Arrived in Ethiopia

Good morning!  Theo's dad and I arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tuesday morning after a 12 hours flight from Washington DC.  Addis is hilly, beautiful and warm.  There are many big buildings but also small homes made of cement and some made of tin.  Driving to the orphanage Tuesday morning the streets were crowded with people, cars and we even saw a lot of horses and donkeys on the road!  It was so crazy seeing donkeys in the middle of car traffic!!  I will try to get

pictures of the busy streets today.

Highlights of the week for Bianca

I'm showing my expert word.  I wonder what yours is?

Today we had music.  Music was fun.  PE was too.  I can't wait for the celebration for me, Kina, Lily, Cannon, and Twyla.  I hope it is fun.

Expert words sound cool.  My expert word is Kidsco.  These expert words are to teach our partner schools about our school.  Hmmmm.  I'm looking forward to seeing my gramma this weekend.

Early Sunday morning Theo's dad and I travel to first Washington DC and then on to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where we get to meet Theo's little sister Hlina. Tonight Theo helped me pick out the clothes we are taking for Hlina. There is still more to prepare but we are almost ready to go!
I have never been to Ethiopia before but I know the capital is at 8,000 feet and is mountainous. I will send pictures when I can.
Erin

Highlights of the week for An Mei

This is the table of contents for our class book

This is the cover of our class book

I liked PE because we learned soccer.  I liked library because I get to check out books.  I checked out Zoo books.  In social studies, I am writing about some of the famous buildings in Seattle.  I'm writing about the space needle and the Smith Tower.  The chapter in the class book my group is responsible for is the city of Seattle.

Highlights of the week for Caleb

I liked checking out books from the library.  This week in library we sang "Honest Abe".  I'm OK with it.  I liked passing the ball in PE.  In our table group this week, we signed a piece of paper promising to be kind and write at least 1 page of writing.  I am writing about sports.  We are writing an "all about" book to tell the other schools (our partner schools) about what we do at our school.  I feel excited about our Valentine's Day party.  I plan to draw.  I might make paper airplanes.

Questions for American Institute of Monterrey, Summit Schoolof Ahwatukee

To our partner schools - The Summit School of Ahwatukee, Phoenix, Arizona, The American Institute of Monterrey, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico.  From the 2nd grade class at McDonald International.

School - Is your school fun? Do you have a fun school?  What is famous about your school? Do you have fun books at school?  Do you have a library?  What books do you read? What is your playground like? What are your rules? What is your school mascot?  Is your principal a boy or a girl?

Classroom - Do you have white boards?  What is your classroom like?  Which floor is your classroom on?  Are your teachers’ fun? What is your teacher like?  How many teachers do you have?  How many kids do you have in your class?  Do you have class pets?  What are your rules?

Student Life - Do you have fun activities?  Do you have any music?  Are your sports fun?  Do you have physical education?  Do you have art?  What sports do you have?  What kind of thing do you do?  What is the day like?  How many classes do you have?  How many hours do you have of school?  What do you learn?  What math do you learn? Do you blog?

City - What is one of the most famous buildings in your city?  What is a popular building near you? What is the weather like there most of the time? Is it very hot?  What are fun things to do in your city?  What are famous things about your city?

Kids - Do you have lots of friends?  What is your name?  What are some of your favorite holidays?  Do you live in an apartment?  What is your favorite color?  What do you normally do?  What is your favorite animal?  What is your favorite sport?  What is your favorite food? Favorite book? Favorite thing?  What is your favorite thing in class?

Highlights of the week for Hugh

afternoon schedule

Votes for the celebration

my map of our partner schools

I like when we did the maps.  Well, me and Caleb we each blue and red for United State and Mexico because I like the Seahawks and Patriots.  We did the map because we have our partner schools in Mexico and the United States.  I'm also happy we get to have Keiko Sensei in the morning and Ms. Kathleen in the afternoon. I like now that we library in the afternoon and we switch to having library on Wednesday because it gives me more time to look for my books. 

My highlights of the week are music, library, PE.  Me and Caleb have been snowboarding on Sundays and Saturdays and I like snowboarding because it is really really really fun.  Caleb can do mini-man snowboarding.  Mini-man snowboarding is really hard because you have to bend down and turn sideways and do it.  It is really fun to do mini-man snowboarding.  And I can snowboard really well by standing up.