Thank you!

Recently one of our teachers, Teacher Lauren, visited her home country, Australia. She took Michael, our class bear, with her. Michael and Teacher Lauren visited six primary schools in Australia to tell the students, teachers and even some parents all about STA. The students saw photos, watched videos and even played some games that we play here in Tanzania.

Teacher Lauren and Michael at the airport in Australia.

We saw some photos from the trip and we liked seeing Michael in the photos with the students.

Many of the schools we visited had raised money for STA. That means that they asked people to give money to them and then they gave the money to us to buy things that we need.

We wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all the students who worked hard to raise money for us.

Yea Primary School has a great skipping team and they donated some ropes to us. We only had three broken ropes. The new plastic ropes help us skip faster and do great tricks. They also raised money for us to buy some big books and picture books. Thanks Yea!

A special thank you to Melina and Abbey who donated the money they made from their 'Business in a Bag' project. These two young entrepreneurs donated the profits from their business to STA. Watch the book video above girls and see one of the books you donated. It is called 'The Pig in the Pond'.

Nagambie Primary School, which is Teacher Lauren's old primary school, also made a donation to Steven Tito Academy (STA). With their donation we will be able to buy over 200 levelled reading books! We also got great containers to keep them in, which will protect them. Thank you NPS!

Some of the books bought from the donation made by NPS. The books are printed and then put together by our teachers and volunteers. The new levelled reading books will be put together over the next few weeks.

Avenel Primary School had a few fundraisers and they made enough money to sponsor one of our students. Asha is so happy to have a sponsor and she feels very lucky to have a whole school sponsoring her. Thank you Avenel PS!

We really appreciate all the donations that we received and we also love it when students and teachers and other friends comment on our blog. If you aren't sure how to comment on the blog email Teacher Lauren at laurengeorge@hotmail.com and she can help you.

We look forward to hearing from you soon!

Questions:
Some Maths this week!
1. How many letters in the words 'Thank you'?
2. How many big books did you see in the book video?
3. If 1 Australian dollar equals 1500 Tanzanian shillings, then 9000 Tanzanian shillings equals how many Australian dollars?
4. Isaya can jump rope 3 times in 5 seconds. How many times will he jump rope in 1 minute?
5. Using an atlas, measure the distance from Melbourne, Australia to Bagamoyo, Tanzania. Use the scale to figure out how many kilometres or miles it is.