I knew our school
semester was over sometime in October, but an exact date was hard to pin
down. The end of term here is full of
activity. First, the last week in
September there was a competition day at our school for several surrounding
schools. The campus was full of students and teachers. The competitions included all subjects and
several students displayed their projects.
I think we had class 2 days that week.
The following week, there was again maybe 2 days of school and
competition moved to the district level.
We all went to a high school in Phonpisai where the students competed
and the teachers judged. At this event,
there were many vendors, clothing, toys, food, sunglasses, and some
performances by students in theater and dance.
Then at one school we
had a learning camp day. The students
were divided into grades 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6.
In each of those groups there were 5 smaller groups, so 10 all
together. The groups rotated through
several “classes” which were mostly fun.
We taught body parts in English and had different activities for the
younger and older kids. There were then
2 days where the students were tested in all their subjects. On the first
Friday in October, all the teachers from Ban Serm school went to Nongkhai for a
closing the term dinner. Three teachers
were given awards and one new teacher was welcomed to the school. We had a big meal and sang Karaoke. Finally, on Monday grades K, 1, 2, and 3 went
on a field trip to a dinosaur display in Udon and we visited 2 temples in 4
large tour buses. The dinosaur in Udon
was made in Japan for 2,000,000 baht. It
was fabulous, lots of roaring and movement.
Some of the kinder kids were scared, but mostly they all loved it.
Teachers will work this
week getting grades posted and performing their other various jobs at school. Then we are off until Nov. 1st.
body parts activity
LOTS of Buddhas at one Wat
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