Our friends from Taiwan have arrived safely back home. We had a wonderful visit with them and wish it had not passed by so quickly. While they were here, they taught us how to use Chinese Yoyo’s and shared the art of calligraphy. We learned about their culture and traditions, and they experienced our learning [...]
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Highlights of A Great Visit
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Trick or Treat
Halloween of 2012 will always be remembered as one that we shared with our friends from Taiwan. The children from Raey Guang experienced their “firsts” for pumpkin carving, costume making and classroom parties with traditional games and activities. I am in the process of collecting photos from teachers and parents for a special slide show [...]
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Welcome Raey Guang Friends!
Our good friends from Raey Guang arrived today…bringing with them lots of excitement and energy! We celebrated their arrival with an all school assembly, listened to presentations about the culture and foods, learned some mandarin phrases, watched a traditional puppet show and learned how to use a Chinese Yoyo. This evening our friends are staying [...]
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Traveling…Google Earth Style
To help our students and staff appreciate the distance our Raey Guang sister school friends are traveling to meet us, I created a screencast video using two great free apps: SCREENR and GOOGLE EARTH. This video will take you on a virtual tour from the United States to Michigan to Hudsonville and our school to [...]
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Mandarin: Words to Practice
Mr. Brain Kleinsmith, the Mandarin teacher at BMS and RMS, created some tutorials to help us prepare for our visitors from Pingtung, Taiwan. They will arrive on October 29 and stay through November 1. As Mr. Kleinsmith shares in his introduction, our visitors are so very honored when we use these simple greetings. [...]
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Sister School Visit!
Our sister school, Raey Guang Elementary (Pingtung, Taiwan) will be visiting us October 29 through November 1. This will be their third visit to our school and we are thrilled to host them again. Making the trip are 20 children (ages 8-12) and four teachers. There are twelve Georgetown families that are hosting our guests. [...]
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Children of Taiwan Are Wonderful!
The ADVANCE Newspaper featured Georgetown and our Taiwanese Sister School in their May 5 edition. We are so honored to have a friendship with the teachers, children and families of Raey Guang Elementary. Throughout the weekend, I will be photos of the host family activities as well as school day activities on the blog later [...]
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Welcome Raey Guang Friends!
This morning, we officially welcomed our friends from Raey Guang Elementary School! They arrived on Wednesday morning and we have spent the past 36 hours learning about one another’s educational, cultural and social traditions. As a school, we celebrated our international friendship with songs, gifts and more together. Mr. Bowen, one of our fourth grade [...]
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Raey Guang Students Are Getting Closer!
Our Raey Guang pen pals are now in New York City! They are busy touring many sites in the Big Apple from now through Tuesday. Posted below are some photos they sent our way via email. We can’t wait for their arrival on Wednesday…and we are hoping the sun shines while they are [...]
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