Learning the fun way!

This first half school year has gone by so quickly.
And who would have thought that we would get many new friends and learn SO much about a place which is on the other side of the globe?

The project with Iolani School has given our students an opportunity to learn in a natural way. The best part is that students who have been a little reserved and have struggled a bit at school, have flourished and really got to show their abilities. And as Amy mentioned earlier, they do not think that they are in a learning process. They have been practiced in communicating in English, marvel and ask questions, answer questions about and be aware of their own culture, convert units (miles, feet, cup, oz etc.) and learned history.

On our first Skype meeting we received first-hand information about the US election. Iolani was also surprised that there was so much in Norwegian media about their election!

December 8th, we had our second Skype meeting. 30 students at Damsgård returned to school in the evening to meet our friends in Hawaii. In advance we had talked a little about what happened in Pearl Harbor Dec 7th 75 years ago. Some of the students at Iolani told us about how some of their grandparents experienced this day. Amy also send me some pictures from the ceremony held. I think that when our students are going to learn about WW2 in junior High School, they actually know where Pearl Harbor is and has a completely different condition for learning.

There was great excitement when the second package from Iolani School arrived. 

Brochures about Hawaii andinformation about Iolani School has been used to make billboards. They even asked if they had to write in 

Norwegian or if they could make them in English! 

We also received several calendars with beautiful pictures and information about Hawaii. They will be used in the new year, both for English practice and in math lessons. And the candy made great siccess, of course. And Håkon had been at the hospital taken X -ray - he was healthy!

Iolani School has got its own SMART amp stickers and with one for each of my students, they were inspired to create their own. They used ARt&Craft lessons to do this. And today they were sent to SMART. They are so excited about who gets their drawing on a sticker.

For Christmas we have created a ws in amp so that we can share pictures about how Christmas is celebrated in Hawaii and Norway.