Out and About in Bagamoyo Town

As part of our theme "Me and my World" we have been learning about our town. We learnt about the different shops in our town and why we need these places. We used cardboard and paper to make our own version of Bagamoyo, our town. We call it 'Mini Bagamoyo'.

Busy preparing walls, floors and items to sell.

Doris with her clothes shop.

Relaxing at the beach.

Main street of Mini Bagamoyo

Each morning, we get to play with Mini Bagamoyo. We like driving our cars along the beach (which we can't do in real life!). We made a hospital, a school, and a petrol station as well as clothes, fruit and material shops.

As part of our theme, on Friday we had an excursion into town. We all took the van and then we split up into two groups. We had to collect data about the shops in Bagamoyo. We put a tick on our page every time we saw a certain type of shop.

A tyre shop

One of the main streets in Bagamoyo.

A salon

A restaurant

We saw 9 photocopy and stationery shops, 4 salons, 2 phone shops and 3 general stores. When we got into the main part of town we went to the new market. We walked through the market and looked at all the fruit and vegetables for sale. Then, we bought oranges and bananas.

Then, it was time for the beach! When we got to the beach, we had chapati and peanut butter and mango juice. It was delicious! We played football and built ponds to catch fish in the sand.

After our morning tea we had lessons on the beach. As part of Geography, Teacher Leonard taught us about the sand soil on the beach and we discussed why people don't farm really close to the beach.

Geography with Teacher Leonard.

The tide was out very far.

Then for history we looked around us and talked about what we could see. Then we turned our minds back to a few thousand years ago and imagined what would be different and what would be the same. We thought about what would be there and what wouldn't. Lawrence thought there wouldn't be any ships but maybe small wooden boats. Regina thought that the hotels would not be there and Cornelius said there would be a very big forest where all the houses and hotels are. We all thought the ocean would be the same but maybe there would be more fish. Back at school, we all drew what we imagined in our minds.

Husna, Standard 3, imagined that there would be small houses and a big forest next to the ocean.

Lisa, Standard 1, though that people didn't live in houses a few thousand years ago. She thought maybe they just lived under sticks and leaves. She also imagined a big forest with lots of trees.

 We all enjoyed our trip to Bagamoyo town and we can't wait until our next excursion. We all learnt some new words and we got to know our town a little better.

Questions:
1. What is the name of our town?
2. Which fruit and vegetables can you see in the market?
3. Why do you think there may have been more fish in the ocean in the past?
4. Go on a tour of your town or street. What do you notice? Which shops do you see? Do you have a lot of photocopy/stationery shops?
5. Look out your classroom window, or stand outside and look around. How would the view have been different in the past?