Lunar eclipse and our moon-viewing party
February 24th, 2008 at 11:15 pm (Outdoors, Playing, Nature, Learning)
On Wednesday night we ended up having a “o-tsukimi” party. At least I think that is what the Japanese would call it. Papa made his famous homemade pizza and then later we watched a beautiful lunar eclipse from our front yard in the frigid air, running outside to look at it and then back inside to enjoy the warmth of a fire in our fireplace.
That same night I also taught the children some basic kanji. The children had seen Sagwa, a PBS show about a Chinese cat, where people were practicing kanji and it showed people learning one of Celia’s best remembered Chinese characters, the kanji for rain. This was enough to inspire the kids to practice writing these beautiful Chinese characters.
We practiced again on Thursday and both Celia and William have really neat writings to prove it. I taught them the few that I know including moon, day, rain, river, mountain, book, eye, and rice paddy. Makes me glad that I studied kanji enough to share this with them. It is amazing how what I have learned is able to be passed on. Bit by bit. Makes me wish I would have studied harder! Well, I guess there is still time for that. Maybe HSing gives all of us that second chance.
