Tongue twisters vidoes

Reasons why we liked Rafiki Link!!!

These students have been Rafiki link members and as we are winding up the year they are also graduating from standard 8 below are videos giving highlights of what they have liked about Rafiki link.

Enjoy!!!

Americana Food

Hey pepoles up in Kenya!!! This is the kinda food we have here in the United States of Amarica!:) What kinda food do you guys have?
Ya'll should send us some pictures of the kinda food ya'll guys eat over there in Kenya! Adios(See ya:))

Kayla

Questions?

What are your names? Our names are Yulissa, Makayla, Alexis, Claudia and Salma. Yulissa and Claudia are in 7th grade. Makayla and Salma are in 8th grade. Alexis is in 6th. What grades are you guys in?

Martin Middle - Chalk for Peace

Here is some of the art work we did in front of our school. I hope you like it! What do you guys think? The picture at the top is Alexis writing in the blog. She'll be contacting you guys with this blog. I miss you all and hope all is well! Keep in touch.... Sam Lee

Go CTC's Soccer Team!!

KENYA WEEK is coming to Albion Heights the week of November 15 - 18! We're looking forward to learning more about Kenya!

Hello from Ausitn!!

Hey everyone! What we just did was do the CHALK FOR PEACE!!! It is so Amazing we'll be sending you the pictures very soon. A couple of kids from Martin [three kids] helped us finish it up so me and Yulissa could come and type up this blog.Alexis and I had help from our good friends Mark and Diana. Mark was in the library reading a book and Diana was just coming out because she was in a giving mood. TYPE to y'all later!:D





Alexis Seaborn and Yulissa Muro

Chalk for Peace Toronto

Some students from Ms. Hayhoe's class at Albion Heights participated in Chalk for Peace.

This is Martin Middle School

Hi we're so excited to be talking to yall. Good job on yall's video because..... I LIKE YOUR HAT!!!
You guys are really Awesome!:)
I hope that you guys are doing good because we are!

News update

Hi this is the eighth grade student council. It was so nice to hear from you! The weather here is getting colder. This Friday is our first school dance of the year. We are all so excited! Halloween is just around the corner, and we are all preparing our costumes. Do you celebrate Halloween in Kenya? Some seventh graders are dressing up as pop stars in a band that they made up. Our class is going on a field trip tomorrow to a nature museum to study ecosystems. In social studies, we are going to start watching Roots. Until next week!

Hello from Martin Middle School!

Hi everybody. I'm looking forward to connecting with everyone again! I hope everyone is doing well and can't wait for my students to meet and connect with everyone at Ngeya.

RAFIKI DAY

On that day,we had alot of fun.The ceremony was held at MaaiMahiu secondary school.We met with other students whom we had never met with before.We interacted and learnt songs and so on.At lunch we took a delicious meal.It will be a day to recall. Ngeya students.

Chalk For Peace Pictures

Here are some photographs from our Chalk For Peace day.

Hi,
This is the 8th Grade Student Council at Bannockburn School! We will be blogging you over the course of this year! We are very excited to find out more about you and your school. There are four of us, Ari, Alex Jenn and, Sarah. Ari and, Alex have been here at this school for nine years. Jenn has been here for eight, and Sarah has been here for five. There are currently twenty-one students in our class, but as of next week there will be 22.
Peace Be With You! Hope you enjoy our Chalk for Peace photographs!

Bannockburn

CHALK FOR PEACE PHOTOS.

Chalk for peace video

ENVIRONMENT CLUB

In our friendly club environment ,they plant various crops. Examples are kales,cabbages,onions and spinach.They also help in cleaning our school compound. Also hey make our school compound look neat by planting trees and digging the school garden.We are proud of our school environment club.

Greetings from Bannockburn School!

We're excited to get to know you!

Here's a little bit about who we are...

Bannockburn School District 106 was established in 1930 in Lake County, Illinois. The District boundaries take in the Village of Bannockburn including Trinity International University, the easternmost section of Riverwoods, Del Mar Woods, unincorporated areas of West Deerfield and Vernon Townships, and the western edge of Highland Park. Although the District is small in size, it educates a diverse student population.

Today, Bannockburn School houses less than 200 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Our students typically achieve top statewide scores on all measures. In addition to customary regular and special education programs, the school provides the following enhancements:

• Foreign language instruction to students from kindergarten through eighth grade
• Algebra for most students during their eighth grade year
• Science taught in a laboratory setting beginning in the first grade
• Students use a variety of technological tools in their studies across curricular areas. The ration of students to computers is approximately 1:1.

Students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of extra curricular activities. We offer band, orchestra, choir, interscholastic boys' and girls' basketball and volleyball, a professionally directed school play, and a variety of after-school enrichment activities.

We are the 6th, 7th and 8th graders of Bannockburn School!

School opens for a new term

Students here are very happy getting back to school after a one month holiday especially when it comes to Rafiki link activities where they have opportunity to use computers unlike at home where they completely don't use computers simply because its difficult to afford them for home use.
Its very interesting and encouraging that the students were able to check out the new changes that have been made to their blog and they were very happy to see that their partner school's blog has been merged to theirs and they can now be able to share their ideas on the same page.

Rafiki link patron is also very happy to receive a digital camera that will be used for Rafiki activities in the school and good news that Rafiki link will offer an opportunity to her to attend internet classes, this is a very good start for Rafiki link this term.

New look - and newsletter from Ngeya Primary School

Welcome to the re-designed Ngeya Primary blog! We hope you enjoy our 'new look' and the new features we will be adding over the next few months. We want to create friendships and connections - a community - with students and groups at Ngeya Primary School. therefore, from now on Ngeya blog posts and the posts of partners will be put together onto this Ngeya Primary School blog.

We'd also excited to share with you a newsletter, made by the students of Ngeya Primary School in Maai Mahiu. This newsletter was made without the benefit of electricity; students cooperated to share 2 laptops, brought in by Rafiki Link staff Paul Mwaniki and used twice per week until the batteries ran out. Congratulations to the students of Ngeya Primary School on finishing this newsletter - we hope you enjoy reading it.

Ngeya Newsletter 2010

Some pictures from Fun Day

Calvin, former student at Albion Heights, does a dance for us at the Talent Show.

Primary dancers at the Talent Show.

Anna, Kashayla and friends sing at the Talent Show

OUR ENVIRONMENT CLUB.

The environment club in our school has been a successful club. This club has many activities in the school. We have been making our school compound look neat by planting trees.We have a garden where we grow crops like cabbages, kale and onions.

The Rafiki Link Club

In our club rafiki link we do many things. We meet on mondays and thursdays. It has many advantages for example, we learn how to use computer which we did not know earlier. Sometimes we learn how to browse, post pictures and how to transfer photos from camera to computer. We thank our teacher mr mwaniki for his good work of teaching us computer.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Dear friends at Negya Primary School,

At Albion Heights we have had a lot of fun and exiting things happening. There was the Talent Show that was called So You Think You Got Talent? It was very fun and amazing because it was well organized and a lot of amazing students sang, danced and played musical instruments for an audience of family and friends. The best part was that all the talent acts were original. The people who took part in the talent show were from Albion Heights school, past graduates and teachers. The Talent show was a total success.
Next we would like to tell you about our Track and Field Day. Track and Field Day is a competition for the entire school. It was very tiring for some people but the people that really put their best effort and won their events went to York University to compete against other schools from the city of Toronto. It was a blast. 2 students from Albion Heights Junior Middle School even made it to the city semi finals, with will be on June 11. Now let’s see if they can make our school proud!
Did you know we also had a chess tournament? It was OK because we lost our trophy to Smithfield Middle School. We came in second to Highfield Junior School. The students that participated were in grades 4, 5 and 6. When the students came back from their tournament they were excited and disappointed at the same time because they lost but they had a great experience.
Now we would like to tell you about our schools girl soccer team. Unfortunately the girls lost to Karen Kain Middle School. They lost 3 to 0. The MVP of the soccer team was Navreet in grade 7. The captain was Kieu Tran. But they did try their best and they had a good time.
The next big event is our Fun Day, which is being organized by the Future Leaders Club. It will benefit Ngeya Primary School. Students will get to come to the gym during the school day and play some fun activities with their friends.
It has been a busy May and June here at Albion Heights. It is hard to believe that the school year is almost over. We are finished on June 29th. All of us in the Future Leaders Club wish you a great summer holiday.

Brittany and Ruby

2010-04-06
Dear friend at Ngeya school,
My name is Jevon. I have a baby brother. I have two sisters. I am a boy.
Ngay school do you have a sisters or brother?
I like to go home in the bus. I like to go outside.
I like to play games. I like to drive in go-carts.
My parents are Jamaican. I like to go home in the bus.
From,
Jevon

Tuesday April 6, 2010

Dear friend at Ngeya school

I have a big sister. She is 21 years old. I have a mom and dad and a dog. We have lots of fun. I have 12 cousins and 20 uncles and ants I am from Florida that is in America.


My family is from Florida. It is lots of fun to go there because you can go surfing, swimming and collecting shells. I go to church every Sunday with my family. My family celebrates Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving.


My school is called Albion Heights JMS and I like to build Lego with my friends. I like to play football. I am in grade 5. I like to do math because I like to count number.


I like to play Xbox at home and once a month my friend and I go fishing.


From

Nayeem,

Mar.24.2010
Dear friend at Ngeya School,
My name is Matthew. I have a family. I have one brother, a mom and a dad. They are my family. My mom likes to be pretty. My brother is awesome. My family was born in Guyana. I was born in Canada.
I like to play on the computer and I like to play Lego. My favorite game on the computer is John Cena Goes for the Goal. John Cena has to get the world heave weight championship. John Cena is a wrestler. I like to play Bakugan. I like to watch Bakugan and Pokemon on TV. Bakugan is a game where you throw and battle creatures. If you find a talking Bakugan you are awesome.
From,
Matthew.

Dear friend at Ngeya school,

My name is Amanda . I am going to talk about my family. I have two brothers
And no sisters . I am the only one in my family . I have more girl cousins in my family.
I am going to tell you about my culture. I am from Guyana where its very hot there and they like to play cricket and soccer most of my family members are from Guyana.
I am going to tell you about what I like about school.What I like about school is home-time because at home time it is quite at my house. And I also like about school is that my friends and me laugh a lot and talk a lot.
I am going to tell you about my favourite thing to do I love to take photos which is pictures anywhere or anytime I could take pictures in the spring time. And when I am outside and I don’t have a camera with me I take pictures in my head


Sincerely:
Amanda =)

Friday March 26, 2010

Dear friends in Ngeya,

My mom is from St .Lucia and my dad is from Jamaica. My sister’s names are Cynthia, Cassandra and Michelle. My cats name is Chocolate. He is only four months old.
I like science because there are lots of cool things about science. I like gym because there’s soccer and basketball. I like to play my Xbox360 and I like play with my friends.
Peace out,
Aaron

hi

Letter from Nayeem

Tuesday April 6, 2010

Dear friend at Ngeya school

I have a big sister. She is 21 years old. I have a mom and dad and a dog. We have lots of fun. I have 12 cousins and 20 uncles and ants I am from Florida that is in America.


My family is from Florida. It is lots of fun to go there because you can go surfing, swimming and collecting shells. I go to church every Sunday with my family. My family celebrates Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving.


My school is called Albion Heights JMS and I like to build Lego with my friends. I like to play football. I am in grade 5. I like to do math because I like to count number.


I like to play Xbox at home and once a month my friend and I go fishing.


From

Nayeem,

The Olympics are coming to Canada!

We are excited that the 2010 Olympic Winter Games are coming to Canada this year! Our school has been learning about the significance of the Olympic Torch, and eagerly awaiting the start of the games in one week.

We are especially interested in the games because one of the teachers at our school is a former Olympic athlete and a silver medal winner! Her name is Ms. McCormack and she teaches grade 8 and physical education. (That's her picture above) Here is her biography:

Forward Kathy McCormack did not play ice hockey for the first eight years of her life, and she spent the next eight playing on boys’ teams. She made her first appearance on a female team in 1991 at the Canada Winter Games representing New Brunswick, and later won a silver medal at the 1995 Canadian Championships and a bronze one at the 1996 edition with the squad. She joined the Maritimes Sports Blades club in 1996 and then qualified for the Canadian national team the following year. Her efforts earned her a trip to the 1998 Winter Olympics, where she suited up for six matches and took home a silver medal in the first official Olympic women’s ice hockey tournament. In 1999 she moved to Oakville, Ontario to skate with the Oakville Ice of the National Women’s Hockey League, but soon took up a job as a grade school teacher and retired from active play. As of 2009 she is a teacher at Albion Heights Junior Middle School in Toronto, Ontario. She carried the Olympic torch through her hometown of Blackville, New Brunswick in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.