Tuesday morning, we met at school at 8:30 and loaded 25 students and 5 chaperones into 4 school vans for our 4-hour trip to Lugano. Along the way, we stopped at the Bellinzona castles: three medieval fortifications that are in surprisingly good shape. It was SO MUCH FUN researching them and teaching about them to the kids. It'll just never be the same to teach in a regular classroom again!
Walking the battlements with Rachel
Rachel also found the 600-year-old latrines.
The students' assignment was to sketch 8 castle parts,
combining history and art into one lesson.
We arrived at the Centro Evangelico Magliosa outside of Lugano around 5 pm, giving the kids enough time to explore the grounds and get settled in before supper and our evening program. On Tuesday, the devotions were about "encouragment," and the students engaged in a cool activity in which they wrote each other notes. I love the look on JB's face as he reads his sheet. The rest of the evening was for fun and games - various versions of Minute to Win It. That's what the video in the last post was about, too.
Foosball was a big hit, and the best player of all was the Principal, Ms. Steele!
How many cards could you knock down with an unlimited supply of rubber bands?
1 comment:
Cool Kati. You will have to take us there and tell us about all you learned. Love you, M
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