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    Christine Moguel
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    http://suihoen.thejapanesegarden.com/new/

    This webiste serves as a resource for my instruction into East Asian Culture in that it gives information about the art of the Japanese Garden, here in Los Angeles.

    As a Special Education teacher with students ages 18-22, we not only teach the functional academics but we also instruct our students how to navigate throughout the community using public transportation, vocational, social/emotional, and recreational skills.  On one of our weekly trips out to the community it would be amazing to visit these gardens.  The students can take a glimpse into an actual Japanese garden- and as a pre lesson we could explore the meaning behind the structure and organization of a Japanese garden.

    The garden tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the busy LA life is special place where there is a dry Zen meditation garden (karesansui) containing Tortoise Island, a three-Buddha arrangement of stones, and a wisteria arbor across a Plover Path. Next along the path is an expansive Chisen or “wet-strolling” garden with waterfalls, lakes and streams, abundant greenery, and stone lanterns which were hand-carved by artisans in Japan..

     Some of our students are learning about how to tend to a garden – as they have a horticulture class at our school.  The students, aside from learning to identify the different flowers and trees, they  are learning how to tend to the gardens at our school.  At the gardens, my students can learn to identify flowers such as azaleas, cherry trees, magnolias, wisteria, raphiolepis indica, iris and lotus flowers.

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