Interviewing a professional soccer player.
Presenting reports on Olympic athletes.
The Olympics for little kids and teachers in tutus.
A writer's workshop.
Monday
August 15 to Friday August 19th
This
was a very busy week at school. The whole school has an Olympic
focus. We invited a French professional soccer player named Ben
Khalfallah, who played for Bordeaux and is now living in Australia
and plays for the Melbourne Victory to speak to the students. His
children go to our school. We had the kids prepare questions for him
and we ran a press interview session.
The
prep to grade 2 students had their Olympic sporting day where the
teachers and Leora prepared a number of events for them to do
outside.
Claire's
and my class had a PowerPoint project to do about the history of one
of the Olympic sports and a presentation about an Olympic athlete of
their choice. So this week we are listening and watching the
presentations.
If
that was not enough we also had an author come to the school and
present a writer's workshop to all the grade 3-6 students. His name
was George Ivanoff and he has written a wide variety of books, but
the ones the kids like the best are the 'you choose' series, where
the reader gets to chose his or her path through the book as the plot
unfolds. After every couple of pages the author gives the reader a
couple of path choices and the coressponding page to go to. It's like
a maze and there are many dead ends. It was really interesting to
hear him talk about how he had to plan those books very carefully. I
think the kids got that message.
Other
than that, I came down with a little head cold.
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