Game On!

A competition is afoot!

In International Studies, we have begun our new topic: Multiculturalism. With this comes a competition. Each IS1 class has been split into three groups. Monday’s class decided upon these as their team names:

1)    Silly Sausages

2)    The Snapes

3)    Leviosa

As you can see, we may have a few – ahem – Harry Potter fans.

Wednesday’s class didn’t believe me when I said I’d take their first replies as their group names. We therefore have:

1)    No Idea

2)    The Ummms...

3)    Not sure

You may see a theme there.

Over the course of this topic, the teams will participate in three activities. Their work on these activities will then be judged and an overall winner for each class will be chosen.

So what is the first activity? Each team has been tasked with researching and presenting information on one cultural celebration: Diwali, Christmas, or the Chinese New Year. In this week’s lesson they researched their celebration and began to think about how they could present it to the rest of the class in an interesting, entertaining way.

The teams have been given some of next week’s lesson to complete their preparations before PRESENTATION TIME! Watch this space...

One of the beauties of this job is that I get to work with all age groups. While working with Harry Potter-obsessed teenagers is extremely awesome, I’ve also been enjoying my time with the little ones (or "littleuns" as some of us call them in England). 

In Kindergarten, we’ve been getting very crafty. We’ve made lots of things including fluffy cloud ornaments, bouncy snakes and face flags (the children's were much better than my example)!

Overall the weeks are flying by in all of their thoughtful, fun and colourful ways.