Travel to Japan in your imagination. Write haiku, speak Japanese, compose pentatonic music and make a den-den daiko (). We promise you'll be home by supper.
Suggested for Grade 2 or 3.

Materials needed per student:

• 2 small plastic plates (Hefty)
• 2 plastic beads with large eyes
• 2 seven inch pieces of dental floss
• 1 optional 10 inch wooden dowel or paint stirrer (If dowel or stirrer is used, we will need 2 more pieces of dental floss.)

• colored permanent marker

• Day 1 Make hand drums.
  Write group haiku.
  Learn three Japanese words.
  Assign individual haiku.
• Day 2 Learn pentatonic scale.
  Set haiku to music.
• Day 3 Perform.