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Japanese kindergarten

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Most of 3-5-year-old kids go to kindergarten. At 8:30, they gather at meeting points. About 10 kids are in one group and two or three mother or father of them take them to a kindergarten in turn. Reaching it, nursery school teachers take care of them.
At 9:00, each kid go to their own classroom. Most class are called simple Japanese plants and numbers like Sakura 7 (cherryblossoms), take2(bamboo) and matsu4(pine tree).Putting their bags into their locker,they play freely anywhere they like to play.
Around 10:00, they go back to their classroom and Teachers play the organ and kids make their small organaized group, sit in the straight line on the floor and wait for the next instruction from teachers. Teachers tell kids to sing together,play a simple hand-gesutre-game.
After playing in a classroom, they move to a gym or playground. They play tag, ropes,ball-game or bar.
Teachers play together and help kids who are poor at playing or equipments and so on.
Around 11:00, parents come to kindergarten and take their kids of their group to their home.
That's a daily life of Japanese kindergarten kids.
Some kindegarten has a school bus. Some give kids school lunch and take care until 2 o'clock. In such long-care-time schoool, kids take a nap before going home.