, sickness and death. He also saw a holy man. He made the decision to leave his wife, his baby son and his privileged life and began to search the world to try to find a higher truth or Nirvana, being free from sickness and death. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: 0.5cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Siddhatta searched for a truth which would release him from the cycle of dying and rebirth after death. He studied with wise teachers, practiced meditation and lived a life of extreme self-denial and discipline, but still he did not find the answers he needed. The search took Siddhatta six years, but Siddhatta found enlightenment whilst sitting under a bodhi tree. Following this he became known as the Buddha and dedicated his life to spreading his message. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: 0.5cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Buddha came to understand that the answers live in the “Middle Way” living a life which is not luxurious or deprived. Buddhists believe that they can escape the cycle of life and death and reach Nirvana by following the Middle Way through the four Noble Truths of the Eightfold Path. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: 0.5cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Eightfold path is how Buddhists believe people should act, here are some examples. They should have the right understanding (seeing things as they really are not as you think they are,) right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration and focus. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: 0.5cm; text-indent: 0.5cm;"><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/francescog/323403227/" target="_blank"><img alt="Miyajima by Francesco_G, on Flickr" border="0" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/323403227_df38df44a5.jpg" title="Miyajima by Francesco_G, on Flickr" /></a><br />
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Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-18453103310282711262010-03-19T12:57:00.002+00:002010-03-24T20:23:49.861+00:00Sadako Sasaki and the 1000 paper cranes.<div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanorwood/932416427/" target="_blank"><img alt="A zillion origami cranes for peace by Lisa Norwood, on Flickr" border="0" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1089/932416427_ff269280a5.jpg" title="A zillion origami cranes for peace by Lisa Norwood, on Flickr" /></a><br />
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Once there was a girl called <a href="http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/frame/kids_e/sadako_e/index.html">Sadako</a>. She was born to be a runner and an athlete. She had won every single medal execpt the 600 metres. Her friend Chizuko became her coach to train for the 600 metres. But every time she runs a 600 metres she always runs out of breath. One day, during a 600 metres run she suddenly fainted and was rushed to hostpital. Her carrot loving mum came to see her and brought some carrots and carrot juice. She didn't like kids who don't eat carrots, so she makes Sadako eat carrots daily, to help her get better. Then her friend Chizuko showed up. She rembered that the cleaner of the hostpital had said that if you make one thousand paper cranes you could make one wish, so she kept making them, and making them so she could hopefully gain Sadako back. Eventually everyone in the town helped her make her one thousand paper cranes!! But this also made Sadako very tired when she needed to rest. Sadako's mother kicked Chizuko out of the hostpital and told her not to come back. One night Chizuko sneaked back in to the hostpital to see Sadako. Sadako was in her bed crying because her mother had kicked Chizuko out. Chizuko spoke to Sadako, then Sadako looked up to see Chizuko. They played a little game. Next morning Chizuko came back to find Sadako dead. They had managed to reach a total of 644 paper cranes. <br />
Sadako died of a type of cancer called lukemia that she developed because of the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima during WWII. Today, people from all over the world send 1000 paper cranes to Hiroshima to remember the sad story of Sadako and as symbol of peace for the future.Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-61398493938349827492010-03-17T23:09:00.002+00:002010-03-24T23:20:32.673+00:00Drama Workshop - 1000 Paper Cranes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiShS3UgtZO1LcM6F77VaMG49pU57an2bXmJtNvp70Dfw6zjVLertgi3ypX_ifte7IIMcgzfwF1h_AzzZiDG3Juj8S8j-5iW5BZALxL0Yj7lqlU31GPY-8kdVuNtWQplLlqkg_hZGwLgE/s1600-h/IMG_0221.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiShS3UgtZO1LcM6F77VaMG49pU57an2bXmJtNvp70Dfw6zjVLertgi3ypX_ifte7IIMcgzfwF1h_AzzZiDG3Juj8S8j-5iW5BZALxL0Yj7lqlU31GPY-8kdVuNtWQplLlqkg_hZGwLgE/s400/IMG_0221.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>After our visit to the theatre we got a special visit from two people that asked us about how much we enjoyed the sneak peek. We also explored the characters' personalities, for example Sadako's mum loved carrots and had carrot juice in her purse. They told us to write a short paragraph in memory of Sadako's death. At the end we made a paper crane and we gave them to the people that led the drama. We really enjoyed the drama workshop!<br />
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The first known <a href="http://www.tangrams.ca/index.htm">tangram</a> was invented in 1813 in China. At the time it was considered a game for woman and children. No one actually knows what the word tangram means. A likely story involves the Tanka people. Tanka people are Chinese river men who were great traders. They sailed all round the world and played with tangrams with when returning to their Tanka girlfriends! It first appeared in a book published in Japan in 1742. Another story is that a man was carrying a square tile and he fell and the tile smashed into seven pieces and created the first tangram!<br />
A tangram always has seven peices. There is a special tangram called "Sei Shonagon" which also has seven pieces but is much more complex.<br />
We watched an animation called "<a href="http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_3962.html">Laughing Moon</a>". It was created by a Japanese animator called Kiyoshi Nishimoto. Kiyoshi Nishimoto was born in Shimonoseki City. He had graduated from the the Commercial Design Department in the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. Laughing Moon is simple, clever and very funny. It inspired us to make our own tangram animations.<br />
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We made our own tangrams out of gummy paper and cut out different shapes including, five triangles, one square and a parallelogram. We then planned and filmed in groups of threes and fours a minute long tangram animation.Then we added them all together to make one long film. Lastly, we added our sound effects and some music to help make the tangram shapes come alive!!<br />
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The oldest origami book in the world was published in 1797 and is called Hiden Senbazuru Orikata (How To Fold 1000 Paper Cranes.)<br />
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We tested out different designs of origami and together, with the other P6. class, we tried to make 1000 paper cranes... AND WE SUCCEEDED!!! Here are some examples of what we also<br />
made: paper pagodas, paper frogs, star boxes and paper cranes.<br />
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ENTERPRISE <br />
We made different types of Origami for the school winter fair. To help sell the products we dressed up in Kimonos and Happy jackets which we got from the <a href="http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/embassy/artefacts.html">Japanese Embassy in London</a>. In the<br />
star boxes we put chewy santa sweets. We also sold Hokusai block<br />
prints of the Great Wave and fans that we decorated with ink. The things that<br />
we put on the fans were all associated with Japan like Mount Fuji and<br />
cherry blossom. The money that we raised is helping to build a new playground for the school.Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-18382106129769466082010-03-17T22:20:00.003+00:002010-03-24T20:28:54.289+00:00Japanese Fans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTia03D6K5td1hDoHFNkkLS0T7sAGQcyNjOV1LKtfuZ6eCTRuVoxAYniURLQAHBrV4bhQ3CFFjZtKwo2BVpqt14DhnmN-KPUSc-D1CdiL-2DAzEIi4xq_2m0o7SzAJgYKL4_t0AwRY5s/s1600-h/IMG_1118.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTia03D6K5td1hDoHFNkkLS0T7sAGQcyNjOV1LKtfuZ6eCTRuVoxAYniURLQAHBrV4bhQ3CFFjZtKwo2BVpqt14DhnmN-KPUSc-D1CdiL-2DAzEIi4xq_2m0o7SzAJgYKL4_t0AwRY5s/s400/IMG_1118.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
Fans!!<br />
There are 2 main kinds of fans in Japan. There are the flat fan (uchiwa) and the folding fan (sensu or ogi.) The flat fan is thought to come from Korea. This fan is usually carried in festivals. They are also given as an advertising gift from companies for the hot Japan weather. This fan is also used for the general to indicate to his armies his commands. In wars you can use it as a weapon as well!<br />
The folding fan is an invention of the Japanese people. It originated in Kyoto in about 670 AD. It is made out of bamboo and paper. All the ones that were made with white paper would have love<br />
poetry written on them and then they were presented to a loved one.<br />
Buddhists use the same fans. At a ceremony no one would be perfectly dressed unless they carried a<br />
sensu. It is carried by singers of classical Japanese songs such as Rakugo.<br />
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Last term our class made our own Japanese fans. To start with we got one plain paper folding fan and some Japanese brushes and ink. First of all we planned it on a piece of paper. We had to have at least one piece of Japanese writing on it. Next we lightly sketched our plan on to the actual fan. Then, carefully, we painted our designs on the fans with the ink. After they had dried, we outlined them in a black fine liner and got to take them home!<br />
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<div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We looked at Japanese games as well and we tried making our own <a href="http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual/fukuwarai/index.html">fuku warai games</a>. Fuku warai is a game where there is a face of a person but it doesn’t have any eyes, nose or mouth they are all on different peaces of cut out squares. Then someone is blindfolded and they have to try and put the pieces of paper in the right place on the face but you might end up looking at something with an eye where a nose should be or a mouth where a eye should be! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We also had to make up our own monsters and write a short story about how they became monsters. Some people's monsters were evil and some were good, some were ugly some were pretty. Some of the stories where about animals that had evolved into something else and some were about robots being built. </div><br />
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</div><a href="http://www.onlineghibli.com/films.php">Studio Ghibli</a> is one of the most popular Studios in Japan, and they have made some of the best Japanese anime films in history.<br />
If you like dramatic, funny fantasy movies then watch Howl's Moving Castle. It is about a girl called Sophie who meets a mysterious wizard called Howl but the wicked Witch of the Waste turns her into an old lady. She goes into the waste to try and find the wicked Witch of the Waste but she finds a magic living scarecrow called Turnip Head who leads her into Howl's moving castle. When she finds her way in she meets a little boy called Marco and he introduces Sophie to Howl. She becomes Howl's house maid and also in a way she becomes family. Howl has a friend called Calcifer and he is a fire demon. He is the heart of the castle and protects Sophie and Marco. Howl is in a war and can no longer protect Sophie…<br />
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artist called <a href="http://tezukaosamu.net/en/about/index.html">Osamu Tezuka</a>. It is about a boy called Kenichi. Kenichi and his uncle travel to Metropolis to arrest a mad scientist called Dr. Laughton . Kenichi meets a girl called Tima, and does not want Tima to be used for evil, so he tries to save her… this is a movie for people<br />
who like action, dramatic and funny movies.<br />
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<embed flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FBearsden.Primary%2Falbumid%2F5449368221995200609%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCPf1w_Wr1J6iaA%26hl%3Den_US" height="400" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600"></embed>Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-85755283868566357642010-03-16T23:07:00.004+00:002010-03-25T22:48:44.720+00:00Japanese Names<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxuDE1k5XphvNelPoX2JwRwbnchaeHaRe5cwaLU79C2ya08SlCJFO-CZZMw27JUgTDTqiwzU-REJO2GWfQnedzsMzA-RWw543orLTcPQS4g8dA8Y7YDeLl3tjYzU3z5m8fHRylzYuIuE/s1600-h/lucy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCxuDE1k5XphvNelPoX2JwRwbnchaeHaRe5cwaLU79C2ya08SlCJFO-CZZMw27JUgTDTqiwzU-REJO2GWfQnedzsMzA-RWw543orLTcPQS4g8dA8Y7YDeLl3tjYzU3z5m8fHRylzYuIuE/s400/lucy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>We chose Japanese <a href="http://www.20000-names.com/male_japanese_names.htm">boys</a> and <a href="http://www.20000-names.com/female_japanese_names.htm">girls</a> names for ourselves based on their meaning. Next we searched for images that represented the seasons in Japan. We created posters using Powerpoint and displayed the name labels on our desks. We have made Japanese name tags. We used Powerpoint to add images of Japan and the seasons. We also put our own name in a <a href="http://www.keiichianimeforever.com/culture/japanese/nametranslator.html">webpage</a> and it then came up with our names in Japanese calligraphy. We then copied them to our Powerpoint slides and printed them off. We then laminated them and used them as name tags at our desks! <br />
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Block prints are a quicker, easier and cheaper way of making art, so that more families can afford paintings for their houses. The famous Japanese artist <a href="http://www.katsushikahokusai.org/">Hokusai</a> helped make these prints famous worldwide and this is how they are made...<br />
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Next we coloured in the top half (the sky) yellow, and the bottom (the sea) in light blue. Then we firmly pressed them both onto a piece of paper and held them for a bit, and took them off. After we had taken them off we saw the printed colours of the first layer of the sky, and the first colour of the sea. We then cut out the froth of the waves and whatever we wanted to stay light blue and the clouds and whatever we wanted to stay yellow. Next we, with paint rollers, painted the top part of the polystyrene over with red and the bottom over with the colour dark blue. Once again we pressed the two parts of polystyrene firmly over the paper again and after a bit, when we took the polystyrene off, we then found our almost finished picture.<br />
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and her best friend Chizuko.<br />
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Sadako is a keen athlete and is able to do every single race except for the 600 meters. So her best friend Chizuko decides to help train for the 600 meters but as Sadako is running in the race she<br />
becomes very ill and goes in to hospital. In hospital she discovers she has leukemia, a cancer caused by the nuclear bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Someone tells her that if you make a thousand paper cranes you could have any wish you ever wanted.<br />
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We all really enjoyed the visit to the theatre. At the end we were shown how to make a flappy crane out of origami.<br />
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Can't watch this? Then, see it <a href="http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=166385&title=Takamagahara&ref=bearsden">here</a> instead.Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-15910147439755362882010-03-16T00:47:00.002+00:002010-03-24T21:41:43.152+00:00Scares A Lot Academy, by Max <i>A tale written at Halloween and inspired by reading about the <a href="http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/folk/index.html">folk legends</a> of spooky Japan!</i><br />
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Decades ago when ghosts and ghouls still existed there was a school where all immortals came to learn about wizardry and witch craft and how to scare mortals and this school is hidden in an abandoned house! The house is smothered in cobwebs and most of its windows are cracked. In this very house there is a portal leading to an underground school of vampires, wizards and witches and rarely the odd kappa or oni. This story is about two friends who fallout and become friends again.<br />
One day a vampire named Darren and a kappa named Jack were in wizardry class. It was 2pm and Mr Spooks gave everyone a new spell to learn as usual. Darren and jack thought that they would be better at the spell than anyone else .It was 3pm the end of school “finally” said Jack. “I thought that lesson was going to last forever,” sighed Darren.” I think I will be the best at the assignment, “boasted Jack. “No I will!” shouted Darren. “Yeah right you’re as dumb as a donut,” said Jack. “If you’re so good at magic why don’t we battle in the gym tomorrow at 10am “. You are on ,“ shouted Jack! As Jack and Darren walked home they were muttering to themselves, “how am I going to beat him in a battle only using spells!” Oh well a good nights sleep will help.<br />
It was Friday morning 9:45, only 15 minutes till the fight.” Bring “that’s the bell .Everyone was in the gym. Darren and Jack were face to face .Ready go! Suddenly Jack paused and said, “what were we fighting about in the first place?” “To be honest I don’t know,” said Darren. “Want to be friends again?” said Jack “yeah! “said Darren. Darren and Jack shook hands and that was how they became best friends.Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-62866752702220877932010-03-16T00:43:00.003+00:002010-03-24T21:42:44.503+00:00Spooky School, by Abigail <i>A tale written at Halloween and inspired by reading about the <a href="http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/folk/index.html">folk legends</a> of spooky Japan!</i><br />
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Many decades ago when witches, vampires, goblins and ghouls existed but there was very special vampire he was called count Dracula. He had spiky jet black hair, he wore a white shirt, a black bow tie and a long black cape with the collar stood up around his neck. It was the 31st October and for Vampires and witches that was a new term. Dracula picked up his spider schoolbag and started to walk to this old creepy, abandoned house that had broken squeaky gates overgrown gardens. He started to walk up the stone cobbled path towards the house; it had no door only planks of wood across the door. Dracula climbed through the door and all of a sudden it turned pitch black. He walks two steps down the corridor and it lit up like the stars in the night sky. As he walked down the corridor he saw portraits of families but he didn’t stop to look at the pictures. Dracula got to the end of the corridor and saw a door so he walked through it and there he was standing in the middle of a cobbled stone courtyard.<br />
He saw Vampires running in at super sonic speed, witches flying in over head, Ghosts walking through walls and kappas swiftly walking in chomping on a stick of cucumber. The last Kappa to come in was his best friend Kappa (His mum went for a more original name) then suddenly the first bell went but it sounded more like a SCREAM.Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171384094800807155.post-80106984927001017512010-03-16T00:40:00.002+00:002010-03-24T21:45:07.254+00:00A Spooked School, by Hiba <i>A tale written at Halloween and inspired by reading about the <a href="http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/folk/index.html">folk legends</a> of spooky Japan!</i><br />
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There was once a school called Giant Spooked School. The school was called that because it wasn’t children who went, NO WAY! Only witches and wizards, Oni’s and Ghosts went there. The Witches were mean and cruel with old crooked broomsticks and warty green skin. Wizards however were clever and wise with a pointed hat, so pointy it must have been sharpened. Onis are mean but have a soft side with horns of an Ox and clothes from a tiger. Last but not least Ghosts, who are sly and mischievous with a horrifying haunted song. The school lies in an abandoned field with Ivy crawling on the walls. In the classroom there are hanging broomsticks and carved pumpkins and potions as smelly as a turnip on the old dusty shelves covered in grey cobwebs.<br />
There were once two good friends, if you saw them your heart would freeze, because these two were an Oni (A red skinned creature with horns of an Ox and clothes from a tiger.) and a Ghost (A foggy looking person that can float.) They were finishing off their work, which was for Oni carving pumpkins and for the Ghost whose name is Capper was learning a new haunted song. So since they finished their spooky work. (This for them is really hard.)<br />
Capper, who is really mischievous turns invisible, levitates Oni's ink feather (which is a pencil) and drops Oni’s books on the ground. All of a sudden a Ghost is learning a haunted song which makes Capper jump and scratches Oni’s horn with an ink feather. “Oh no!” shouts Capper.....Mr Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17776231778053948670noreply@blogger.com2