Welcome to

and Abby Bear's Japanese Adventure

GREAT NEWS!!

We have been notified via email that Abby Bear reached her destination, Miyake Elementary School, on Monday, February 4, 2002! We have received these two pictures of Abby and students at Miyake via email. Click on over and take a peek!

To learn about Japan, follow some of these links:

Kid's Window to Japan

Japan for the Young at Heart

A teacher visits Japan

Another Japan site

Learn the Japanese language

A third grade web page from Japan

Japanese Holidays

History of rice in Japan

Japan Information

In preparation for Abby's trip, we wrote expository essays explaining about our school and our country.

You can read some of our essays online.

Allison	Alex
Staci	Sadie
Donnie	Zack

Read Haiku poems written by our students.

Find out more about Haiku

Bobby	Group Poem	Mike
Grant	Christelle	Ali

Look at our Origami dogs.

In reading class we have read Rent a Third Grader. The students have posted some of their art work illustrating the main ideas of the book. Click on the link above to see their work.

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Our postal package to Miyake Elementary is filled with goodies from us!

We hope the students of Miyake enjoy Rescue and Orion.

For the next few weeks we will be asking email questions of our new Japanese friends.

Read our email questions and answers HERE.

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Created January 2002 @ Custer Park Elementary School

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