Campfire song: There are no bananas in the sky

Great song 🙂 tune very close to .. Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. There are no .. bananas in the sky, in the sky, There are no .. bananas in the sky, in the sky, But there’s a sun, And a moon, And a coconut cream pie (dramatic pause) But there are no bananas in the sky, in the sky! (Actions on NO, bananas, sky, sun, moon, coconut cream pie) The action words are also louder and more dramatic and No and Pie are long. Coconut cream pie of course is a massive planetary object much bigger than the Sun and Moon. Repeat going silent on another action word each time until penultimate verse: There are (action) (action) in the (action) in the (action) There are (action) (action) in the (action) in the (action) But there’s a (action), and a (action), and a (action), But there are (action) (action) in the (action), in the (action)! And finish up very dramatically with all the words back in.

Scouts - Compass Rose fill-in Relay game - English and Japanese

See attached .pdf file for printing: Scouts-Compass-Rose-fill-in-relay-game.pdf

PREPARATION:

Print the compass roses. These are displayed in one place or different places around hall.

Print the sheet of compass points on different coloured paper.

Cut up compass points to separate each point (or tearing up is part of relay done by Scouts in game, or use coloured chalk).

Draw or big rope mark one BIG circle on floor to be the compass rose. Mark where North is (or another point ;-)).

RUN GAME:

Fill in compass points relay: scouts run up, grab a point, have to place it on compass rose on floor.

One point at a time per team member.

Scouts can look at compass rose info, ask team members,

etc etc when they are placing point.

SCORING and REVIEW:

Go around compass checking each colour/team

1 point per correct placement

Ignore incorrect placements

Team Review go around and pick up incorrect

Placements and move to correct place.

COMPASS POINTS TEXT: The .pdf doc puts this in table for easier printing:

N S E W

NE NW SE SW

NNE NNW SSE SSW

ENE WNW ESE WSW

0° 22.5° 45° 67.5°

90° 112.5° 135° 157.5°

180° 202.5° 225° 247.5°

270° 292.5° 315° 337.5°

360° 30° 60° 120°

Japanese: Kanji - on reading in hiragana, kun readings in katakana

北 - きた (kita), ホク(hoku)

 南 - みなみ (minami), ナン(nan) , ナ(na) 

東 - ひがし (higashi),トウ(tou)

⻄  - にし (nishi), セイ(sai), サイ(sei) , ス(su)

CREDIT and Thanks Source and link for images:

https://www.japanesewithanime.com

https://freesvg.org/compass-rose-vector-sketch

Compass Rose with numerical degrees and compass letters

https://freesvg.org/dual-compass-rose

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Compass Rose with numerical degrees and compass letters

Japanese and English compass rose - cardinal and in-between cardinal points to one level

Japanese compass rose with cardinal, in-between and in-between-in-between points
Kanji and romaji

Scouts - Map and compass quiz updated

Quiz - Compass and Map and Leave No Trace see .pdf doc:

Quiz-CompassAndMap-And-LeaveNoTrace-And-CompassPointRelayGame.pdf

Parts of compass and parts of Map Quiz.

Need to have: Maps to give out or look at ideally 1 per group

Good to have: Simple baseplate compasses

Leave no trace - Quiz or woruld work better as walking debate maybe.

Compass Points relay game.

idea/thought: Importance of setting for education, chimes with #EducatingIsPerformance, Engagement

Triggered by: https://twitter.com/BrookeEdu/status/1595450828298534913

On friendly space to be in school, example being a Library and how furniture, decorations etc matter. And how could you do the same with other spaces e.g. Math classroom ...

Thinking that our Scout Den needs more nice things on display.

Related to #EducationIsPerformance (not really IS performance but #TeacherPerformanceHelpsEducation is maybe less catchy? TPHE ?) i.e. if the educator can perform and engage students it helps get things started. If the space is right and you have good materials and tools then it helps learning to happen.

Goran brought power drill to Scouts yesterday :-) We dug out spars, wood, sticks, saws .. 

3 groups working on making better 1. work-tops/tables, 2. sink/basin wash stands, 3. plate rack.

Brooke Harris-Thomas

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i've been conducting my dissertation interviews with black girls in middle school. one question i ask is where do they feel the most like they belong when at school. so many girls have mentioned the library, so i went to check it out with one participant.

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upon entering, there was a large projector screen with a fireplace scene and music playing, twinkle lights, soft seating, a variety of book generes, and places for collaboration. the space was curated with intention and it mattered to the students.

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the study is focused on the math classroom, and so i cannot help but wonder how this might translate into the math classroom. looking forward to digging into these interviews!

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