Ghana!

This past Wednesday students in Division 1 talked about soccer, one of Ghana’s favorite activities.  They learned Ghana’s national “football” (soccer) team is called the ‘Black Stars,’  listened to the Ghana national anthem and played soccer outside.

 

On Thursday students had the opportunity to understand what it would be like going to school in Ghana.  They watched a short video clip and then enacted walking to school by walking around the outside field 4 times.  Once they arrived ‘at school’ they had to sit in rows. 

 

 

Then, they filled in letters to send to students in Ghana, (Sarah’s friend works with many children there).  They wrote about their favourite part of school, drew a picture of their family and described what they wanted to be when they grew up! 

 

 

In Sarah’s math group the students have been learning about measurement.  This past week they learned about non-standard units of measurement.  They listened to a story called, ‘How Big is a Foot,’ by Rolf Myller.  It is a silly story that explains how the King’s foot is a different size than the apprentices foot which results in a few mistakes when making a bed for the Queen!   

 

Students traced and cut out their own foot, which they used the next day to estimate and measure different objects outside on the playground! 

Div. 2 had an awesome week full of “smells”!

In Olivia’s math class, the kids are also learning about measurement. On Wednesday, the students took their stinky feet out of their shoes to trace. It was a smelly experience! Then, the students used cubes, paper clips, and cars to see how long their feet were.

The next day, they learned about centimetres by cutting play dough. Some of us even put together two pieces to make two centimetres!

On Friday, the kids became researchers of balance scales. They had to research what the balance scales do and report back to Olivia to tell her everything that they found out. They explored the balance scale by using things in the classroom. They had so much fun that they started to use more and more objects to weigh together.

 

The children in Div. 2 learned about the cuisine of Ghana, Africa this week! They made a specialty called Jollof Rice. All the kids worked hard chopping up ingredients to make this delicious dish! Ingredient stations included: the onion station (also called the “crying” station), the garlic station, the carrot station, the green pepper station, and the tomato station. Once the ingredients were ready, we put all the ingredients in the pot and talked about how it smelled, how it looked, and predicted if it was going to be like a risotto or if it was going to be like rice in soup. We each had a turn to stir, and voilà! Turns out the liquid all soaked up! Our classroom was also one of the most delicious smelling classrooms there ever was!

Our Jollof Rice took a long time to cook, but we all waited patiently.  We each got to try some and we absolutely loved it! Our master chefs will let you all in on their secret Jollof Rice recipe very soon! So stay tuned!

Lastly, Div. 2 read a story called The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth. We made our own Kente Cloths by weaving strips of paper and drawing patterns on them. We then compared our own clothes to the Kente Cloth.

 That is all for now!