This year our traditional multicultural day grew into a week long festival which provided students with a range of opportunities to investigate the way folk stories are used in different cultures to teach positive values.
On Thursday the 24th of March children attended a performance by Anne Norman of the traditional Japanese tale of “The Rolling Rice Ball”. Anne came to us very highly recommended and performed both an educational and entertaining show.
During the festival, the children also made a Japanese rice ball to bring the story to life.
The Rolling Rice Ball By Anna K
On the 24th of March, the students at Robbie Mac went to see a marvelous performance called “The rolling rice ball”. We all went to the hall at 9:30.
I could see already, that all the students were enjoying the show. An actress called Anne Norman performed the show. Just thinking about the name made me feel like this show was going to be great. Anne is a great performer, she really entertained the kids and made them laugh a lot.
The story was about an old man and an old woman. Each day the old woman would pack some rice balls for the man and he would eat them in his field.
One day when he was eating a rice ball, it rolled away into a mouse hole. The mice sang, made rice cakes and said that he could choose out of a small and large box to take home. The man took the small box and said thank you, and went home to tell his wife about the great adventure he had. They both opened the box and inside was lots of money and jewellery. Their greedy, prying neighbors next door heard all about the story. The greedy lady said to the greedy man to go find the mouse hole. So the lady packed some rice balls.
When then the greedy man found the hole he dropped one of his rice balls into it. The mice invited him in, sang and gave him rice cakes but he was rude and didn’t even say thankyou, he just asked for presents. They let him choose between the small and large box. He took both of them. The mice quickly scattered and all off the lights went out. The greedy man was stranded forever underground.
The moral of this story is nothing good comes out of greed.
The Performance by Maddie C, 56D
Anne Norman came to Roberts McCubbin Primary School. Who’s Anne might you ask? Well, Anne is famous for playing a traditional Japanese flute all over the world! That’s right all over the world, and she came to our school to perform. The performance was great, she got all the kids involved, and they all had a ball. There was a lot of humour going on in there!
Anne performing was part of Roberts McCubbin’s Culutral Diversity week. Anne performed a traditional story from Japan, called the Rolling Rice Ball. It was so much fun!
Kids were involved like this…
Some kids go up and made background noises, some danced and some just so involved with laughing!
So it all turns out that we all had a great time
By Maddie.C
