Tuesday 1 April 2008

Visit to Chydenius school 1.4 2008

Emma, Amandine and Ina was visiting an elementary school on the very first april day! At school all the children pulled pranks on the teachers and so did the teachers too. The children where very polite and asked questions for Amandine about france and she told some small things about france for the students, but in the end when Amandine had to tell the same story again and again in the classes it became a bit ”fatigant” for her.

The students were chocked when Amandine told them that in her school there are about 1500 students and that they have school from about 8 to 18.. Antti their teacher told us that the students in chydenius always complain about the long days but maybe they will stop complaining now. The teachers were very polite and some teachers wanted to use their france and spoke with Amandine french, and Emma got to speak a little too. The teachers asked question for us all during the breaks aspecially Emma and Ina because they’ve been there when they were younger.

We got also to pull some pranks on the students, but they didn’t believe us. We told them that their teacher Böise had to go on a meeting and that we have to have a test for the students that will effect their grades about finnish and sweadish ”plante” (växter?).

We had a math lesson with the 6 graders and they spoke with Amandine english, and they
explained some stuff what they’ve been doing in the
weekend and then Amandine got to help them with math and Ina too, but Emma didn’t help at all because Emma is not good at math and it would have been a disaster!

Later on we went with the smallest kids in the school, or should we say pree-school? (förskolan) they sang for us songs, and they sang for Amandine in spannish because Amandine studies spannish, and Amandine was amazed because she couldn’t understand how it’s possible to learn in that age some foreign languages.


(Written by Emma, photos by Ina and Amandine and whole thing by us all!)

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