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Year 9 Japanese - Kyra-Ben (Character Bento)
As an extended celebration of Languages Week, we were super excited to have a guest volunteer Mika Sensei to help us make ‘Kyra-ben’. Kyra-ben is two words combining ‘kyra’ for ‘character’ and ‘ben’ for ‘bento’. A Japanese packed lunch). Mothers in Japan often get up at 5am to make their obento for their children. ‘Kyra-ben’ uses rice, and inari (bean curd) pockets to make enticing faces to attract children to eat their vegetables. Therefore, you will see a variety of colours in the lunchboxes. The students studied about ‘kya-ben’ and prior to making them learned the words in Japanese for all of the ingredients. Students used carrot, ham, seaweed, rice, lettuce and cucumber. We made a white ‘rirakuma’ bear and a brown ‘rirakuma’ bear. This is very appropriate as move forward to studying housing and schooling in Japan, next term. Check out the very ‘kawaii’ (cute) creative characters the students made. Would you like to have a go at making one of these?
