Thank You Sarah and Olivia!

This was our last week with our wonderful student teachers, Sarah and Olivia.  While it was incredibly sad to see them go they made sure we had a great last week with them.   

Division 1 made beautiful Batik art with Sarah.  First the students drew their picture on paper, next they put a white piece of cloth over top and traced their drawing with special glue. 

 

Once the glue dried, they painted their cloth and Sarah took them home to wash and press them.  They turned out GORGEOUS! Sarah made Division 1 a Batik cloth that she framed to be hung in the class to remember her by.

 

On Friday, Division 1 boarded an airplane back to Canada.  Their African trip was a blast and they learned so much but it was time to come home.  The students enjoyed an in-flight service snack and were drilled by Wendy the “border guard” when entering back into Canada. 

 

Division 2 Worked really hard all week preparing for their African family party on Thursday afternoon.  The students prepared several stations where they got a chance to teach their parents a little bit of what they have learned about Africa. 

There was basket weaving.

 

 Jewelery making

  

Pin the trunk on the elephant

A sound game, teaching the parents about Africa's Big 5

Drumming

 

The party had other stations such as guessing how long it takes to fly from Vancouver to Ghana and learning how to make Jollof rice and getting a chance to taste it.  For the grand finale of their African party, Division 2 performed an impressive African drumming and dance routine.

The beginning of the week had such great weather that both divisions played fun games out in the sun for gym class. First we played Shadow Tag.  A game where ten students were “it” and the rest of the students had to run away while the “it’s” tried to freeze them by stepping on their shadows.   The students got very sweaty but had a great time. 

Next, we played a game of Grounders.  The teachers were 'it' and it didn’t take long for everyone to get caught.

 

Later in the week when the sun decided to hide, the students had fun playing Dr. Dodge ball.

 

On Friday afternoon, we surprised Sarah and Olivia with a big goodbye party with all the families.  There was a huge table packed with delicious treats and everyone had a wonderful time.   

To start off our party the students “popped up” and said why they love Sarah and Olivia. 

 Next, the classes presented each student teacher with their own hand made class books to help remember the students by.  Each student wrote why they loved their student teacher and drew a beautiful picture. 

While there were many tears shed there were great memories made throughout the student’s time with both Sarah and Olivia.  

 

We will miss you both so much.  Thank you for all your love and support and best of luck with your new teaching careers!  We hope you will come back to visit us soon!