Why to hold events

Last week it was still snowing, but Easter is right there.  

As always it falls on a day during Japanese Spring vacation~the busiest time of year for everyone here, as a new school year begins, teachers are transferred and everything changes.

So, we hold our Easter lessons a bit early, in the last week of March.

Usually this event is a variety of quick communication games, where kids can score little eggs, or use eggs to play,   and a big crafting session.

The kids love it:  being creative, drawing on eggs, egg hunting.  It is so much fun.

We hold 4 events a year:  
Performance in Summer, Halloween, Christmas and Easter.  This is well balanced timing;  the kids are eager and motivated to learn in between and they always know:  a few weeks, months ahead they will have another fun event.

Of course for me as a teacher the goal is not to make it only fun, but to have them  learn about and experience a different culture.

And last, for the parents it is an occasion to watch their kid's improvement (of many different skills:  speaking, listening, social, musical, etc)

My mom's homework this week is to blow out eggs~and everyone is pretty excited about it.

Hope to put up some pictures next week.  

BTW, it would be great if we'd had some fotos of everyone's  easter eggs.
I bet the patterns and drawings are different from country to country?!