Dear So-Mi,
I hope that you are having a great time in Oman! What is it like there? Tell me about your school and what you would do if you went for a visit home with a student for a night. Have you celebrated any special holidays? What kinds of foods do you eat there? Do you have any good recipes of your favourite foods?
I am having a great time in Canada. Mrs. Tucker’s class is really nice and I have travelled home for a night and I tried some neat things. Each day the students in this class come to school at 8:50 am. The begin each day of school by singing O Canada (their national anthem) and listening to the school announcements. There are a lot of great activities that the students can participate in like choir and sports teams (basketball, volleyball, softball, soccer). After announcements, we practice our reading and writing by going to different centres with our partner while Mrs. Tucker calls small groups of students to read with her. Then it is snack time! We eat for 20 minutes then go outside for 25 minutes to play in the school yard. After recess we work on a writing assignment then we have Mrs. Lamb come to our class to teach us science or drama or art! Next we have lunch, we eat for 20 minutes then go outside for 30 minutes. After lunch we have math. Other subjects that we study are physed, dance, music, library, and we have learning buddies once a week with a class in grade 7 where we share what we have been learning to each other.
We just had one week of vacation from school called March Break. It is not a national holiday, it is just a holiday from school. Some parents still have to work so they go and visit family or go to a daycare. Other families go on vacation to some place warm or they stay home and go on day trips to visit the local attractions.
I am having a great time but I am starting to get homesick and I think I will come back to you soon.
Love,
Miss. Bear
