Club activities take place at least once during the week. Most Japanese students do not wear uniforms during elementary school. They dress like we do for school, except that they wear special slippers shoes inside the school. Students carry colored back packs that identify what class or school they are in. The back packs are stored in the back of the classrooms.
Most Japanese children write with pencils and pens when they do school work.
Japanese children also learn the art of calligraphy in penmanship class. In calligraphy class, the Japanese children learn to draw words like pictures. They use black ink and special brushes to produce these word pictures. The pictures are symbols that represent words. The symbols are called kanji.