International Week!

This week we have been doing an international week. In school we have had teachers from Tanzania, Brazil and Senegal. We keep in touch with the teachers to have world links so now and again they come come over to England we go over there. Everyday this week has had a different country subject, so monday was all about britian and why it was good to be british. Also that day all of the teachers arrived, first the Brazillian teacher then the Tanzinian. Finally the Senegulese.
Yesterday on tuesday our classes went to different classrooms and did different things. In Reception we wrote leters to gordon brown about human traffiking which is basically about children having rights in the world. The letters are actually going to be sent off!! In year 1 we listened to a story called Mr Dry Bones. After in year 2 the Senegulease teachers told us some facts about Senegal like they have a river which is a rose colour! In year 3 the the teachers told us a story about a poor man and a lion with a thorn in his foot. After that in year 4and 5 we made a slave ship and wrote about how we thought we would feel if we were one of the slaves. Finally in year 6 we made fact files about slavery. Today only years 3,4,5 and 6 have taken part in the theme day and in Year 6 we made Hammer bead Jewelry, Year 4 and 5 we made pankackes and played the drums then last of all In year 3 we made a mount Kilimanjaro!

This week

This week has been called international week. We have invited teachers from Senegal, Tanzania and Brazil to come a see us. Each day has been focused on a diffrent day. Monday=Britan. We said about why it was good to be british and we focused on the well known story, Jack and the beanstalk. We did about texting, emailing, speech marks and stuff. Tuesday=Senegal day. We heard traditiiona stories and we asked the Senegal teachers what it was like living in Senegal. We keep in touch with these teachers for world links. Wednesday (Today)=Tanzania. The groups are put in are named after indian tribes in Tanzania. In Mr Middlebroughs room, we made Tanzanian jewlery with hammer beads and string. Some of the year six girls found out there was glow-in-the-dark hammer beads and got very exited. In Mrs Rices room we made traditional Tanzaia pancakes. Yummy yummy! Then, in Miss Warburton's area, we have been making Killimagaro and painting it. Whilst some children have been painting the mountin, others have been blogging about the week so far. Tommorow, some kids think it might be about Brizil. Who knows?

Kilimanjaro

kilimanjaro facts

• kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa and the world’s highest free-standing mountain.
• Kilimanjaro lies 205 miles South of the equator and stands on Tanzania’s northern border with Kenya.
• - Kilimanjaro supports 5 major eco-zones: rainforest, heath, moorland, alpine desert and glaciers.
• The name Kilimanjaro has no certain origin, but one of the most popular theories is that it came from KILMA NJARO meaning “shining mountain” in Swahili. The shiny snow on the peak led nearby residents to believe that evil spirits guarded the mountain. This myth could also explain why some referred to NJARO

- Because they saw fellow tribe members attempt the climb only to disappear or to return deformed from frostbite, the Chagga people—who live at the base of the mountain—for centuries had no desire to climb the mountain they believed was full of evil spirits.

mount kilomanjaro is the tallest mountain in Africa.It was formed 500000 years ago.

Mount Kilimanjaro

1 Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the largest stratovolcanoes in the world.
2The last eruptions on the mountain were between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago.