Classroom

Time Frame

• Photographs, Japanese art visuals and Japanese Pokemon cards will be displayed on hall walls during November and December.
• Japanese based art lessons and construction of the "sembazuru" will being in November and continue throughout the school year.
• Celebrate the year 2000, the year of the Dragon, in January along with a presentation about Japanese arts and culture to all grades in the library.
• Celebrate Girl's Day with origami doll making on March 3, 2000.
• Celebrate Boy's Day with kite making and flying on May 5, 2000.
• Send the "sembazuru" to Hiroshima in May.

School

Time Frame

• The Graham School PTA grant request will be written and submitted to the PTA President mid-December. I will also request to speak at the January PTA meeting about my trip to Japan, my Japanese ARTS and Culture Program at Graham School this year, and I will request PTA volunteers to help with the food preparation and serving at the Japanese food sampling event.
• In December, Mrs. Davis and/or Mrs. Berk, student parents, will be asked to assist with the wall mural painting. In January, we will begin painting a reproduction of Hokusai’s "Great Wave" on the school wall.
• The Pokemon mobile will be completed and displayed in the library in January.
• The Haiku and Tanka Poetry workshop will be schedueled for February along with the ikebana and bonsai floral arranging demonstrations and the Japanese food sampling.

School District/Community

Time Frame

• The Graham School Japanese Arts and Culture Festival will be scheduled for early April of 2000. Crone Middle SChool and Nequa Valley High School will have to be contacted about contacted about hosting the Graham School Japanese Arts and Culture Festival in April. Stage space and building custodians will need to be arranged. This contact will be made in December 1999 or January 2000.
• A sabbatical leave request will be submitted to my school district's Professional Growth Committee in January of 2000. If the sabbatical leave is granted in March, my art education reference and resource book should be written by August of 2001. If my sabbatical leave is not granted, my book will probably not be completed until August of 2002.
• I will offer Japanese arts education and grant writing staff development classes to district employees in late April of 2000.

Personal

Time Frame

• I plan to invite Lilian Degand (Chicago, IL), and Aurora Chase, (St. Charles, IL), who are both FMFers from the October 1999 group, to my home to discuss our follow-on plans, look at photos, and reminisce.