Landmark Games 2013 Introductions

Submitted by a-terrys on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 04:30
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Do you know this Landmark?

Hello Players from around the world! Please use this Forum space to share information about your part of the world. Include photos of your school or countryside or anything you think might be interesting to the other players in the games.

This year we have an even larger group of players - two categories for Primary in A and B, and a large group in Challenge. At last count, we have 85 teams. I am waiting for final confirmation from a few teams.

It is my distinct pleasure to coordinate this global learning experience! I know from your emails that it is a challenge to organize in your classrooms, and at the same time, it is a significant learning opportunity in both geography, culture, and language for your students.

Best to all!

Terry Smith

Landmark Coordinator
smithterryk@gmail.com
 

Submitted by a-piaa on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 15:14

It's nice to see again here this wonderful project. I hope you all could have fun time in this game!l

I look forward to read the clues ... and try to guess... ;-)

Pia from Italy

 

Submitted by a-terrys on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 22:37

I added this one from the World Travellers of a-NatalyaS

 

Hello Lanmark players!

We are a group of 13 students from Talovaya  secondary school. There are more than 1200 students in it. We are 5th graders (10-11 years old). We will tell you about our native place and school in a blog a bit later. You can also visit our school website  to learn a little more about us.  

We look forward to this year's game!  You can ask questions through our English teacher Natalya Solodovnikova at dist-sol@mail.ru

Good luck!

 

BLOG - http://worldtravellersfromtalovayaschool.blogspot.ru

Submitted by a-terrys on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 22:41

Narragansett Elementary School, http://www.narragansett.k12.ri.us/nes/ , http://mrsprest.edublogs.org/

Carol Batchelder

Team Prest Introduction:

We are a fourth grade class of 21 students in Narragansett, Rhode Island.  We are located on the Atlantic Ocean, twenty-six miles south of our capital city, Providence.  Narragansett elementary school has 537 students in grades pre K through fourth grade.  We are involved in lots of activities here at our school.  We work on our school newspaper, sing in the chorus, play in the band,  and use Robotics and Scratch Animation in Enrichment classes.  
Good luck to all the teams!

Submitted by a-terrys on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 22:44

Teacher name – Lyudmila Golubeva
Team name – «Stars» -- Grade primary, year 4 -- skype – shemisphere

Blog- http://dave-friendship.blogspot.com/

We are group of students from Russia. We’d like to tell you about our lyceum. We like it very much. It is in Siberia, Kansk, Krasnoyarskyi krai, Russia. We are in the 4 form. Our lyceum was founded in 2003. It is a nice three-storeyed building. Its classrooms are light and spacious. There is a sports ground behind the school-building and a swimming pool.

We wear uniform in lyceum. Teachers of our lyceum help us receive deep knowledge in different subjects. They are understanding and tolerant. Every year in autumn we have the Health Day. On this day pupils have a lot of sport competitions and joy. We run, jump, play football and volleyball. We like taking part in different projects. It’s fun!

Submitted by a-terrys on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 22:50

Gymnasium №1 – Kalachinsk, Omsk region
Teacher – Ekaterina Ponomareva, katty_444@mail.ru
Team name – Team_5A, Team_6B, Team_7A, Team _8A, Team_8B, Team_9A
Age/grade level of kids – 11-14 -- Skype – katty_206

Team_5A

Our gymnasium is the best school in our town and in the world! We like it very much. We are the most active, the most optimistic and we always try to do our best in learning English!!!And this project is not the exception!!!!

Team_6 B

We are from Kalachinsk, Russia. Our gymnasium is the best school in our town and in the world! We like it very much. We are interested in sport, foreign languages and music. We are the most active, the most optimistic and we always try to do our best in learning English!!!And this project is not the exception!!!!We’ll participate in it to get the best!

Team_8B

Hello! We are from Kalachinsk, Omsk region. We have already tried to take part in this game and hope that this time it will be more successful. We liked this game very much! We are curious, active and creative! Let’s compete and Good Luck!!

Team_8A

There are lots of exciting places and cities in the world and we should know about them. We take part in this project as we are interested in new things and we are ready to share our knowledge with other people. We are creative students and we are ready to get our best.

We study at gymnasium. It is very big and all teachers are the best here. We adore it very much. We are very optimistic children. We take part in different competitions and almost always win! We are creative students and we are ready to get our best. We are the Winners!!!

Team_ 7A

Hello!
 We are the students from Kalachinsk. We live in a wonderful city in spite it is little known in the world. There are lots of places of interests. Here you can see such beautiful places as the park with its lake, the memorial and the stadium. We are proud of our city as it has 215-years history!
 In our city there are several schools where the most intelligent students study. And we are not the exception. We are the most serious, tolerant, communicative and creative students! Though we try our chance in your project for the first time we are sure not to miss it and to get the best!!!
Wish you good Luck!

Team_9A

Hello! Gymnasia 1 (Team 5A) Kalachinsk, Omsk, Russia Let’s us introduce ourselves! We are the best class in our gymnasium. We are bright, clever, funny, smart, talkative, lucky and curious! We spend a lot of time together. It’s amazing how much we have in common! We are the best friends for ages!!!

It’s great that there is a chance to check our knowledge in this game. We’ll try to get the best results. Wish you good luck!

 

 

Submitted by a-terrys on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 22:51

We are Team Tatem Tigers and would like to be in the Primary level of
the Landmark Project. This team is a combination of Ms. Halbert’s 3rd grade and Mrs. Bushey’s 5th grade.
J. FithianTatem Elementary School -  Haddonfield, NJ  USA
 - Skype: HMHS08033
Blog: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=316581
School Web page: http://www.haddonfield.k12.nj.us/tatem/

Submitted by a-terrys on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 22:54

Gymnasium #1, Kalachinsk, Omsk region, Russia

Teacher - Tatiana Kaigorodova, a-TatianaKa
 Email for playing - tatiana_au@mail.ru -- Team name - Phoenix
Grade level of your players - 7  : Primary  Skype – lucky_you_are

Some information about us. We live in a small Siberian town called Kalachinsk. Our town is very nice. We are students of 7A grade of Gymnasium #1, it’s a kind of a grammar school. We are very active, clever and sociable. We are so different, but we are friends. We enjoy learning new things and reading interesting books. We are sporty and often take part in different competitions and in the most cases win. We would like to take part in this game, too. We all have important interests, but there is one thing we have in common: we like the English language very much. So we are happy to try our chance in the challenge and wish everyone good luck in the Game!

Submitted by a-terrys on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 22:56

Dear Terry,
Our favourite geographical competition is here again and we are looking forward to
searching hidden places.
 Gymnazium dr. A. Hrdlicky, Humpolec
sKomenského 147, Humpolec, 39601, The Czech Republic
School web: www.gymhu.cz
contact persons: Eva Karafiátová, evakarafiatova@seznam.cz
Jana Blehová, jana.blehova@centrum.cz

Submitted by a-terrys on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 22:57

Welcome to the Landmark Game!  This is Ms. Huseman from Eugene Field Elementary in Hannibal, Missouri USA.  This year is a little different in my room as I now have only eight students.  Having so many students transition  in and out of my room has been a challenge.  The Landmark Game may now prove to be one of the biggest challenges as we will have so much research to complete with so few people, but I know we will accomplish the task!!  Check out our class blog at classblogmeister.com

 

Best of luck to all the teams and LET THE GAME BEGIN!!!

Submitted by a-terrys on Sat, 02/16/2013 - 23:00

Alexander Doniphan Elementary   Liberty, Missouri
web address:  http://ad.liberty.k12.mo.us/.
Joan Arth:  jarth@liberty.k12.mo.us  

We have 76 students-4 classes-4th grade, 9/10 year old

Team Campbell - Hi!  We are from Alexander Doniphan Elementary School in Liberty, Missouri.  We are a team of 4th graders.  Our teacher is Miss Campbell.  We work well as a team and are competitive.  Our class has 18 pupils.  We hope you enjoy the competition.  We are looking forward to it!!  Good luck to all!

Team Kesner - We are Mrs. Kesner’s class from Alexander Doniphan Elementary in Liberty, Missouri, USA! Our school is named after this famous Missourian.  We are silly fun 4th graders with lots of imagination.  We get along and work great together.  We are thrilled to be competing against you in the Landmark Challenge primary games!  It is an experience for us to be competing with teams from around the world.  Good luck to all participating!!

Team Graham -We are in Mrs. Graham’s 4th grade class at Alexander Doniphan Elementary in Liberty, Missouri!  Our school’s symbol or mascot is the dolphin.  We can’t wait to dive into the landmark challenge.  All 18 of us are excited to be participating in this event.  We are hoping to get more than half of the landmarks correct.

Team McArtor - We are from Alexander Doniphan Elementary in Liberty, Missouri.  We are in the 4th grade in Mrs. McArtor’s class.  Mrs. Arth is our librarian who is helping with this project.  Our school is a K-5 building. Our school was named after a famous Missourian.  Our school mascot is the dolphin.  We are looking forward to competing with all of you.

 

 

Submitted by a-irinam on Sun, 02/17/2013 - 09:18

We are happy to greet all the participants!

Our team is from Siberian city Krasnoyarsk. Krasnoyarsk is a capital city of Krasnoyarsk Region which is the geographical centre of Russia.

We are a mixed group of students of several 8th forms. All together there are 25 of us. We take part in such kind of project for the first time and hope that we’ll be able to make a good team. This game will help us to make friends within our team and with students from other teams.

Our gymnasium 14 is rather old. This year we celebrated its 40th anniversary. Different forms helped in the organization. Some invited former teachers and school graduates, others decorated the classrooms, corridors and the assembly hall. In the gymnasium there are some creative teams which gave a concert for guests and active teaching staff.

All the participants in our team are active students. We are always engaged in different class and after-class (extra-curricular) activities. Just a week ago we presented our projects in English “An effective advertisement” and this week we are going to make crosswords and puzzles “Science and technology”, also in English.  

You can visit our gymnasium web http://www.gimnaziy14.ru/ and ask your questions our team coordinator Irina Maslova ir_maslova@mail.ru . We would like to make friends with other teams and have contact with them even after the game Landmarks.

Team Maslova

Submitted by a-terrys on Sun, 02/17/2013 - 09:44

The American Community School at Beirut, Lebanon (ACS) was founded in 1905, when a small group of American parents from the Syrian Protestant College, now named the American University of Beirut, (AUB) founded a school that offered an American curriculum.  Currently, we have an enrollment of over 1000 students, in four divisions (Early Years, Elementary, Middle and High School).  

Again in 2013, our Landmark Games participants are from the Elementary division (Grade 4 and Grade 5). Visit our websites and blogs to learn a little more about us.  

Grade 5 Blog   ACS Official Website   Elementary Directory

 

Submitted by a-TatianaS (not verified) on Sun, 02/17/2013 - 14:25

Hello,

We are Pathfinders, a team of 4 classmates. We are typical 9-graders who like playing football, surfing the Net and listening to music. We've joined the project to make new friends and have some fun!

Good luck to every team.

 

Submitted by a-NadezhdaI on Tue, 02/19/2013 - 12:51

hello everybody!

We are so excited to participate in this search. We are surprised to see so many teams from Russia, Siberia and Krasnoyarsk in particular. It's really a small world!

Actually, there are three of us, that is three teams: Siberian eagles, Siberian Stars and Winter Bears. We are students of Grades 4-6, aged 10-13. We all come from Gymnasia classes with challenging curricula and 5 classes of english per week. So we are eager to improve our language skills through the project.

our school is over 75 years old, thogh the building itself is a bit younger.

There are about 1,200 students and 80 teachers in it. We often take part in various educational, social, creative and even International projects.

happy searching to all of us! Get! Set! GO!