Hikari No Gakko Salinas

Just want to let everyone know that signupgenius is now active to sign up for volunteer slots for our 2017 Hikari No Gakko program. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Hello Hikari No Gakko Families! This year, Hikari No Gakko will be from June 12th to June 23rd, 2017! We look forward to seeing all of your children again!!

Just a reminder! Please help support Hikari no Gakko, a Japanese cultural camp in Salinas, by attending PacRep's Wizard of Oz! Bring your friends too! Tickets must be purchased through Hikari no Gakko so please contact Valerie Onitsuka. Arigato!

Hello All Gakko Families!!! Please help spread the word about our Hikari no Gakko fundraiser, flyer attached below. PacRep Theatre is being very generous in allowing us to use their show, The Wizard of Oz, to help raise funds for Gakko. For the past few years at Gakko, we have been falling short of breaking even and we have to raise fees every summer for our campers. We are really trying to keep the fees low, but it's getting harder and harder to do. This fundraiser has the p...otential to raise us a lot of money, but we have to sell the tickets!! :) Please feel free to share this flyer via email, social media or hand them out to friends/family. Please remind your friends that they MUST purchase the tickets from us and not through PacRep's ticket office. This flyer will also be emailed out to the Gakko families and shared via FB but in the meantime, please feel to share and spread the word. Valerie's contact info is on the flyer to purchase the tickets or for questions. For those of you who aren't familiar with the Forest Theatre in Carmel - it's an outdoor theatre a great stage and beautiful setting and Wizard of Oz will be magical! It's a fun evening - families can bring food and have a picnic, sip some wine and enjoy a great show with their friends. Thanks everyone! Hope you are all enjoying your summer! Hope to see you at the show!

Hikari no Gakko Fundraising Event! Hikari no Gakko will be selling will call tickets to Carmel's Outdoor Forest Theatre's performance of The Wizard Of Oz showing on Saturday, August 20th, 2016, at 7:30 pm. Tickets are Adults: $40, Students (ages 13-21): $15, Children (ages 12 and under): $10. Families will be eligible for a raffle to win a Gakko "Goodie Bag", for each group purchase of 2 or more tickets. Proceeds will benefit Hikari no Gakko. Purchase will call tickets at the Gakko sign-in table for this wonderful event!

Our 2nd Annual Movie Night was a great success! We featured Big Hero 6 and had a great turnout! Thank you to Don & Annie Yoshimura for picking up the pizzas and for the donation of strawberries! The students layed out their blankets and sleeping bags and had a great night watching the movie! Thank you to all the teens and parents who helped with set up and clean up of the movie night!

It's hard to believe that we are halfway throught Gakko now! Day 5 was an exciting day for all! 4th grade was in the kitchen making Spam Musubi! Yummy! It was an exciting day for all students, busy learing and making a variety of crafts! The highlight of the day was our "Undotaikai", Sports Festival. Thank you to all the teen volunteers for running it all and putting together all the games for the students! A special thank you to teen volunteer, Kaila Uota, who organized the whole event! The students had a blast!

The days of Gakko seem to be whizzing by! Today, the 6th grade class had their field trip to the Japanese American Museum in San Jose! The students had a great time and learned a lot about the Japanese American Internment during World War 2. Afterwards they enjoyed chicken teriyaki bentos and visited a few of the shops in Japantown. 7th grade had a Japanese Calligraphy class taught by Rev. Fujikawa and 5th grade learned to Sumie paint Darumas by Kahori Kuramura. 3rd grade... was in the kitchen making panda rice balls and somen (Japanese cold noodles)! One of the highlights today was in the 4th grade class and a visit by Michael Kanner and making bamboo flutes! At the end of the day, we had a demonstration by Jimmy Eitoku and the Salinas Kendo Club. The students were very attentive and were able to use a "shinai" to hit the kendo students! Some of the Kendo Club students were current and past Gakko students! See more

Every morning we start the day with morning excercises to get us our blood flowing for all things Gakko! Led by the teen volunteers, all the students, teachers, and even some parents are ready to start their day! Today, the 6th grade class was in the kitchen learing to make sushi! The students were able to create their own variation of a California roll. Today's demonstration was given by Annie's daughter, Rachel, author of the book, Rachie Bakes! http://www.blurb.com/b/6...902832-rachie-bakes The 3rd & 4th grade class had their Sumie Art class today taught by Daphnee Parachini, owner of The Roaring Mice Art Studio, in Salinas. http://www.yelp.com/biz/roaring-mice-art-studio-salinas Not only did Daphnee teach Sumie painting but she also taught the history of the Art of Sumie!

Day 2 of Gakko was another exciting day for all the students! All the students continued their music class and worked on a variety of projects in their class. 5th Grade had a Japanese Calligraphy class given by the church's resident minister, Rev. Fujikawa. 1st grade was in the kitchen today and made delicious miso soup and cute panda rice balls! They were so cute that I'm sure the kids still have them at home!

Day 1: The first day of Gakko and it was an exciting day for all returning students, seeing old classmates from previous years! Even more exciting for the new Gakko students! It seems like everyone quickly became friends and had a great day! Kinder enjoyed cooking teriyaki hot dogs and making cute little rice balls! 6th grade had their Sumie art class taught by Kahori Kuramura! Ottone Sensei was busy teaching the students their songs for the Open House! The highlight of the day had to be the Aikido demonstration given by our very own 6th grade sensei, Sakamoto Sensei, and his colleague, Stromberg Sensei, from Monterey Aikido.