Piglets!

Yesterday was a very exciting day! Lulu gave birth to her piglets. We watched all of them except for the first two being born! We have a video clip of one being born which we will put up on the blog later. There are eight little piggies, they are very cute! I love them so much! But Lulu keeps on stepping on the little piggy. He is tiny and he is the runt. But very, very cute. My two favourite piglets are the runt and a spotty one.

We don’t yet know if they are boys or girls but can you help us think of some good names? Make sure they are piggy-good!

Louisa turns six

I     had a   Lovely   Birthday  in   Dodoma. I went swimming! I  can  swim with  a  noodle  and  without  my  mum.

 I also went in a plane. We could sit in the cockpit of one of the MAF planes!

 I went to a nice café for lunch with Jasmine and Gideon (from Sunseed who we were visiting).

 I found some new friends in Dodoma called Anna and Esther. Anna came to open presents and have cake.

Anna and me playing with my new playmobile



I got some great presents ... some tools, playmobile, clothes and games ...



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 Lulu   just had   piglets!  Amisadai   will   tell you   about   it tomorrow and show you some pictures!   they  are  so  cute!



Snake on a stick and other tales by Louisa

 We  went  on  a game drive.   We  went  in  a  cool  car. It had  no  sids, it  had  no  wingshield.  We  saw  elephants   having  a  mudbath.  (We made a slideshow about the gamepark if you would like to watch it here).

We had one night in Tandala. We  went  in  the  swimming  pool   there. We  saw  a  snake in the  Loug (lounge). The man  killed the   snake   with  a  stick then I  held  the  snake  on  a   stick.   I   held  the   stick   with   the   snake    on   it   then   I  put   it in  the   fiyer.

We   have a  new   car!   You   do not   need   to  push   it. It   has   got   a  beter   hand   breack    and   it  starts   ezley    and   it  has    nice  chairs. 

I   am    going  to   Dodoma on Monday. There is a swimming pool there and I can swim on my birthday!



In the rice fields



Sweeping the house



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