Monday 21 November 2011

Parade Of Nations At ISU

 The world art work by the children

Last week saw ISU, the school Paige attends have their International Week. 
One of the activities was the "Parade of Nations". Where each child takes part in the school parade in their country section. There are currently children from thirty three countries that attend ISU so the children and teachers all took part wearing national costumes and countries not having a national costume the children wore what they thought would be considered clothing from their country.
As each country's name was called the children and teachers from that country entered up onto the stage and part of the national anthems where played. Australia was the first country to be called and Paige held one of the Australian flags.
It was great to see all the children and teachers taking part and the idea behind this activity is to give the children a sense of pride in one's own nationality and culture and promote the children to engage in curiosity in other cultures.

Some of Paige's work

Paige and Benjamin, class friends
Children from the different world groups





Teacher and child from the Netherlands

One of the teachers from New Zealand


The children from Australia up on stage


The children from Mongolia

Monday 7 November 2011

Halloween In Mongolia


Each year depending on where we are Paige likes to celebrate Halloween. This year I decided to arrange with some of the other mums and a couple of my friends in the housing complex to do trick or treating with the kids.
In total there where seven houses/apartment we visited and with the weather below zero you could say our visits where very short.
The children had a wonderful time a couple had never done trick or treating before and enjoyed getting all their sweets.

 Paige decided she wanted to be a dead Cheer Leader

 The group of children
The children waiting for the door to open