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Molly’s Kenya Part 3

A lot of children have said how much they enjoy Molly’s videos and in this one that she created 2 days ago she compares her life to the one of an Italian girl featured in one of the previous videos, and decides that  their  lives are not so different. What do you think

Exciting news! I have also posted the questions from Class 5M  for Molly and hope that she will get a chance to answer them as she is going online on Tuesday 6th March at 10am Nairobi time which is 8 hours behind us to answer questions from around the world. Luckily, the World Food Programme  have been in contact with me and said that the live feed is being recorded and will be available on their website on International Women’s Day March 8. Here is a link to information about Molly: Meet Molly  🙂

Mrs Booth

 Do you think Molly’s life is very different from yours?

What is the same?

If you have any questions for Molly post them now so I can send them to her

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Molly’s Kenya Part 2

Molly has posted two more updated videos so those following her can see and hear about her life. One of the videos shows a girl in Italy who’s life is very different from Molly’s and yet they share a common bond and can see similarities. I have written to the World Food Programme and told them that Class 5M has been watching Molly’s videos and wants to help her. Perhaps we can make a video about our life and school to send to Molly.

Did you know that Molly’s school provides each student with one healthy and nutritious meal so that they can study well and have healthier bodies. If you watch the first video you will see that they use a lot of maize. For many of the children this is their only meal for the whole day and so they all go to school. These school meals are funded by a program called Coins 4 Kids  and this might be a fundraising idea for class 5M?

Mrs Booth

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A day in Molly’s shoes: Poverty

Class 5M have started looking at poverty and what defines poverty. The Oxford dictionary describes poverty as being: Poverty: The state of being poor; want of the necessities of life.

The United Nations last night sent me a tweet (yes I use and love  Twitter) about a series of videos made by a young girl in Kenya, Africa called Molly. Molly is 12 and lives in poverty but is using a video camera donated by Cisco and going to a school where she receives a meal provided by the World Food Programme, run by the United Nations. She films what is happening in her community and to show what her life is like. Molly is only a 12 year old child but through her actions  her voice now is being heard all over the world. Well done Molly and thankyou for bringing your story to us. Now it is our turn to make life better for you and your community.



This is the link to MollyKenya Channel-YouTube

I have created a page on our blog called Action Kids! and will be putting up some links later today which all students from around the world will be able go to and use to help them have voice also 🙂

Mrs Booth

 How can we help Molly?

Is there poverty in Australia?

What types of poverty are there?

Are you an Action Kid and have you done anything to help others?

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One busy day for 5M

Wow, what a busy day for 5M as they covered everything from English, spelling, maths, HSIE and virtual world technology! The maths was particularly challenging as the children worked on a whole class problem solving activity that could be solved using many different strategies. It was also interesting to read the different arguments for and against having MP3 players in class.

We didn’t get a chance to do any work on our school blog but Robert wrote an excellent report on last weeks cricket match between Coffs Harbour PS and Woolgoolga PS and April created a poll for graffiti art.

HSIE was demanding as the students explored poverty and what it means to be in poverty. They then made a comparison between their lives and the life of a child in poverty. It is interesting to look at the flag counter or visitor information widgets on the left hand side of our blog and see the countries that don’t display any ‘hits’. Why is this do you think?

5M have a very busy day on PhotoPeach

Mrs Booth

Why do you think there are no ‘hits’ or visits to our blog  from certain countries on our visitor information widget?

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