Westdale Junior School news

On our "Countries around the world" day, everyone did about five different activities to do with different places around the world. Usually we would just have our class teachers all day, but this day gave us an opportunity to work with different teachers. It was lots of fun.

The activities included:

- Story origami - stories were told together with instructions about how to makle a paper fold and, as the story went on the folding and unfolding made different objects linked with the story.

- A lady from Brazil taught us how to do Samba dancing - the Samba comes from Brazil. She told us about different types of Samba and showed us pictures of Brazilian instruments and the sounds they made.

- We did some paper cutting - making puppets to tell and act out a shadow-puppet story involving a dragon.

- Mask making, in which we made and decorated Venitian-style masks using felt-pens, glitter-glue, feathers, sequins, etc.

- Rain forest painting - creating a picture of a rain forest animal using paint, crayon or collage.

Everyone enjoyed the lessons adn we all made something we could take home.