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from W. Alonzo Locke Elementary School, Memphis, Tenessee, USA
Our School Day Began At: 7:00 a.m. with breakfast. All 385 children at the school are entitled to a free breakfast. We have breakfast at the school from 7:00 until 7:30 a.m. Today we had cereal, milk, choice of fruit and orange juice. We had assembly/whole school gathering at: February 28 was the last time we all got together as a whole school. On that day we celebrated the end of Black History Month with songs, speeches, poems, tap dancing, flipping (gymnastics), and plays. All of the students at the school are African Americans. Morning School and Afternoon School:
These are new concepts for us. We don't really understand what you mean. We begin our classroom work at 7:30 in the morning. In our room we do spelling, reading, and grammar until 9:00 a.m. We then go to a different special class from 9 until 10 a.m. (Monday we go to the library and learn reference skills and select books to take home, Tuesday is physical education, Wednesday's special is music, Thursday is time in the science lab and on Friday we have art class). From 10:00 until 11:00 we work on science or social studies. We have lunch from 11:00 until 11:30. We all eat lunch at the school and no one is permitted to leave the building.
We go back to our room from 11:30 until 12:30 and study math. At 12:30 we go to computer lab for 1/2 hour. Again these specials are in our building, just in different rooms. At 1:00 we return to our classroom and work on group or independent projects until 2:00. All of the classrooms in our Sumatran family (floor) are studying oceans. We are all working on projects about the oceans. At 2:00 we clean up our room and do our jobs (shut down computers, water plants, clean the boards, feed the pets, etc.) and get ready for dismissal at 2:15 p.m. How far to the nearest park: There is a park one block away from the school but everyone agreed it was not a safe place.
We decided to tell you about the nearest safe park where we would like to play in our free time. The safe park is the Martin Luther King Jr. Park. It is 3 and 1/2 blocks away from the school. How far to the nearest shops: There is a store on the same block called Poor Mans. It is a pawn shop. It would take about a minute to get there. At the end of the block there is Willie Moore's store. You can buy just about anything there, sandwiches, candy, sodas, soap, stamps, or newspapers. It might take three minutes to walk there. If we all walked to school it would take less than 5 minutes for 3 of us between 5 and 10 minutes for 15 of us and over 30 minutes for 2 students and Mrs. Seifert to get to the school. Please send us your complete mailing address so we can send copies of our school work and drawings to you. (We do not have graphics capability on our school e-mail connection so we must rely on snail mail).
Memorial Elementary School, Valparaiso, Indiana, USA
We had a very exciting day on March 12. It was our first time to work on the Internet. We also had a Beanie Babies party to celebrate good behavior in class.
Lebanon Elementary School, Lebanon, CT, USA
Our school day began at 8:45
We didn't have an assembly, but we did have class pictures taken.
We don't have morning and afternoon school. We do take a break
for lunch and recess (during school) from 11:40-12:20.
Our school day ended at 3:20.
It is about 10 minutes to walk to the nearest park. We have a big open space called a "green" in the center of town. There is a walkway all the way around to walk, jog or ride your bike. There is a pond in the middle to ice skate on in the winter. It is about 10 minutes to walk to the nearest store. There is a little store on the green that has things like milk, bread and eggs.
The nearest big supermarket is about 15 minutes away if you drive.
Ascension School, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
I thought you would like to know that our weather was very unusual for us. The weekend following this survey, we had almost 15 inches of rain and had terrible flooding all along the Ohio River. There is still furniture in some areas that needs to be picked up and taken to the dump--damages by dirty, foul water. Several people lost their lives and many literally lost everything they owned--homes, clothing, furniture, cars--everything. The water came up so fast and so unexpected that some had almost no warning at all or they just didn't realize that the water was going to rise as high as it did. All my family was blessed with dry, safe homes. My home did have a little water come in the basement and we were up till 3:30am mopping it up. At that time, it finally quit coming in. I hope you "Our Day" project went well. I'm going to your web sight next to see if you have posted anything yet.
School 147, Chelyabinsk, Russia
Our Day Today-March 12
The day is bright and windy. The temperature is -5 in Celcius in
the morning; +3 in the daytime. The ground is covered with thick
snow It begins to melt.
Our School Day began at 2 o'clock and ended at 7 o'clock
We had 5 lessons each of 40 minutes: English, Physics, Russian,
Algebra, History.
After the second lesson we had a lunch in the school dining-room.
We had Assembly for the 6th and 7th forms pupils after classes.
It was a competition on in modern dancing. Our group had won the
first place.
Almost all of us live near our school.
It takes 21 children 3-5 minutes walking. 4 pupils have to take a
trolley-bus to get school. lt takes them 15-20 minutes.We have a
beautiful Children's Park in 5 minutes walking to play there and
a small garden and a sportgound near our school. There are some
shops near our school-a bakers a grocery in 2-3 minutes walking.