Guest Speaker - Shireen

Today we had Tashi's Mum come and speak to us about rice. We learnt about the importance of rice in our region and different ways people can use rice.

Here are some of the comments the students made about what they learnt:

• I learnt about the Dragon Boat festival
• I learnt that in Indonesia they use a yellow rice dish called Nasi Kuning Tumpeng instead of birthday cakes. 
• There are stories and folk stories about rice from China and Japan
• For Chinese New Year and winter solstice people make glutinous rice balls
• Rice is sticky and you can make glue using cooked rice and water
• There are different types of rice all around the world
• Japans keeps the best rice grown in Japan for themselves
• There is long and short grain rice
• Rice is eaten at festivals and celebrations
• Rice is useful
• Rice is a medicine. When people are sick rice water can help you get better. 
• People wash their face with rice water and water the plants. 

Does your family use rice or another staple food crop in celebrations? 

What food is important to your family? Why? 

What did your parents or Grandparents eat when they were growing up? Is it the same or different to what you eat now? 

Leave a comment with your answers.