Opening Ceremonies

The OCG school year begins in early August.  Every year our teachers  choose a cultural theme for the summer curriculum, which then becomes  the basis for our “Summer Festival” at the end of August.  One year the  theme was how different regions in Japan celebrate the Tanabata (“Star”) festival, and another year we compared school life in Japanese and  American schools. Teachers use the study of these topics to teach vocabulary, kanji, and sentence patterns.