Friday, August 19, 2016

Week Six Term Three

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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