2014
Our class, 2014!
"No whining!" Great.
Time for some floorball.
Tasting traditional Finnish candy, salmiakki.
Learning Finnish numbers.
Here we all are!
2013
 | ||||||||
| Here we go! Matu and Steve Aho are preparing for the first lesson by remembering, how to use smart board |
 |
| First we introduced ourselves by photo presentations and verbally. |
 |
| Deligent journalists in their news desk |
 |
| Opinion about a portrait by an unknown photo artist |
 |
| Guess who is imitating an animal. Fun game for final day! |
 |
| GMF - and you are responsive! |
 |
| Lunch time! |
 | |
| Photo tour through our past 4 weeks was part of the final day together |
 |
| Spelling training with desks and shavig foam - such a active and cheerful way to develop pupils' writing skills! |
 |
| To promote global understanding - one of the main goals of Hei Suomi! program |
 |
| Portraits snapped by kids themselves by SLR professional camera. |
 |
| American school bus - so recognizable part of local school culture! |
 |
| Microphone is a good way to save your voice with big class! |
 |
| Kids, their parents, grand parents and other local people came to listen our presentation about Hei Suomi! -program. Very nice, informal and warm meeting with local people! |
 |
| Local newspaper - such a great way to start your journey to journalism! |
 |
| Some chilling with camera - and enjoying first sunny days! |
 |
| Creating comics |
 |
| The audience is ready for the play session |
 |
| Counting reindeers, one is missing! One of the great plays - produced and acted by kids. |
 |
| Computer lab was in tight use during our 4 weeks. Producing E-Magazine took lot of time! |
 |
| Floorball - one of the concrete presents we left to South Range |
 |
| We told something about Sami-culture for kids and they had chance to try some Sami-clothes too! |
 |
| Taking photos is good way to illustrate current weather conditions. Remember to use some scale (like standing people) in picture! |
 |
| April 19th and the school day was cancelled because of snow storm.. |
 |
| ..and week after that we could take our first heat with soccer ball. So prepare for VERY variable weather conditions! |
 |
 |
Cropping
is one of the most important choosing before pressing shutter button of
camera. Little move of zoom makes remarkable effect for the final
result, especially when using telezoom -lens.
|
 |
| A trip to Finland was the topic for the comic task |
 |
| Boys presenting their comics |
 |
| Concentrated listening! |
 |
| Greetings for last year's students! |
 |
| 3rd graders just got their Finnish names and now it's time for sweeter souvenirs.. |
 |
| ..Finnish chocolate! |
2012
 |
| Our wonderful first Hei Suomi! -class! |
 |
| At least something from Finland was already known! |
 |
 |
| Blogging! |
 |
| Girls posing for their picture. |
 |
| Eeva observing on the first days at SRES. |
 |
| Eager learners. |
 |
| Groups switching from one outside task spot to another - what's the hurry? |
 |
| Mr. Aho coaching the finalists of the boot throwing competition. |
 |
| Example of one of the techniques of boot throwing. |
 |
| Result of a lot of cutting and gluing! |
 | ||
| Finland's map and some art. |
 |
| Paintings about the four seasons in Finland. |
 | |
| Detail from our map. |
 |
| Some of the boys were interested in playing guitar after our Finnish music lesson! |
PS. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of pictures from all of our activities at class. Just an advice for future Hei Suomi! -teachers: you can't take too much pictures and videos! Try to remember to have your camera ready all the time even though it's sometimes hard to remember that in the busy lessons!:)
