{"id":8746,"date":"2019-03-28T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=8746"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T18:38:14","slug":"april-classroom-calendar-showa-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/april-classroom-calendar-showa-day","title":{"rendered":"Our April classroom calendar: Showa Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explorica is very proud of our new resource for teachers: our 2018-19 Around the World classroom calendar!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The calendar features a new country and an international holiday or event for you to celebrate with your students each month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/April-2019-1.pdf\">Download<\/a> a new page each month on this blog (and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/4A322D444EFA67DF\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subscribe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!), hang it up in your classroom, and talk to your students about how the holiday reflects the country\u2019s history and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This April, we\u2019re featuring Showa Day. Showa Day falls on the birthday of Emperor Showa, who ruled Japan from 1926 to 1989. On April 29, Japanese people reflect on this turbulent period and celebrate the beginning of Golden Week. Golden Week is a period of spring holidays wherein many Japanese take time off work and travel, especially to the best spots to view cherry blossoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other holidays that fall during Golden Week are Constitution Memorial Day on May 3, Greenery Day on May 4, and Children\u2019s Day on May 5. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Questions to ask your students:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you think of any reasons why Emperor Showa is regarded as a controversial figure? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What other natural wonders do people travel to see only at certain times of year?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you know what the United States\u2019 national flower is?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interested in taking your students to Japan? Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/educational-tours\/japan-in-depth.aspx\">Japan in Depth<\/a> itinerary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explorica is very proud of our new resource for teachers: our 2018-19 Around the World classroom calendar! The calendar features a new country and an international holiday or event for you to celebrate with your students each month. Download a new page each month on this blog (and subscribe!), hang it up in your classroom, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/april-classroom-calendar-showa-day\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8807,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8746\/revisions\/8807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}