What a brilliant experience! Class 1 were incredibly lucky to welcome Juri, Hana’s mum into our class on Friday, 4th March 2022. Juri explained what the special holiday of Hinamatsuri - Japanese Girls’ Day means to her family. Girls’ Day is held annually each year to celebrate the health and happiness of female children. Hana wowed us all in her traditional dress of a kimono. Juri explained that traditionally dolls are given to new-born babies that are handed down from generation to generation and these are displayed over the holiday. The children were able to take part to make origami craft and fold either an emperor or empress doll, which the children did brilliantly even with little fingers! As with almost most holidays, food and drink play a huge role and Juri explained (whilst showing us pictures) of what types of food Hana would be eating later in the day. The children were certainly interested in hearing all about sushi. Finally, the children were able to try a sweet treat that was divided into three different colours, pink representing flowers, white representing snow and green representing new growth. The children absolutely loved hearing how Hana celebrates her Japanese culture and we would like to say a huge ‘thank you’ again to Juri for her visit.
