Career Day!

Happy Tuesday! We welcomed E’s parents, M and Ri to Flowers to our Career Day and had a wonderful time learning about their jobs, lawyer, and accountant. Thank you so much for taking time to talk about what you do and answering all our questions! We learned a lot of interesting things about lawyers and accountants.

M showed us pictures of a court in Japan, France, and Singapore. We were quite surprised to hear a place called “court”. Re asked, “Is it like a coat?”. M said that a court is a place where people who could not agree on something meet with their lawyers. We learned about the judges and court clerks who take an active role in the court as well. As the presentation went on, we found the job of a lawyer interesting. Here are the questions we asked:

          Mo: When someone fights with you, what do you do?

          Hi: Say sorry.

          T: You have to call a lawyer.

          M: When there is no solution, we seek a lawyer to help out.

          T: Daddy told me if you steal money, you need to call the police.

          Sh: Is lawyer like a police?

          Re: What do you need to work as a lawyer?

          Cl: Law school?

          Re: How long to study?

          M: 6 years.

          Cl: Oh! (put his hand over his head!)

          Hi: Why did you want to be a lawyer?

          Ta: What time do you go work and come back?

          Everyone: What is client?

          R: What is defend?

          Hi: Why do you need to fight in court? Sharing is caring though!

          Hi: Who is the boss? Who makes the decision (in court)?

          Mi: Does the boss know a lot of stuffs?

          Hi: Do you know how to speak French?

          E: How much candles are there?

          Ke: Do you want to be a lawyer, but you do not want to go to law school. What do you do?

          Re: What if you don’t want to go to the university?

          Ta: No, I don’t want to be a lawyer.

          O: I’ve been to Singapore before. It’s very good.

          Re: Why do you need to go to different countries?

          Th: The dollar is stronger though.

The job of a lawyer seemed to be quite a challenging one. Mo presented a short role play to explain how a situation can end up in the court. For example, a customer paid for a toy car and was promised by the seller that the purchase would be delivered to his house. Unfortunately, weeks after and it was still not yet delivered.

          Mo: What will you do?

          Hi: Sometimes people forget.

          Re: You can wait until Christmas.

          Cl: You can call and say help please and go to the police.

M shared that if the seller returns the money, or sends the car, then there will be no problem. If not, the customer may contact a lawyer to help him find ways to receive his car, or to refund his money. At the end of the presentation, we asked how we find a lawyer. He replied, “In Japan, there are around 50, 000 lawyers”. Wow, that’s a lot of lawyers!

Ri called some Flowers friends who played the customer, sellers, and tax office people. We learned that in Japan, we pay 10 percent (consumer) tax when we buy something. The amount of the item stays with the sellers, while the tax goes to the tax office people. As H put it, “it’s like the tax is going in a circle”. Ri, who works as an accountant told us that the tax does move like in a circle. The shoppers pay the tax to the government through the tax office people that’s why it is called an indirect tax. M added that the taxes are paid to the government, and are not kept by the tax office people, so we can have clean roads and other things.

CIRCLE TIME

After our shared reading activity (Pete the Cat I like My White Shoes), we had a number activity where we arranged the numbers 1 to 30. Some of our friends had a turn to arrange them while the rest of the class sang Count to 100 song. Then, we read an interesting fact about bugs that are considered noisemakers! We tried to guess which bug would make the sound that we heard. We were surprised to hear the sound that a cockroach makes! We thought it was a beetle! We got very excited to share our stories about bugs.

          Th At my home, we had to set up traps for the cockroach.

          Sh: I saw a Jewish video in the farm. The person in charge of it tried to catch it a he started making sounds.

          O: Semi wa chiisai kedo tsuyoi yo!(The cicada is small but it is a strong bug.)

          Ke: One time, I saw a cicada play a drum.

          M: I saw a cicada and we were scared. So my dad came to get it out. I think a cicada is cute. My mom is scared but my dad helps take it out.

          Hi: Even now, my house has spiders.

We learned an interesting fact about cicadas in a country called Madagascar. Our bug book says that these cicadas have drums on their bodies called tymbals, which they play when they feel threatened. We laughed thinking that they could be our clean up leaders and won’t need to use our drums!

We were supposed to have our Question of the Day, but we just love dancing and singing for our Rainbow Fish musical. We asked our teachers if we could skip it and instead do our musical, and they said yes! Yay! We’re looking forward to discussing our Question of the Day tomorrow.

Love,

Flowers