Summer Learning Journey

Today Megan from the Summer Learning Journey Programme came into Waikowhai Primary to talk to our Year 4, 5 and 6 students about participating in this programme over the summer.
She shared reasons this is a good programme to be part of and the prizes that would be available for top bloggers. Yep its a blogging programme based on activities completed.

We spent the morning looking at one of the topics and activities that were in the Programme in 2016/17, as a practise.
                                               https://sites.google.com/site/summerlearningjourney/welcome 

Day 1 – Choosing a destination
The world is a very big and very cool place. There are currently 196 countries and
approximately 7.1 billion people living on earth. For this project we are going to focus on just
10 countries across 6 continents.... Australia, Canada, Chile, England (United Kingdom), Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa & United Arab Emirates. The first and second activities were to choose a country and give two reasons why. Then find some new information that wasn't on the info they gave us.
                               
As the teacher I choose
Chile  because I love mountains and would like to see the Andes Range.  I would also like the colours the people of this country wear and use, I think. Finally Easter Island is part of Chile and I have always been fascinated by this place and would love to visit.
Then I went onto google to find some interesting facts about Chile.
1).  Chile has the largest swimming pool in the world.
2. It has one of the longest coastlines in the world and the Andes mountains run down the other side of the country. It is long and skinny country with beaches and mountains. Awesome.
3). Chile is home to 5 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Read more: Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Chile https://www.quasarex.com/blog/top-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-chile-facts-about-chile