Oh yes, I am so behind in postings, that I am still in summer! A large part of our summer went to Suzume no Gakko! Cody, or Koji, as he was called in Japanese school, said he loved it because it was short! (As in, they got out at 12:00, instead of 2:40 like his regular school!). Geez!
Here he is with his teacher, Yang Sensei.
Morning Taiso exercises! I LOVED watching this! I have been trying to download the video of this, but it doesn't work. Every morning before class started, the entire school would go out and do taiso exercises! They are looking up at the instructors who are demonstrating each exercise to the most charming Japanese songs ever!
His "Me Doll" project. Cody called it his Build a Bear project.
Here are some of the other class projects. Those are rice plants in the 2 liter bottles! The theme for his grade was rice. They learned about how it grows, what products are made out of it, and they even cooked different dishes with it! They did a lot of other fun activities like watching a karate demo, the Taiko drummers, visiting different places in Japantown, as well as learning some Japanese words & songs!
At Open House, each grade had a performance. Cody's class sang a song about a horse. He was one of the lucky ones that got to be a horse (running back and forth with a horse head stick.)! 
Standing at his seat in his classroom. Behind him is the "rice board" that has items the students brought in that were made from rice. The scroll hanging above is a tree picture made from colored rice. All the kids' projects were so cute!!!
Flipped over the pancake to find a smiling face, complete with banana eyes, heart shaped nose and big smile! Do you see it?
