School Partnerships

This is an exciting year with 5 school partnerships. This means teachers and their classes will share projects with the Urukundo School in Rwanda. I am thrilled to work for a second time with Mt. Nittany Elementary and the Friends School and for the first time with Radio Park, Ferguson and the Nittany Valley Charter School. Today I'm sharing some of the Mt. Nittany projects with other stories to follow as the projects come to me.

MT. NITTANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Two classes, Mrs. California's and Mr. Fritz's, based their projects on the book "Where are you Going Manyoni?", a favorite with the children in Rwanda. It is the story of a little girl and her journey to a place she loves to be. Each page you have to find her in different habitats. Look hard as sometimes she and the animals are camouflaged.

Mrs. California's class drew pictures and wrote short descriptions of how they "actually" go to school and what their journey is like. Most traveled by bus or walked.

Mr. Fritz's class drew pictures and wrote stories to show how they "imagined" they would go to school. They journeyed on a dinosaur, horseback, dirt bike, jet, space station, hoover scooter, and one in a time machine. But he said the circuits were turned off so they didn't time travel.

One more class, Mrs. Hipp's, will write about traveling to school in other countries and describe landmarks and habitats.

In Rwanda they will do similar projects saying how they actually go to school AND have fun imagining new ways to travel to school. This is a great way for teachers and children to share their cultures across the globe! It will be interesting to see what is the same and what is different through their creativity.