December+13

=World Cultures Daily Round Up for 13 December 2006=

Scribed by: Kirste, Colter, tevin, Alyssa, Corey, Shay, Zach, Grady,Braden, Shea

Activities for today > Concepts covered in class with brief summary
 * Describe acitivies for class
 * We made an origami crane and we took notes, and we had a neat picture of the day which a space shuttle took off during the night.
 * how to make origami whales and samari hats.
 * we learned how to make a origami crane
 * We finished the lecture, it had some origami, calligraphy, Hauki, Ikebana, and Bonzai.
 * pictures of Japanese Zen Rock Garden and Japanese Sand Garden.We also saw
 * Describe assignments made in class today
 * we made origami cranes, whales, and smari hats
 * We made origami.
 * We attempted to do origami.
 * We took notes on japanese origami and types of spritural gardens.
 * Made origami wales and a bird.
 * We attempted making little star things for origami and than tried cranes.
 * we also learned many different styles of japanese art, such as bonzai trees, haiku, and flower arranging.
 * We learned that Shinto furniture is very plain.
 * we learned that the japanese culture is simple when it comes to interior decorating.
 * today we learned that the japanese people stick with simplicity, and that they're neat and clean when it comes to this.
 * we also learned that they created Haiku! kinda like Edgar Allen Poe....except less creepy!
 * near the end of class we learend how to create KINDER-CRAFT origami whales and cranes! heck yes!
 * We learned how to make oragami throwing stars.
 * We learned how to make kndergarden crafts and failed, embarresing I know.

Additional resources and interesting items related to class today Here is how to make a hungery bat. http://dev.origami.com/diagram.cfm [|www.eso-garden.com/.../zen_garden_kyoto.jpg]
 * Here is where you put facts, websites or other information that relates to concepts discussed in class
 * [[image:http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/origami-ios/peacock1.jpg]]Here's a peacock.[[image:http://files.myopera.com/SerbianFighter/albums/12747/origami_12.jpg width="426" height="568"]]An Angel yeah.
 * http://www.net4tv.com/voice/graphics/bat_origami.gif

here are pictures of origami: http://anools-origami.tripod.com/images/flowers11.jpg http://www.ipsd.org/Uploads/DEC1_6th%20grade%20-%20origami.jpg http://www.republika.pl/arinita/origami/or2.jpg

here are some instructions for making origami: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/9949/flowers/origami/MorningGlory1.gif http://www.sarahsorigami.com/diagrams/ribbon.jpg