11th Oct. 2023 : Kawaii Project weekly meeting on Zoom with pupils

October 11（Wed.）11：10～12：50Kawaii Is The Best! Project Meeting Agenda

Participants: Dr. Kadota, Dr. Iwabuchi,Kazuki, Aisha, Miku-san, Saki, Eda, Matsumoto, 5 years-old pupils in Sumire Childcare Center)　　　　　　　　　　　Written by Matsumoto, and translated by Saki

🌷What we asked pupils【About ice-cream cups】Q. What do you do after eating ice cream? Do you throw cups away?・“I will throw away.”・“I will store it in my container for toys”・“I feel sad if they throw away the cups with our paints on it.”・“How about setting a collection area for our ice-cream cups?”・“Give it back to the staff.”・“I will bring it back home and use it to make something.”

Q. It is hard to paint on all the ice-cream cups. What can we do to reduce our tasks?・“Put stickers on it.”・“Put variety of stickers on it.”・“We can let PC and tablets memorize our paints, and copy them.”・“I want to roll papers around the cups.”

【About the signboard of the ice-cream shop】Q. We talked about making a signboard, but have you ever been to festivals?→Quite a lot of pupils raised their hands

Then, have you ever been to the stalls of festivals? For example, goldfish scooping and shaved ice.→Pupils raised their hands again

Head of the kindergarten: “We have just had a summer festival recently, so I guess they understand well.”

Q. “We will make eight signboards. If eight groups make one each, we will have eight signs. If we have so many, customers may get confused. So what should we do?"・“It's hard if everyone makes so many signs together, so we'll work together to paint one large signboard.”・“Draw a picture of ice cream on a large board.”・“Put the sign on top of the store.”・“Divide ourselves into two groups. One group will make cups and the other group will make signboards.”・“Let’s make two shapes. One is a long horizontal board and we will put it on top of the store. The other one is a square one and we will place it beside the store."・“Everyone paints together on a same board little by little.”

→“I can't decide because everyone gave me so many opinions, so I'm going to talk with other university students and Ka-kun's teacher. So I'll consult them and decide."

🌷Questions from pupilsQ. Do you have something to ask?・ “We don’t know how many people will come to the festival, so let me know the numbers.”・“I can’t wait to make ice creams!”・“I want my school friends to help us.”→ “We don’t know how many people will come, so we will let you know how many cups we will make as soon as we know.”

・“How we will make the stall?”→ “We’ve already got a tent.”

Feedback from Dr. Kadota“Everyone in Sumire has such amazing ideas. I really want you to come to the university now. We want to proceed with the preparation painting and discussing a bit more, so please let us know if there is anything you want to do! If you have any ideas, please let me know. See you again on the 25th.”