Soon I will be flying to Zimbabwe for the next installation of my travels for Connecting Classrooms! We are excitedly doing classroom activities to pass on to our friends in Kadoma!
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Our talented Miss Shaw came up with this inspired idea! A Christmas tree filled with "wishes" from all the homeless cats and dogs of tears. Wow! The whole school contributed and boy did we have a lot of gifts! The Santa Shoebox Project distributes gifts to thousands of underprivileged children in South Africa and Namibia. 5P pledged 14 boxes this year. As a class, we decided to make even more sandwiches than usual on Friday, so that they could be given to those less fortunate than ourselves. How amazing is this elephant that our connecting classroom school - Charles Darwin- made???? It is a combination of all 3 flags- South Africa, United Kingdom and Zimbabwe. The ears are our schools emblems. Well done Jo and Shell on this fabulous project! We learnt all about Brazil as they are hosting the soccer World Cup this year! We decorated our door in a rain forest theme. We also made carnival masks and made a jersey for each of the players. This week we focused on World Water Week. Each class in the school had to design a poster about saving water or the importance of water. Our design was special as we wanted to include our Connecting Classroom schools on our poster, so we drew a map of Africa and identified where South Africa, Zimbabwe and UK were on the map. It was great fun tearing up all the paper and creating a mosaic globe! We also found the facts about water very interesting. We ended the week with a school assembly about the importance of water. Mr Tarr is currently doing his teaching practical in our class. As one of his environmental lessons, we discussed what the term "sustainable living" means. Then we worked on what our "carbon footprint" is. We started off the term by planting some veggies. As you can see, the butternut is really taking off! We also planted peas, broccoli, tomatoes, carrots and beans. We played around on the Smartboard. We learnt that HARARE is Zimbabwe's capital. We also had a look at Eiffel Flats' school website and photo gallery. |
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