The Other Side of the Earth

We have been having a fun break from school! Before that we were learning about rocks and soils and we learnt about the layers of the earth with an avocado. There is an outer layer called the crust, then the mantle, then an outer core and an inner core. We read a book about digging a hole to the other side of the world. If we start digging in the Indian Ocean here, we would come out in North America! I wish we could really do that!

Figuring out the layers of the earth before lunch

But now we have the Canada team with us and we are having lots of fun. They didn't dig here, they came on a plane. But we took them to Magozi and did lots of digging then with Mama Lucy and Kalista, Mama Juliana and Mama Meriziana. We had fun playing with the children and making bracelets. We went to the secondary school and did more gardening. We have lots of fun with Tia and Dean and we have taken them to Hasty Tasty!

We have Team Hoodies!



Me playing Go-Go-Stop!



Amisadai and Pavel with the baby goat

The goat was only 3 days old!

Working hard digging up the poo!

Acrostic Arctic Poems

Here are some acrostic poems we have written for our Arctic unit. Can you send us some of yours? You have to think of a word and start each line with every letter of the word.

Summer In The Arctic

Arctic snow starts to go

Reindeer Run

Caribou in all direction

Terns Return

Ice melts

Cold winds brushing past you

By Amisadai Monger

THE  ARCTIC

Arctic hares

Running Arctic foxes chase

Cold  snow  and  ice 

Terns  flying

Igloos

Caribou  Running

By Louisa Monger

SEALS

Seals slip and slide

Elephant seals roar

Antarctic and Arctic live

Love eating krill

By Amisadai and Louisa

Amisadai's News

My tooth came out the other day. I got 1000 shillings!

Testing strength of papers

 We have done lots of science experiments. We are learning about materials and their properties. We have tested papers for absorbency (a serviette was the most absorbent and newspaper was the least). We also tested papers for their strength and tested different materials to find waterproof materials. We are finishing the Arctic and Antarctica and starting Rocks and Soils. We are going to have some field trips when James and Dan come to visit!

We have started having Swahili lessons. We like our teachers Tungu and Kiobya. We have been learning to count to hundred and learning lots of words. We have another lesson tomorrow. We have been forgetting to add words to our Swahili page so I will put some new words there for you to learn.

Louisa had to tell a story for Literacy so we made a puppet theatre and did a puppet show of the Pied Piper. I played the recorder and helped her with the puppets.

The Pied Piper Puppet Show

Yesterday, a Christmas parcel arrived! It said Don't Open Until Christmas Day. But that was for last year! We got some yummy chocolates!

Amisadai's Footwear Fun Data Results

Results show that the favourite shoe is TRAINERS and the favourite colour of shoes is BROWN! I have more results to come later!

Fav Shoes Graph

Louisa's Data Results

I have Your Favourite Polar Animals! Did you guess which animal might be the favourite one?
No one voted for the caribou but we think that is a very useful animal especially for keeeping warm. Thanks for joining in and sending your favourites. We read that making graphs is more fun than biscuits, maybe it is! I am doing a pie graph now! Polar Animal Results

The Polar Expedition

Last Friday we pretended we were going to the Poles! We got our tickets and packed our bags. We took a first aid kit and a Garmin, hot chocolate, lights, matches, maps, an icepick to break up the ice and a compass and lots of other things. Then we measured how big a penguin is in the Antarctica. An emperor penguin is 4 feet tall! Then we measured a polar bear in the Arctic. It was 8 feet long! Longer than Daddy who is 6 feet tall. We made a life-size polar bear and penguin out of newspaper.

The next thing we did was an experiment with BLUBBER! We put a bag on our fingers and mummy coated it in butter! Then we put another bag on top. We left our other fingers bare. Then we put both fingers in a bowl of ice. The finger without the blubber got too cold! Polar animals have lots of blubber to keep them warm. We had to find good materials for insulating and test them with ice cubes in warm water. Sawdust works well. Then we had a polar animal quiz. I got 11/12. Pretty good!



Setting up the Polar scenes with our snow!



 We made arctic scenes. I included the NORTHERN LIGHTS and a polar bear catching a seal in an ice hole. Later on we also made igloos out of styrofoam and a dogsled with Daddy out of wood (that was on Saturday). 

We pretended to harpoon  fish with the broomstick and pretended we were Inuit hunters. Mama Lucy helped us gut the fish. We saw his heart and all his intestines.

Harpooning the fish

Laura came for supper, so we were cooking an Arctic meal. We made some bannock (Inuit bread) It was really nice (but we cooked it on a burner with gas not whale blubber). When Laura arrived we had a snowball fight with cruched up newspaper. We made snow that Mama sent from Canada! And we also played "Finger Pull" (an eskimo game). It was a great day.

Snowball fight with Laura



Making bannock



HOW TO MAKE BANNOCK: Mix together 3 1/2 cups flour, 1tsp salt, 1 tsp baking soda in a big bowl. Add in 1 1/4 cups yogurt or buttermilk or milk and mix to a dough. Put on the table and knead for 5 minutes (taking turns makes it easier!) Make into rolls. Heat oil in a frying pan and add the rolls, cover and reduce heat. After 3 minutes turn rolls over and cook another 3 minutes until golden brown.



Bannock



Fishcakes

HOW TO PLAY FINGERPULL: two people face each other with right toes touching. They hook middle fingers of right hands and try to pull each other off balance.



(Thank you everyone for sending lots of information!

We are sorting the results and will post them next time)

Amisadai's Data Collection: Please Submit Answers!

FOOTWEAR FUN

I am making databases in math and I am collecting data! Please can you help me by giving me some information about your Footwear! You can comment on the blog or facebook or email me at  rachelmonger@gmail.com I will post my results on our blog when I have finished!

Thank you!  Amisadai Monger

Types of Footwear

Welly Boots

Flip-flops     

High heels

Cowboy boots

Runners

Sandals

Crocs

Plimsols

Snow boots

Ice boots

Slippers

Tap shoes

Ballet shoes

Ice skates

Dress shoes

Dressing up shoes

Doodles

Hiking boots

Please answer these questions:

What country do you live in?

Which footwear do you find the easiest and most comfortable to walk in?

Which shoes take longest to do up?  Which shoes are quickest for you to put on?

Which footwear do you like best?

What is your favourite colour for shoes?