Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Cheetah House!

One of the neat things about Windhoek International School is that they have houses, like in Harry Potter. All kids in the same family are put into the same house. The three houses are: Cheetahs, Lions and Leopards. Maxine, Alice and Ruby are all cheetahs! Like in Harry Potter, you earn house points for athletics, as well as for doing well in class, for being a good citizen, or for doing something extra.
Maxine earned a house point for bringing her photo album that one of her best friends, Frances, made for her of St. Anthony Park School and the neighborhood. The kids were all impressed! They even made Maxine sing “America the Beautiful” in front of the whole class.

Alice has earned two house points. She earned one for helping to develop something for the school wide assembly, and one for being especially creative in math (or as they call it, “maths”)!

Another neat thing about WIS is that they have extracurricular activities that are included in the school fees (though for the price of the school, they better include them)! Maxine is in book club, drawing and choir. Alice is in book fun, girls’ soccer and crafts. There aren’t as many available to Ruby, but she does get to take Namibian dancing. Ruby is picking up the Namibian dancing fast!


The Main Office at Windhoek International School

2 comments:

The Bedfords said...

Tell the girls their boy cousins are jealous about their school having "houses" as in the Harry Potter series. Sounds like all is well your way. I picked up my passport renewal papers today. I'm hoping to come this September when the kids are back in school.

Love,
Shannon & Family

Mr. Clark said...

Hi Alice and family -

Ms. Krider's class read your blog today 2/4/08 and Kate says "We liked it a lot!" William said "Wow, cool stuff about the dorms and being like Harry Potter."

Many other kids wanted to say hello, but Mr. Clark's next class is here.

Ms. Krider says great job on the maths!

We really miss you!

Bye!