Journal

Tobeyaki-umechans, who study NanaoreUme ( aplum ), went to Tobe town to collect leaves for material of their study.

They cooperated with Youji Higashi, therepresentative director of Nanaore Ume Plum Cooperative Association, and MasaruTakeuchi, the processing and selling manager. They gathered the green leavesremaining in the trees.

It cannot be said that leaves aresufficient amount.  We dry them and burnthem to cinders.

I’m looking forward to seeing what kind ofglaze it will be!  (Inoue Hiroaki)
   

Tobe-yakiUmechans finish making the ash of plums. Theyworked very hard. They completed test pieces with the cooperation of Karasudani-sensei,a teacher of Tobe branch school.　Interestingly, themixture of Fukushima feldspar (20%) and the ash (80%) developed the strongestcolor and there was no effective color development with only the ash. Inaddition, when they covered a test piece with transparent glaze, the colordisappeared after it was baked. They try to analyze ingredients and make a mechanismof plum’s coloring clear, comparing with coloring of ginkgo leaves.  (T.Y)

　

Today we had the 14^th SS.  Second graders’ challenge researches are makingprogress very well.  They got advice fromgraduate students of Ehime University and many other people.  They search for better research contents.  We are looking forward to seeing how far theirresearches will develop in the remaining period. (Y.T)

 Graduate students of Ehime University helpthem.
 

  
She’s used to separating substancesby a centrifuge. 

They can also measure oxygen concentrationvery well.

Mathematic team is reviewing theirdata.

Today fifteen students and teachers of oursister school, Taipei Municipal Jianguo Senior High School visited us.  We were together throughout the day.  We visited their high school six times for sixstraight years.  We gave presentations onour studies there.  This is their firstvisit to our school.  We did anexperiment to extract our DNA during the biology class, communicating with eachother in English.  Matsuyama Minami HighSchool continues to focus on international exchanges in the future. (O.M.)