The School I go to in Botswana

I am in standard 2, which is second grade. All of the standard 1's and 2's have assembly first thing on Wednesday. At the assembly you like practice songs about different things. One song is about saying hello in different languages. It goes something like "hello, bonjour, buenos dias..." but I don't remember the whole song. Sometimes the standard 1 or 2 class sings a song at assembly and sometimes we get awards. My teacher gave me an award for "Super Work." It said on the back: "A very creative shield and castle! Well done. You are also trying very hard to improve your handwriting. You read so beautifully!"

The standard 2 classes sit in lines before class starts

Each class gets up to walk to the classrooms

My class walking to the classroom

Well, we are learning about castles and knight. One thing I am doing in class is making a castle out of lots of milk cartons and cereal boxes and stuff. I also made a picture of a knight and a shield and a knight jousting. Jousting is something where knights have these big poles and they're on horses and they try to knock each other off the horses with the poles.

A knight that I colored

I also have these handwriting books that I practice cursive in. The school thinks that having good handwriting is very important. I also do this thing where I write about what I did on weekends and draw pictures to go with the writing. I have this math book too that I do times tables and stuff in. In music I practice the songs that I might do at assemblies and the songs that everybody does at assemblies. I also play "boom-whackers", which are these plastic tubes that you hit on your hands to make music.

The swimming pools

We swim a lot at my school because it is hot here. The pool is outdoors also. When I swim, I practice like breaststroke and diving. Sometimes I have to swim across the pool the long way, which is like 100 feet.

Swimming class

Swimming class

In computers I play different games on the computer. One of them was called "Globs." In Globs there's six different colors; the first one's green, then yellow, then blue, then purple, then orange. Those colors were spread out across in different places, so you had to connect the globs by clicking on the different colors and getting them to squish together.

My class lining up for Setswana class

We also have Setswana class. Setswana is the native language of Botswana. I practice songs in Setswana and learn some words. This is how you say hello to boys: "Dumela Rra". And this is how you say hello to girls: "Dumela Mma". We also have library and PE.

The library

Outside of my classroom

In the afternoon after school on Tuesdays and Wednesdays I do afternoon activities. On Tuesdays I play like chess, tennis and basketball. On Wednesdays I am learning cricket. I have learned how to bowl, which is where you like pitch the ball to the batter.When you bowl, you have to keep your arm straight. You also have to make the ball bounce before it gets to the batter.

Cricket lessons

There's four different playgrounds at my school. Me and the rest of the standard 2's go in one of them. There's a game called "stuck in the mud" that we like to play. There's two people that are the mud, who try to tag you. If you get tagged, then you get stuck in the mud and the people who are the mud try to tag all of you, and if somebody gets to you and tags you is not a mud, then you are free. If you get tagged three times, then you are permanently stuck in the mud. Then when the mud gets everybody, the game is over.

One of the playgrounds at school

Playing in the playground

Near the front of the school

My teacher is Miss Mackay. She is from South Africa. She is really nice and has helped me a lot with my handwriting. Some of my friends are Tokelo, Nicholas, and Rhaino.

Miss Mackay

Me and Elliot getting ice cream after school