Hi Ngeya students,

Our school has a fun new project and we would love you to be a part of it.  The whole school is going to work on a math problem together. Every month our school will have a different problem.

For December, we have a problem about proportional reasoning.  Of course, it will be simplified a bit for the younger students, but we thought you'd find the harder version of the problem a fun challenge.  The problem originally involved turkey because it is almost Christmas and it is very traditional to eat turkey at Christmas in Canada.  However, we've changed it to lamb to make it more appropriate to Kenya.

Here's what we'd like you to do:  1) work on the problem together on a chalkboard.  2) solve the problem on the chalkboard, showing all your work   3) Take a digital picture of your solution  4) post the picture of your solution, maybe with a written explanation of how you solved it, on the blog

We will take some pictures of some of the solutions that Albion Students came up with and post them on the blog.

We hope you enjoy this challenge and we look forward to seeing your solutions.

Albion Heights

DECEMBER PROBLEM OF THE MONTH:

The chef at a hotel is cooking a Christmas dinner for the guests.  He wants to roast a lamb in the large hotel oven.  The lamb weighs 19.75 kilograms.  It takes 20 minutes to cook 500g of this lamb.  Based on this information, how many minutes does it take to cook the whole lamb?

    

Hi Ngeya Rafiki Link Club,

In the last two weeks we have celebrated Halloween and Remembrance Day.  On October 31, we celebrate Halloween by dressing up in costumes and going to different houses asking for candy.  When we say; "Trick or Treat!"  the people in the house should give us candy.  We also carve faces into pumpkins and light candles inside of them.  Then we display these pumpkins outside our houses when it is night.  Halloween is a lot of fun for kids.

On November 11, we celebrated Remembrance Day.  That is a day when we remember the Canadian soldiers who have fought and died in wars around the world.  It is also a day to think about peace and how we can work to have more peace in our world, and less war.  Everyone wears red poppy flowers.  We had a special assembly where some classes presented songs and poems.  Each class also created wreaths to commemorate the soldiers.

Now that it is November, it is dark and cold here in Toronto.  It starts to get dark at 5:00pm now, and doesn't get light until 8:00am in the morning.  It has not snowed yet, but it is cold.  Today's high was 7 degrees Celsius. What is the weather like in Maai Mahiu?

Our school dance is happening next week.  We're looking forward to posting and telling you about it.

Albion Heights Junior Middle School

what's up our friends

we would  like to  say  hi to our  partner  schools  in  America. we would  like  to   have a debate   soon and  we will be happy. we  hope that  one day you  will come to our country Kenya and  experience our climate  together  with a variety  of  our  wild  animals.

Hello to our partner schools

Its been great connecting with you and we hope that this partnership will continue.
We are aware that you will soon be closing for long break. Schools in Kenya close by the end of July and open early September for our final term.
We shall be sending a video soon before we close so be on the look out.
It is so exciting because one of the Rafiki Link teachers madam Anita Hayhoe will be visiting us on July 14th and we cant wait to hear from her about Albion Heights in Toronto.
Keep posted to know how the visit was.

We love you all.
From: Ngeya Primary Rafiki Students

Rafiki Link Debate - LIVE on Skype!

Students at Bannockburn School and Ngeya Primary School made history this month. They've engaged in the first successful LIVE Skype debates between North America and Kenya. The debate topic was:

"The United States of America will take a position of global neutrality

in all conflict not directly involving America."

 

Bannockburn students presented arguments PRO and CON this bill, with Ngeya Primary students asking questions via Skype.

Stay tuned for highlights from the next debate!

Introduction to Kenya, by Kenyan students

Ngeya Primary School students have created their first ever PowerPoint presentation. Check it out!
NGEYA PRIMARY POWERPOINT

Albion Heights Video

The students in the Future Leaders' Club have created a video all about our school. We worked with Mr. Pak to make this video, using a digital camera. We hope you enjoy it, learn about our school and maybe even make a video of your own to share!

Albion Heights video

Going on with Rafiki

Rafiki is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to us here at Ngeya.
Last week we had an amazing skype debate with Bannockburn discussing on Global neutrality.
Bannockburn was presenting their speeches while we were asking some questions.

Through this motion we learnt much about the pros and cons if US became globally neutral.and for the first time we were able to see our friends through skype video. We also saw snow(quite amazing) because our area is very dusty and windy.

Thank you David and Sine for the presentations(we hope we have the names right). It was nice meeting you all.Lets keep Rafiki going.

 that's us right there before the skype debate with Miss Martha




 and here we are again with  Miss Rebecca!

Long story about us this tuesday!

THE POST OF THE WEEK WITH MARTIN MIDDLE SCHOOL WITH YOUR HOST MR.LEE AND COSTARS MAKAYLA SEABORN, SALMA HERNANDEZ,CLAUDIA DELA FUENTE,YULISSA MURO,AND ALEXIS SEABORN! let me get to the basics with the club. Right now Mr.lee is crating a warm up for his 1st period class.Salma is creating a bracelet for the fundraiser for you guys because we are gonna send you guys stuff for your school which is in Ngeya Primary School in Kenya which is in Maai Mahiu. Claudia is doing making a power point for us to send to you guys and she is taking pictures so you guys can see what we look like.Makayla is also making bracelets for you guys.Yulissa is too. To make it all simple Makayla,yulissa, and Salma are making bracelets. Claudia is making a power point for you guys and I'm posting a blog so you guys get it.Sorry this is so long,but now the longness ends I'm Alexis Seaborn singing off Bye!

Rafiki Link in Kenya..introductory videos!

Rafiki link in Kenya has started again and we have new students from Ngeya Primary.

Below are their introductory videos hoping that you will enjoy.

 

We're back

Hey we've been back for 3 weeks and this is our first time back together as Rafiki and we are having a nice time so far. Hope you post soon Claudia, Makayla, Salma say hi

Snow in Chicago!

Hello!

We are very sorry that we have not blogged for a while. We have been really busy this new year. Happy New Years! In school we are having a Valentines Day celebration. Valentines day is a day full of love where people give each other notes that tell them you care about them. Right now there is snow on the ground and it is very cold. Our seasons are opposite of yours, so you are probably experiencing very hot weather. We will blog again soon!

-Bannockburn School 8th grade Student Council