Common Japanese Spiders

One of the challenges of homeschooling overseas is trying to do nature study when you can't read any of the guidebooks.

Hooray for the internet. You can find a lot of information out there, just by searching something like "common spiders Japan" or "snakes of Japan." If you search through Google images, you can often figure out just what you're looking at.

If you're trying to identify just what spider has spun a web over the trampline or what the huge arachnid over the door of Chili's is, you might want to check out Common Spiders in Japan, which has photos of spiders grouped by season of the year.

Vivire a Pompeii

The art exhibit Vivire a Pompeii at the Yokohoma Museum of Art will close in a couple weeks (13 June). The exhibit is about life in Pompeii before its destruction by the volcanic explosion of Vesuvius in 49 AD.

The exhibit is in Japanese with little to no English explanations or audio guides. However educator resources and an audio guide to a similar exhibit, A Day in Pompeii are available at these links.

http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/pompeii/sites/wamuseum.com.pompeii/files/pompeii-junior-explorers-trail.pdf

http://www.smm.org/static/pompeii/teacherguide.pdf

http://www.sdnhm.org/pompeii/v_tour.php

Directions to the museum.

Train:
· Minatomirai station (Minatomirai Line) / From the "Museum" exit, 3 minutes walk on foot
· Sakuragicho station (JR, Yokohama subway) / 10 minutes walk using "moving walkway"

(Look for signs once you leave the station.)

Car:
· From Sakuragicho station, take the road leading towards the Nippon Maru, or turn right at the Sakuragicho station Momijizaka crossing, enter the MM21 area, and proceed towards the Museum.
· From Yokohama station, take the Takashimacho MM21 area entrance and proceed towards the Museum. Either takes approximately 3-5 minutes. (Use the Minatomirai ramp from the Expressway).

Welcome to Yokosuka Homeschooling

Yokosuka Homeschooling is a blog by, for and about homeschoolers in Kanto Plain Home Schoolers, CFAY families considering homeschooling and homeschoolers who may be taking orders to Yokosuka.

Blog posts will highlight the opportunities on base and in the community for fun and education. Hopefully it will make both homeschooling and Yokosuka feel a bit less daunting and more like our home.