Japanese Culture

This week we are reading a story called How My Parents Learned to Eat. This story is all about an American sailor who married a young Japanese girl. Now here are a few things we have noticed:

1. They seem to always sit on the floor.
2. They sleep on the floor.
3. They eat with chopsticks all the time!
4. They also eat sukiyaki and tofu.
5. They drink their soup instead of eating it.
6. They wear kimonos.

Now these are a few things we just discovered through our reading and the pictures. Here is our question for you.....WHY? Why do they always sit on the floor? Why do they sleep on the floor? Why do they drink their soup instead of eating it? We are just very curious as to WHY!!!!??? We hope that you have some cool culture facts to share with us all about the Japanese culture!

 

Sukiyaki

Tofu

California Drought

We have recently discovered that California is in some big trouble! They are currently experiencing one of the worse droughts they have seen in over a hundred years. Lakes, reservoirs, and rivers are all dried up! Farmers are suffering from lack of water, produce, and income! So here are some of our discoveries...

Problems:
*crops die
* fewer vegetables and fruits
* higher prices
* little to NO water
* long time without water
* wildfires
* Seems to look a lot like the desert

Ideas to help: *Take vacations to California and carry water along for others!
* Run a pipe to transport water
*store water in containers and bottles for transportation
* Use airplanes to drop water
* plant large gardens here in Arkansas to donate vegetables
* Transport water to the lakes
* Use freezer trucks to transport excess snow and ice to California