Had some more butterflies that I wanted to share so I made a collage. The variety in nature is amazing. I guess variety is the spice of life.
Yesterday, Cycle 1 and 2 (Grades 1-4) had participated in their Challenge Day activities. Today the other 2 activities took place. It was a day for the oldest and youngest students to get moving. Cycle 3 (Grades 5 & 6) participated in the morning and then Kindergarten and PreK finished the day off. Phil, a Cycle 3 student from one of the other classes, hurt his arm a few weeks ago and wasn't able to participate. He volunteered to be the official photographer so I gave him a quick 'how to' lesson and he went off to snap the kids in action. Since yesterday's collage focused on the activities I thought today's would be focus on the many happy faces. One of my favourites is the grin with the missing teeth. I'd say from these faces that a good time was had by all.
Cycle 3's are working on a striking unit in Gym. They're learning about and practicing the skill with various implements and grips. Peg wanted to show them right and wrong examples. I decided to join my kids for their class and take some pictures. Can you tell which are the right examples?
Today we had another YAK activity for students who had succeeded in speaking English inside and outside the school over the last 6 weeks. We have these activities every 6 weeks or so. As I've mentioned before, we're an English school situated in a French city and most of our students are French Mother Tongue. When students are 'caught' speaking French they get a YAK ticket. We set a limit and if students manage to receive the limit or less they are invited to attend the activity. This activity was skating and sliding behind the school. The rink and hill are situated in the middle of the field where we do Walk Around the World. The ice is maintained by the city but we have been given access. As you can see in the pics the students who attended had a wonderful time.
Just updated my computer which means I now have access to the new Apple app store. Yahoo! They have all kinds of interesting apps. Of course I checked out the photography ones first. I found a very cool one called Collage. You can choose an unlimited number of photos and it will put them in a collage for you. You can then do a bit of moving around and adjusting, save it as a jpg and then all that's left is putting it on your blog. I spent some time playing with it and decided to choose some of my pics from 2010 and create a blog. It's kind of cheating because I didn't take these pictures today but I did create the collage.
