Ms. Tam made sushi, a traditional Japanese food. We also had crackers that were in weird shapes, rice and sea weed. We enjoyed slurping green tea and struggling with chop sticks which took a while to learn to use.

The hardest part of our tea ceremony was that everyone had to eat without talking. When the tea is served the server bows to his guests and pours them a cup of tea. We enjoyed making loud slurping noises to indicate the tea was good. We ended our meal eating a candy stick, a straight pretzel with strawberry or a chocolate coating. As many students said, "It was a really fun time!"
Written by: Colin Jones and Ben Ferguson
 

Kelsi Jones is setting the Japanese table that has no legs. She is putting the traditional paper cranes on the Japanese table. The Japanese like their tables to be fancy and delicate. The Japanese people use chop sticks instead of forks and knives. They eat different foods than Canadians and Americans, such as sushi and tofu with rice at almost every meal. They also drink lots of green tea.
Written by: Michelle Brice and Gradyn Childerhose
 

Ms. Tam came to show us how to make sushi. She showed us the food we would need to make it. We were lucky that it doesn't need raw fish
Written by: Josh Bueckert and Richard Ofstie
 

Ms. Tam came to are class to teach us how to make sushi. She put in rice, sea weed, carrots and celery. It takes concentration to make this special Japanese food!
Written by: Robyn Watt and Jill Rafoss
 

This is Ms. Tam showing us how to make Sushi. She is cutting up the sushi into slices for us to eat. We also ate shrimp crackers, seaweed, rice, green tea, and for dessert we had chocolate and strawberry sticks. They were delicious. The Japanese tea was awesome.
Written by: Katherine Pocha and Sammy Jo Riopka
 

Two volunteers (Jodi and Holly) went and made sushi at the front of the class. They made it with seaweed, rice, carrots, celery and crab. They rolled it up using a bamboo mat. After they were done rolling up the sushi they cut it up and ate it.
Written by: Jodi Ylioja and Scott Ylioja
 

We got to use chop sticks. It was hard to use them. You had to be able to move the top stick to pick up the food.
Written by: Taylor Sobkowicz and Courtney Morrison
 

This is Robyn Watt sitting on a tatami mat. A tatami mat is a woven mat that the Japanese people sat on in their houses. Our class made them out of construction paper that we learned how to weave..
Written by: Sarah Butler and Kelsi Jones
 

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 This is a picture of Sarah and Sammy Jo eating their rice with their chop sticks. They were quite good at it. The cranes you see were made by their group and they were quite good. They also ate sushi , shrimp crackers , rice crackers , seaweed and for desert they had chocolate and strawberry sticks. We had fun !
Written by: Jessica Nicklin and Maxine Butler
 

Here are tables that our classmates sat at during our Japanese Tea Party. The things that they sat on are called Tatami mats. Our classmates are sure enjoying the tea party. The decorations on the table are paper cranes that were made by our class. We all drank green tea from a tea pot and it was very , very hot. The chopsticks were very confusing to use. Everyone had a hard time. Ms.Tam was a great help to make sushi. The food tasted delicious.
Written by: Nicole Richards and Stephanie Murphy
 

This picture is about our Japanese tea party. We made Origami paper cranes to decorate the table because Japanese people always decorate their table. We sat on tatami mats. They are kind of like rugs which are used to sit on. The food was great! We had seaweed, rice, shrimp crackers, rice crackers and for dessert we had chocolate and strawberry sticks. We drank green tea. We ate with chop sticks. We had a real fun time.
Written by: Holly Simonson and Aaron Paul