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Dumpling!



After we learned about why Moon Viewing was an important tradition, we wanted to celebrate Moon Viewing this month by making yummy dumplings!
We started by adding flour in a bowl, and preparing the tables with plastic wrap.
After washing our hands, we were ready to begin!
皆でお月見のお話をした後、お団子作りスタートです！ワクワクしながら綺麗に手を洗って、ボウルに粉を入れ準備は万端！


We talked about mud this month, and how water needs to be added to dirt to make it sticky and slimy. So this was helpful to understand that we needed to now add water to the flour so that it begins dough.
少しずつ水を足しながら、粉がねちゃねちゃ粘土みたいに変わっていく様子を実際に手で触って体感しました。



Mush mush mush! We had fun mixing the dough together with our hands and getting it ready to make balls. We added more water to make it more doughy and we all took turns mixing it together!
混ぜてこねて・・・もうお団子は作れそうかな？もうちょっと水を入れた方がいいかな？
皆で確認しながら、お団子が作れる固さになるまで水を足していきました。



We started rolling the balls into medium sizes and discussing the texture and showing each other how to roll them nicely. We talked about what will happen to the dough balls once they are brought up to the kitchen, and how they are going to make the dumplings.
さぁ、お団子作りスタートです！どうすれば綺麗なお団子(丸)が作れるのか皆で話し合いながら、手の中でお団子をコロコロ。お手本のサイズに合わせるのが少し難しそうでしたが、自分で作ったお団子と見比べながら『too big.』『It's a little bit small.』と楽しそうにサイズを確認していました。


KA was so happy to see all the dough balls we rolled and piled up in the bin, ready to be taken up stairs and boiled for our lunch time dumplings!
Lunch time, we enjoyed many of them and we talked about how we will observe the moon and think about the farmers who, every year, give us all the food we eat.
Thanks farmers!
皆で協力して作ったので、沢山のお団子が出来上がりました。
待ちに待ったランチタイム!美味しいご飯を食べた後、自分達が作ったお団子をきなこと一緒に美味しく頂きました。
自分が作ったお団子は、また一段と美味しく感じるようで、子ども達は『It's so yummy!!』『I made this!』といいながら皆おかわりをしていました。

Brent and Yuka