Start of week 7, week 6 summary

Ok this is going to be one of those lame catch up posts because I am totally behind.

During week 6 two very cool things stand out in my mind as worth mentioning. The first is that Semu killed a snake in the hen house at school. We are not sure at this point if it was a Black Mamba or a Cobra but we do know it was a very big snake and it ate 6 chicks.

Sorry couldn't rotate.

Yup, a chick from inside the snake.

The other item worth mention is the time spent with my class this week because we had an especially productive week. One of the teachers (who I will not mention) had decided that P6 is too slow for him and as punishment he would not teach them for two weeks. (On a side note this person is the exception, not the rule. Most of the teachers are impressive educators that I am honored to serve with. This type of behavior is being handled by Enoch and King James so I will not comment further). This gave me even more time to have my class all to myself. For English we began to work on our response letters to my class in Wisconsin. The Ugandan students loved reading the letters and we spent our entire first lesson answering questions they had about what the American students had written. For example: What is/are a Lexus, Wii, bacon, recess, waffles, Poptarts, Converse All Stars, chicken patty, AACE, ect. It was a lot of fun and a good learning experience. They continued by learning time-line format, making drafts, and then the final copy complete with pictures. I'm very proud of the work they have done. I should mention that I am also proud of their progress in math seeing as we completed an entire unit in that one week.

When we had about 20 minutes of free time at the end of a period one day I made up a little activity to keep us motivated to work hard in school. I will let the pictures (students) speak for themselves. I can't include the whole class but here are a few.