Sierra has a had some interesting school events lately. Here they are in random order:
Red Nose Day:
This is a charity day designed by an organization known as Comic Relief. Similar to a breast cancer awareness day where everyone wears pink only here everyone wears red, clown noses, or other charity released shirts. The slogan is "Make your face funny for money." They raised nearly 78 million British Pounds to be given to folks in both the UK and Africa. The kids participated by dressing up, doing funny art projects to make their faces funny, and raising money. Here's more info about the charity if your are interested: Comic Relief website & Red Nose Day
Multiplication March Madness:
The school standards recently changed so that students have to know their multiplication by the end of year 3. To start preparing the kids every grade level assigned a set of multiplication tables for that grade level to memorize during the month of March. Year 1 had to memorize their 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s. On the Friday before break, any child who memorized their list got a certificate and was entered in a drawing. Sierra did a great job and got entered in the drawing. They are doing a great job reviewing at school because she told me multiplication tables were "easy peasy."
The Great Ride On:
The school wanted to promote active, healthy lifestyles so they decided to let all kids ride a bike or scooter to school. I didn't get any pictures, but you can imagine the excitement of 250 kids riding their scooter or bike to school. They had a ball, but it was very chaotic. They apparently got to ride during recess too. The school even organized a bike/scooter parking lot so that no bikes/scooters were stolen or taken. It really worked because even the siblings of school aged children wanted to ride their bikes/scooters to school too.
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