Let's talking about the entrance preparation of the elementary school this time. A new school year starts in April in Japan.
My six-year-old daughter entered the elementary school in, and three-year-old son entered the kindergarten in April.
Especially, it was cost lot to to enter the elementary school, should get many many stuff for the school.
Those pictures are that some of the things need at the elementary school.
Gym wear, inside shoes, hat, crayon, clay, notes, bag, and pencils etc..
It costs about 30,000 yen(about $320.00) in these school supplies.
(These are not all)
We could buy them at the school when they had the meeting for parents who has child of new student.
However, we need buy other stuff by ourselves too.
what is particularly thing is own desk to studing for child which put in the child room.
like that↑↑↑ this is just image.
but recently, the child is often made to study at the table in kitchen and the living room while mother is preparing supper.
because parents can understand child's scholastic attainments if it does so、and children can ask questions easily when they don't understand their homework.
I will also do that, however we need space to put my daughter's school many stuff.
Therefore, we decided to set up the desk in the children room for her in this case.
However, it is handmade it!!!
My husband bought the boards from the dealer in lumber on the internet and made it.
and he made one more desk for son!!
I should also make various other stuff.
For instance, "shoes bag" for son who enters kindergarten. In addition, "a bag for gym wear" and "Lunch box bag", etc. are needed.
Of course, we can buy ready-made goods, however there is variously detailed rule for design and color etc by each kindergarten,so should make them by handmaid.
well, get back to talk about elemetary school,
When entering elementary school, a must is a satchel.↓↓↓(we call it ''Randoseru'' in Japanese)
The textbook and the note are put in this.
Isn't it a bag peculiar to Japan?
When I was child, only two colors for Randoseru, black is for boys and red is for girls but now it is various colors.
My daughter chose light blue.
Do you know how much it is?
It is about 30,000 yen. (about $320.00).
so grandparents buy it for grandchildren's present or give money and child chooses the favorite one.
These informations are case of enter the public school, so it might be different for a private elementary school.
I think that the child of 80% or more goes to a public elementary school maybe in Japan.
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It seems to me, that it is very expensive to get your child ready for school year :)
But in our country the situation is the same. We spend the same sum of money usually. Not on satchels, however. A satchel costs usually no more than $50. And they look different. Are your satchels specially constructed or something? :) (As long as they're so expensive)
Do they use e-books in your schools? I've heard it's a new tendency in schools for pupils to have gadgets with e-books instead of using ordinary (paper) textbooks