Yester learns the Finnish dance, "Lintu-Lensi."
We have been learning a Finnish dance called Lintu-Lensi. Here is a video of it!
Thursday 29 November 2007
Friday 23 November 2007
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the children in both Kuvansi and Gifford!
Mr Ikonen and Mr Purves are both proud of you.
Keep up the good work!
Onnittelut lapsille Kuvansissa ja Giffordissa!
Herra Ikonen ja Herra Purves ovat molemmat ylpeitä teistä.
Jatkakaa samaan malliin!
Our Weekly Timetable- Friday AM, by Dekker and Brockville.
We're Talking Partners at the moment.
We start at 8.45am.
We do spelling for 15 minutes.
Then we go to Maths.
At 10.15am it's break time.
At 10.35am we do Golden Time on a Friday.
For Golden Time, we go to various classes to do different activities. Some of us have been learning how to make our own blogs with Mr Purves, some of us have been learning how to put images and photographs on T-shirts, and some of us go outside to do a Treasure Hunt.
If we have not been good during the week, we lose some of our Golden Time. Luckily, we don't lose our Golden Time often!
We finish school at 12noon on a Friday. What time do you finish school on Friday?
Thursday 22 November 2007
Our Weekly Timetable- Thursday PM, by Salmon and Sunrise.
We are Talking Partners at the moment.
1.15pm Afternoon lessons start.
1.15pm-2.00pm We did some language work for one hour, which was finishing our storywriting from yesterday, finishing our books that we were writing earlier in the week or finishing our handwriting tasks from earlier in the week.
At 2pm we quickly changed and went back to the gym, to film the dance we did this morning again.
Then we went to the Book Fair, to buy books we had ordered on Tuesday.
At 2.30pm, we did some work on Finland. A few weeks ago we all wrote letters to the Finnish Tourist Board in London, asking them to send us any information they could. They sent lots of brochures! Today we read through them and made notes about interesting articles we had read.
From 3.05pm until 3.15pm we played a game called Heads down, Thumbs up. Have you heard of it?
Our Weekly Timetable- Thursday AM, by Fearless and Thistle.
Fearless and Thistle, who are Talking Partners.
We started at 8.45am as usual.
We did some finishing off of work from earlier in the week until 9.00am, then we went off to our Maths classes.
After break, at 10.30am, we did Whole Class Reading. We all looked at a text and answered questions about it.
At 11.25am we got changed for gym. Each Thursday we have gym with our gym teacher, Mrs Jones. Today, we learned two Finnish dances, called Lintu-Lensi and Rankankallio. Mr Purves made a video of one of the dances. We hope to put it onto the blog shortly!
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Our Weekly Timetable- Wednesday PM, by Jigga and Ibrox.
Current Talking Partners, Jigga and Ibrox.
We start at 1.15pm, when we do spelling for 15 minutes.
Today, we did art from 1.30pm till 2.45pm. We are making some Christmas decorations that we will send to you in Kuvansi once we have finished them!
From 2.45pm until 3.15pm we had a session called "Circle Time". This is when we talk about any problems anyone is having, and try to fix them.
At 3.15pm, it's home time.
Our Weekly Timetable- Wednesday AM, by Harebell and Oatcake.
Talking Partners, Harebell and Oatcake.
8.45am-After registration we usually do P.S.D work.
P.S.D means Personal and Social Development.
We work from this book.
At 9.30am we do problem solving. Click on the picture below to see today's problem.
At 10.15am it is our break time.
At 10.30am we prepare for writing, discussing what we will do this week.
We go to Music from 11.00am until 11.45am with our music teacher.
After music we come back to our class and complete our writing task.
Lunch is at 12.30pm.
Tuesday 20 November 2007
Our Weekly Timetable- Tuesday afternoon, by Graphite and Easter Road
Easter Road and Graphite, current Talking Partners.
We are Talking Partners at the moment.
On Tuesdays, we do spelling from 1.15pm- 1.30pm.
Then we do handwriting. We are all trying to make our writing look better!
Sometimes we have time to do some work project work, but today we didn't have time to do that.
From 2.15pm- 3.15pm we do gym in the school hall, or outside if the weather is nice.
Today, we went outside to do some races,as you can see from the photos!
This was the warm-up!
We had a lot of fun, as some of the races were silly races, where we hopped, or skipped!
Jigga, jumping. Or is she hopping?
At 3.15pm school finishes and we go home.
Our Weekly Timetable-Tuesday morning, by Nevis, Sloop and Crofter.
Talking Partners, Nevis, Sloop and Crofter in the library, at the Book Fair.
On a Tuesday morning our timetable looks like this:
8.45am- We come in to class and work silently.
9.00am- Maths in our sets.
10.15- 10.30am Break time outside.
10.30-11.30am Language work. Today we have done a little test of all the grammar we have learned so far this year.
11.30-12.30pm This is when we have the iBook laptops. We have been working on the blog, writing to you!
This morning we also went to a special Book Fair, in the school library, where we can choose to buy a book from a big selection of new books. Our picture was taken there.
Monday 19 November 2007
Our Weekly Timetable- Monday afternoon, by Bannock and Blackwatch.
Blackwatch and Bannock, working as Talking Partners.
We are Talking Partners at the moment. We pick new Talking Partners every two weeks.
After lunch, we start back in class at 1.15pm. We do spelling work for 15 minutes to start with. Mr Purves gives us different activities to do each day, to help us learn our spelling words.
After spelling today the whole class did a listening exercise. We had to listen carefully to 10 statements read to us, then do what each statement asked us to do.
Often on a Monday afternoon, we do project work. We did a project about Electricity earlier in the year, which was good. Today, we have been researching things about Finland.We have also been designing our own "comic strip" stories about the school play we performed last week.
We finish school at 3.15pm. What time do you finish school each day in Kuvansi?
Our Weekly Timetable- Monday morning, by High5 and Osprey
High5 and Osprey, working together as Talking Partners.
We are Talking Partners. We use Talking Partners for discussing things as we do our lessons.
We start school at 8.45am each day. When we come in, we have 15 minutes to work silently while Mr Purves checks we are all here, collects notes from parents and gives out any letters.
Then, at 9.00am, we go to Maths. We work in different groups for Maths and go to different classes in the school. Today, we worked on money problems. 
We are working on problems about money from this textbook.
At 10.15am we have our morning break, for 15 minutes.
At 10.30am all the school goes to the school hall for assembly. Here, we all sing songs, discuss news, and some people receive certificates or awards for good work they have done.
After assembly, back in class, we do language work. We are writing our own story books for younger children at the moment. Then, we do drama for 45 minutes before going to lunch at 12.30pm
Tuesday 13 November 2007
Playing in the snow
Playing in the snow
Playing in the snow
Now we have little snow on the ground here in Kuvansi.
These girls are making a snowhorse because they are fond of horses.
Thursday 8 November 2007
Enjoying lunch with our special visitor...
As well as having a special lunch, we also had a special visitor. Nick Morgan, who works for Learning and Teaching Scotland, (LTS) came all the way from Glasgow to see what we have been doing with International Education, and to sample our Finnish meals. Like so many of the children, Mr Morgan commented that the Pea Soup was excellent! Mr Morgan is here with Jigga, Sunrise, Topcat, Easter Road, Osprey and Dekker.
In the comments section, you can see comments from many of the children (and teachers) who tried the Finnish school lunches.
The Main Courses...
We had two choices for main course. You could choose fried fish, with boiled potatoes and salad, or macaroni pasta with grated carrots and rye bread. Both were very tasty!
Pea Soup and Pancake...
The Pea Soup proved so popular that it sold out very quickly! And no wonder, as it was absolutely delicious!
Informing the children...
As the children approached the kitchen, our sign let them know that they would be eating the same things they had seen on Mr Purves' class' blog.
Yester's Finnish lunch!
Our Finnish lunch was highly successful! The school cook made green pea soup, fried fish with boiled potatoes and grated carrots, pasta with rye bread, pancakes with strawberry sauce and all the children tried lingonberry juice with their meals.
A message from us all....
Everyone in our class, and indeed the school, would like to say how sad we were to hear the terrible news from Tuusula yesterday. We all send you our sympathies. A similar thing happened in a Scottish school 12 years ago, which shocked everyone here. We are thinking of you.
Mr Purves
Wednesday 7 November 2007
Winter is coming
Tuesday 6 November 2007
The interesting booklet
Pikku Ukkeli ( a little guy in English) started to read at the drop of a hat. And tomorrow we'll continue reading during English lesson. The text in the booklet is very good for us, it's from real life. In that way we get to know many things about your country.
Happy pupils
The parcel from Scotland
Michael Purves told he had sent a parcel to Kuvansi. We waited and waited and the parcel was sent to Canada. But at last we got it. Here is the photo of the parcel.
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