Children from Hoshimigaoka Elementary School in Kuwana play in the mud before rice planting, also helping with plowing, Mie

[Kuwana] On the 13th, 47 fifth graders from Hoshimigaoka Elementary School in Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture, played in the mud in the rice fields of Hoshikawa in the city. They held hands with their friends and walked through the fields, or ran around. Covered in mud, they enjoyed the feel of the soil. As part of the fifth graders' rice cultivation studies, this was a regular activity that also involved plowing the fields. On the 21st, in the same…