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.
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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! 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)    We are very proud of or Grade 4&5Bs. On Saturday 5 September twenty children from our school, mainly from Grade 4&5B entered the KTV (Kids TV) Market Day competition at one of the big malls in Cape Town. They had already submitted business plans to the organizers explaining what they planned to sell and how they had made their products, and were accepted to participate based on these business plans. The organizers were very impressed with their creative organization and selling skills. Cailom won R10,000 for her innovative product – Vuvuzelas from seaweed. She gets R6000 and the school gets R4000. Danvan and Gaiwhe won first prize for their product – Knick Knack Knockers and each received goodie bags from KTV. Geocro and her partner from another class won prizes in the talent show. Mrs B received a R5000 award for the best teacher since her students achieved so many prizes. Well done class! We have just heard that Cailom has won the national KTV award for her innovative product, and the school gets R25,000. KTV is coming to film the class and the school next week!    We are very excited because Miss Ale in Argentina has invited us to participate in a collaborative voicethread project with her Grade 6 group in a couple of weeks time. Today in class we practised using voicethread and we made a quick class newsletter. Great fun! To view a full page of this voice thread please visit the following link. http://voicethread.com/share/588997/ (When you are there, click on the full page icon to the left of the closing cross. To obtain an even larger full page view in Internet Explorer click on View/Full screen). Our school was recently involved in an advert and some of Grade 4&5B’s students were in the advert. Here is is! We had an exciting visitor from the USA today – Mrs Geel, who teaches Grade 3 at Dutch Nek School in New Jersey. (Her outgoing class was linked to our class. They interviewed their grandparents after hearing about our project and they wrote comments in our blogs). We had a great time hearing about schools in the USA and how they operate. Mrs Geel brought a lovely children’s book along about President Barak Obama, as a gift from her class to our class. She read portions from it and showed us how Barak Obama’s parents and grandparents stressed the importance of education when he was growing up. Thank you for a wonderful visit, Mrs Geel.    At the end of her visit the class broke into spontaneous song singing a song they had just learned in drama! We have started a new project as we continue with our blogging journey … it is called the Keeping-In-Touch Club. We have found out the names of all the new immigrants to our school in the last year, whether they be refugees from other parts of Africa, or families that have moved to South Africa for work purposes. The class has linked with each one, and is helping them to create and maintain blogs in the hope that this will enable them to keep in touch with their extended family and friends back in their original countries.    Our school musical, Peter Pan, is due to start next month and three members of our Grade 4/5 class have lead roles in the play. Danvan is Peter Pan! Here he is learning to fly in the school hall. Go Peter Pan!    We have loved getting to know our senior citizens and teaching them to blog. We enjoy inviting them back at regular intervals to catch up on news and show them what we’re doing in our blogs. (This is an ongoing project.) Here is a short video about our project. |
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