Danvan and Mrs Beal had a great adventure on Monday. Mrs Beal and two other teachers in South Africa were invited by National Education to fly to Johanesburg to Microsoft’s offices to take part in a videoconference with three Nigerian teachers in Abuja. Each teacher was asked to bring a student, so Danvan went with Mrs Beal. They met the Deputy Minister of Education and took part in a whole morning of activities. All the participants were given a book about Nelson Mandela by the Deputy Minister of Education. It was a very exciting day.
Our school participated in ‘Bandanna Day – Rope of Hope’ recently in support of cancer patients helped by the Sunflower fund. The classes had a competition to see who could bring the most bandannas to school. Grade 4&5B won the bandanna competition by bringing 61 bandannas. The whole school made a ‘rope of hope’ out of bandannas right around the school.
We have been using a lovely free programme called Microsoft Autocollage to make cards for our senior citizens. We invited them to come and visit us again so that we could give them their cards.
Today I noticed that Miss Ale in Argentina has put all our two-nation and three-nation collaborative stories on her school website in Argentina. Wow! Thank you Miss Ale – you have done this beautifully. It was a great experience writing with Argentina and Canada. Here is the link:
I have chosen Jengil’s writing today to tell you about the exciting day we had on a pirate ship. “Yesterday on the 20th October we went on a fabulous outing to the waterfront and you’d never guess what we did! We sailed on a REAL pirate ship. It was wicked! It was called the Jolly Rodger! When we first climbed on everyone was racing round the boat exploring the decks of the ship. There was even a bar where you could buy drinks – not much in the line of kiddies drinks though, only beers, rums, whiskey – all very yucky for us! Then the engine roared and we all leaned over the edge trying to see the boat splatter through the waves, keeping our eyes peeled for dolphins, whales, penguins, and seals. We sailed off into the distance. Exiting the harbour we spotted a seal kindly greeting us with its flipper in the air. We sailed further away from the harbour and it became clear that there was land ahoy but not just any land bu Robben Island! Although we weren’t adventuring to Robben Island we were still very excited. The pirates started doing a play for us. I didn’t understand much so I think a pirate’s life must be very confusing! WE kept sailing and THEN the moment the whole class was waiting for… DOLPHINS! They were gently leaping in and out of the water. Our mouths dropped open, but then they disappeared just like that! The pirates started giving us tattoos that said THE JOLLY ROGER! We started turning around and a few minutes later heaved ourselves back into the harbour! And Then Mrs B let us go shoppingAfter the outing we were all tired but after all it was a spectacular day! ARRRRRRG!”
Today there was great excitement at school because our national children’s television programme KTV sent their presenters to our school to present a big cheque to the school. Cailom won nationally with her seaweed vuvuzelas.
We are happy to say that we have competed the first part of our Country Voice-thread project which we are doing with Miss Ale in Argentina and hopefully some other countries too. Would you like to join us? Please note how some of Miss Ale’s students have commented on a couple of our slides. Thank you Miss Ale!
This voice-thread can also be viewed in full screen at the following link: http://voicethread.com/#u445145.b606410.i3231498
Grade 4&5B donated some of their individual earnings from KTV Market Day to the Sunflower Fund, and handed over their money gift in the classroom today. The representatives from the fund explained about the work of the Sunflower Fund and handed out bandanas to the class in preparation for Bandana Day. “The Sunflower Fund aims to educate and recruit a viable source of well-informed potential bone marrow stem cell donors who are ethnically diverse, in an effort to save the lives of those needing a transplant when suffering from life-threatening blood disorders.” (Taken from their website)
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