Rolling Castle Travels: Presentation day for Catlin's grade 4 class

Spent the morning finishing the two DVD’s for Caitlin’s class, we were asked to be at the school by 2:00 pm and the presentation would fill in sometime after the students had returned from swimming, doing the chores needed for last day of clean up. Burning the second DVD became a challenge, for some reason the program I use was not performing properly, I barely finished burning it before we had to leave. We met Chris and Michelle in the classroom (Chris volunteered as a chaperone on the swimming field trip) and Michelle had arrived the same time as we had. After the students settled in the classroom the teachers handed out sheets to each student, the papers had dollar amounts (earned points for the pretend dollars) and then she showed them many items that they could purchase with the points/dollars they had earned. Excitement was high as the students choose with care the items they wanted and could afford with their earned dollar amount.

After that excitement, the students cleaned out their lockers, scrubbed them down, and made sure their desks were empty, packing everything in their backpacks.

Caitlin making sure her locker is cleared out.

Caitlin has a sticker on her forehead, one of the students was going around placing stickers on classmates and even shared with Chris, Michelle, Woody and myself. She stuck an African flag sticker on Woody, just so cool eh! The stickers were part of her purchase with the earned dollars she earned througout the year.

The time had come then for the African presentation after which the children asked many intelligent questions, which Woody answered willingly. One of the students asked how long it took for the flight to Africa and showed surprised by Woody’s answer, Woody grabbed a world globe that was close by and showed them the flight path he had travelled, student commented, “wow, sure couldn’t go there for a weekend”, then commented, “that is halfway around the world so it would take twice as long to go all the way around the world”, good thinking I thought. The kids were interested in the distance Woody was from the animals he photographed, what some animals ate, how tall they were, etc.

Overall, we enjoyed being there and the kids were great! The time passed rapidly, the teachers opened the many gifts from their students, we managed to capture a few pictures and then bade farewell to all.

Caitlin's homeroom teacher reading the card that Caitlin had prepared for her, standing beside Caitlin is her classmate that had shared her stickers with us.