Colin's Class Update

Classroom News January/February 2011
Country of Study: Africa

Projects:
Collected quarters and bought a goat for an African family through Heifer Project
Made African pancakes (Mama Panya's pancakes)
Made Cassava Root pudding (that's tapioca)
Painted an African batik and dyed it (green)
Made African hats
Learned African dance
Made African-Americian Kwanzaa soup
Learned an African cup-passing game (Obwi Sana Sana)
Made African toys with pipe cleaners
Celebrated "Epiphany" (January 6th) by searching for the king
Our Ojibwe pen pals wrote back and we made Valentine's for them
Double Field Trip to Coddingtown library and Lamplighters Senior Center
Made Manoomin (Ojibwe for wild rice)
Made homemade yogurt and ate it with honey

Visitors
Abyssinia (local Ethiopian restaurant) brought a luncheon feast
Asiya's dad came to speak about North African healing

Poems and Songs
Kwanzaa
The King
Moon, Moon
We're Gonna Shine
I like Coffee
Who Was MLK?
We Shall Overcome
Obwi Sana Sana
Sweet Potatoes
Windy Nights
Gilligan's Island
Deep Peace
Monday Potatoes
Raindrops on Roses
Pata Pata
5 W's
I am Very Fond of Bugs
Magic Penny
Under the Bamboo Tree
30 Days Hath September
Raindrops
Rain by R.L. Stevenson
The Saw
Stepping Stones
Double Double
A Sailor Went to Sea

Books
Beatrice's Goat (Uganda)
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti plain
The Magic Tree (Nigeria)
At the Crossroads (South Africa)
A Country Far Away
Catch that Goat
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
We're Going on Safari
The Village of Round and Square Houses
Mama Panya's Pancakes
Honey Honey Lion
African Stories (collection)

Chapter Book
Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

I can't wait to see what's next for March and April....