Does your tongue twist?

Here is a cool link we found on Gillian's blog. It is a whole bunch of tongue twisters. We had a ball listening and trying to say each one. Click over here and try it out yourself. FUN!

Our friends in Japan

Recently, Ellen told us about her friend Gillian who teaches in Japan. The cool thing about her teaching in Japan is that she teaches at a Canadian school there. Most of the classes are taught in English but most of the students are Japanese. That means the kids are really bi-lingual!
We are going to kind of share our blogs and learning experiences. We want to find out how school is similar and different for both of us. I hope you enjoy our adventure...
Click here to find Gillian's blog.

Our class in 2010

Our school year starts in February so we are actually in term two now and just remembered we should be blogging.

We are a class of kids in grades 2, 3 and 4. That means we range from ages 7 through to 10 years old. We call this multi-ages. Our classrooms are VERY big and most of them have two teachers. Because we have two teachers, it is like a double class. We have about 47 kids in the room. In fact, our room is connected to the room next door by a middle-sized room. When we have all the doors open, it is VERY, VERY big and there are about 100 kids. Our two teachers are Ellen and Fiona. Fiona is from Scotland. We often split up to do our work into Fiona's group and Ellen's group. We also do lots of work together. Last year, all classrooms got interacive whiteboards (SMARTboards). We love ours.

Our school starts at 9.00 am and finishes at 3.30 pm.

People at our school have lots of different back grounds. Lots of people were born in Australia but lots were born in different countries like; New Zealand, China, Sri Lanka, France, Singapore, Britain, America, Greece, Scotland, Somalia and Cyprus. That makes us a very multi-cultural school.

Bye for now...