Indian Display
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Adi’s Mum and Dad are from India. They speak English and Bengali. They came to our class to tell us really interesting things aboutIndia…….
....Adi’s Dad had a great presentation to show us. He showed us the Indian flag and map, and told us that it would take us 8 hours to fly to India by aeroplane. He showed us photographs of the Himalayan mountains in the north, the desert in the west, the sea and beaches of the south, and the lovely bay and sea of the east. We saw pictures of peacocks, a tiger, lotus flower, cricket, Taj Mahal, traditional food, clothes, festivals, art and
architecture, travel, and a really interesting piece from an Indian film. It was all so interesting.
Adi’s Mum showed us her everyday clothes, and also how to wear a sari. We were really surprised at how much material is in each sari. We saw Indian jewellery (it was lovely), spices, and home decorations. Adi and his mum and dad showed us how they say their prayers in Bengali, and they also let us try some traditional snacks. They were salty rather than sweet. They were
delicious. Thanks so much to Alok and Tanu for letting us experience India in such an interesting and fun way.
architecture, travel, and a really interesting piece from an Indian film. It was all so interesting.
Adi’s Mum showed us her everyday clothes, and also how to wear a sari. We were really surprised at how much material is in each sari. We saw Indian jewellery (it was lovely), spices, and home decorations. Adi and his mum and dad showed us how they say their prayers in Bengali, and they also let us try some traditional snacks. They were salty rather than sweet. They weredelicious. Thanks so much to Alok and Tanu for letting us experience India in such an interesting and fun way.
The tissue absorbed the water and pulled the marker dye with it. We could see the colours racing, and we could see what colours are made from other colours. We saw purple (red and blue), green (blue and yellow), orange (yellow and red) and brown (red, yellow and blue).
Next we made colour wheels and spun them using toothpicks. Teacher let us spin some with a motor. They spun really well, and made lots of different colours. We discovered that if you make a wheel with the 7 colours of the rainbow on it, that when it spins you can see a white light. Do you know the colours of the rainbow? We do. They are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
We had our Carol Service last night (Wednesday, 17th of December). It was just lovely. The children sang so well, the junior infants looked gorgeous dressed up as people and animals from the Nativity Story and the "Amen" dance at the end was spectacular. Well done to all the children, teachers and parents who put so much time and effort into making the night a really special one.
Jordan’s mum Anita came to tell us all about Germany today. She lived there for 8 years. She brought lots of toys, ornaments and clothes to show us.
She also had a huge beer mug. Anita had a lovely jigsaw of Europe to show us the countries we are hearing about at the moment. We looked at lovely nutcracker dolls, German jellies and all sorts of Easter decorations. We learned some German words too, and saw the map and flag of Germany. It was all so interesting.
Today her mum Joanna came to visit our class to tell us all about Poland.
Joanna showed us the flag of Poland, and she taught us how to say Hello and Goodbye in Polish. She had a lot of lovely pictures of Polish scenery, winter in Poland (snow angels, bonfires, ice sculptures), Christmas in Poland (wafers, food, Santa), Easter in Poland (Easter eggs, baskets, hare hunts), handcrafts, pottery, traditional costumes and dancing, paper cut outs, Knights and Castles. 
Joanna brought sweets and biscuits from Poland, for us to try. They were delicious. A big Thank you to Marta and her mum for such a wonderful presentation, and for telling us so much about Poland. We had a great time, and we learned a lot. Now we all hope to visit
We are busy making the story of 10. 
We use hangers and pegs, beads, magnetic children and blocks, links and hoops and counters to help us. We are getting very good at this activity.
Do you like our fabric and fibre angels and our potato print cards? You might even get one this Christmas.
Hau had a great presentation for us on the whiteboard. She showed us pictures of Vietnamese food, map, flag, clothes, instruments and festivals.
She showed us prawn crackers and let us taste them and she taught us some Vietnamese sayings and numbers. Vietnamese is very hard. Thank you so much Hau.
This time we started with vinegar in the bottle and the bread soda in the balloon. When we held the balloon upright, the bread soda in the balloon fell into the vinegar. The gas that was made blew up the balloon.
