We are half of the amazing 7th grade atBarneveldSchool. Barneveld is a village of about 1000 people 30 miles west of Wisconsin's capital city, Madison. We have about 450 students total in our district, and we are all in one school. Our teacher Mr. Ryan graduated from Barneveld years back, and our librarian Mrs. Roenneburg was here when he was a kid. We are looking forward to the contest and hearing from other schools.
Barneveld School Group B
We are the other half of the Barneveld seventh grade. Teachers might say we are a little bit noisier than the other group. We are pretty sports crazy and we love to compete. We are looking forward to meeting the other teams and beating the other half of our class.
CSI Grenoble team 6eme
Gimnazia #3
Kalachinsk Team Welll
Team "WELLL" Greetings fromRussia! We live in a small town called Kalachinsk. In our team there areHigh School studentswho have different interests. We study in the best gymnasium in the world, Kalachinsk Gymnasium #1! Our teachers are so cool and fair, they always respect our opinions, thoughts and feelings. We are sporty, clever, kind, active and creative. We like studying, taking parts in different competitions and having fun. Our favourite subjects are English, Chemistry, Mathematics, Social Studies, History, Law and Geography. We like travelling and we would like to travel all over world. Our team is called "WELLL" because we like learning languages, too. We wish you good luck in the Hunt!
Linkhorne Middle School
From Linkhorne Middle School:
Hello, this is Linkhorne Middle School, home of the Jaguars. We are a school inLynchburg, Virginiain the United States of America. We are a class of 20 seventh graders around the age of 12. Linkhorne Middle School excels in many academic competitions in core classes (English, math, science, and social studies.) and loves to take on challenges. We have picked our capital, and have come up with 9 difficult clues for this capital. We wish you luck in trying to find our capital!
Naches Valley Middle School Team A
Hello,
Naches Valley Middle School is located in Central Washington State, in theUnited States of America. We live in an agricultural area where we are known for our Apples, Wine Grapes, and Hops. We live close to theCascade Mountain Range, and have access to lots of outdoor activities like hunting, fishing, skiing. It’s a good place to live.
Our community is small. There are about 500 students in our school, consisting of grades 5 through 8. To get to the nearest “big city†we have to drive for at least two hours.
Naches Valley Middle School Team B
Hi,
If you like skiing, hunting, hiking, camping, eating fruit fresh from the tree, Naches Washington is for you. But, you had better like freezing cold winters with lots of snow, and extremely hot dry summers where you cook in 100 degree heat, or you might not like it here.
Our school, Naches Valley Middle School, is small. Most of the students start school together in kindergarten and continue with the exact same students until we graduate high school. There are only about 100 students in each grade level. Our school has grades 5 through 8, so that’s about 400 students.
Naches Valley Middle School Team C
Introduction for Naches Team C:
Naches is a small town in the Yakima County but we have one of thelargest school districtsin the Yakima County. Our school is in betweentwo Mountains. Naches use to be afarm town. Our town only has One stoplight in the whole town. So to sum it upNachesis a small town.
Naches Valley Middle School Team D
Naches is a small town that relies heavily on farming. It sits at the base of two mountain passes. We have many kinds offruit treesincluding, apples, pears, and cherries. Our middle school has around five hundred students in it. We are excited to play Hunt for Country Capitals and hope you like our clues!
St. Marks Team A
Hello to all Hunters,
We are a 7th grade class fromKansas. Our school has about 350 students from K -8th grades. We have 16 students in our group. We live just outside ofWichitathe biggest city in our state. We love sports. The girls just took first place in Volleyball. We are now getting ready for basketball season. We enjoy music, talking with friends on phones or the computer, shopping, and competing in games like this. We wish all teams good luck and look forward to hearing from you soon. St. Marks 7A Green
St. Marks Team B
Hello tocapital game playerseverywhere,
We are Team 7B White from St. MarksKansas. St. Marks is a very small community near Wichita. We played the landmark game last year and are now out to do better. Our school's colors are Green and White and our mascot is the Eagle. We like sports, computers and things other teens enjoy. We wish everyone good luck but warn you that we want to win. St. Marks 7B White
Vostochny School 664
Dear friends,
We are glad to be back to the game again. For those who are new to the game we would like to introduce ourselves.
We are a group of 15 year old boys and girls of English class, there 12 of us. There two groups in the class and ours has participated in the game for several times. We live on the outskirts of Moscow. Recently the disctrict has changed greatly. There is a lot of construction everywhere. Our school houses grades from 1 to 11. Besides we have special workshops for crafts and a swimming pool next to our school. We have different hobbies - music, reading, computer games, sports, but what unites us is our love of English. We are looking forward to an exciting game Team Vostochny, Moscow
Youth Creating Change of Ghana
Youth Creating Change of Ghana (YCC) is a registered not-for-profit organization dedicating to enhance the lives of young people and encouraging the active exchange of ideas, attitude, feelings and participating in leadership roles in their communities, volunteering and community development projects and programs. YCC is currently operating in 10 communities in Ghana, West Africa.
Entry Level Introductions
Abanskaya School 3
Hi fromRussia
We are students from Siberian town. It’s located not far fromKrasnoyarsk, a great Russian city where a famous Russian painterVasily Surikovwas born and lived. There are some his paintings in theTretyakov GalleryinMoscow. There are about 500 students in our school. Our favourite subjects are English, History and Sport. We are looking forward to learning about the world from playing this game.
We wish everyonelots of luckin playing this game.
American Community School
We
httpWe are 5B, one of four sections of fifth graders at the American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon.Although we all attend school in Beirut, we’re not all from here.We have students from Korea, England, Syria, Brazil, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, and the USA.Our school is near the Mediterranean Sea.In fact, just last Friday, we participated in a Hike4Hunger along the sea.We are an active school.We study three languages (English, Arabic, and French) in addition to math, language arts, science and social studies.Our specials are CAMP: Computers, art ,Music and PE.We have classes both in and out of school! Our “Outdoor Education†campus is located in Deir, Qamar, a lovely site not far from the city.We’re looking forward to playing Hunt for Capitals.
We are the students of Team Favorite. We are 4th grade students at HL Beeler Scool in Marlton, NJ. Our teachers are Mrs. Favorite, Mrs. McCloskey, and Mrs. Rispo. They told us all about the Hunt for Country Capitals game that they did with their students last year. It sounded like so much fun, that we couldn't wait for this year's hunt to begin. We can't wait to start getting all the clues. Good luck to everyone. - Team Favorite
Beeler Elementary School - Team Pino
Introduction:
Hello to all the other teams. We are Team Pino. We are a 4thgrade class at HL Beeler Elementary School in Marlton, NJ. We are very excited about participating in the Hunt for Country Capitals this year. We are looking forward to learning about other countries.
Have fun everyone. We can’t wait to get your clues!
CSI Grenoble team 3eme LV
Elm Grove Elementary School
Gimnasia 3
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Hello! We are a team of 12 Russian boys and girls. We are in the 5th year ofGrammar school. We live in abeautiful cityof Krasnoyarsk. There are 4 boys and 8 girls in our team. We are 11-12 years old. We like English, playing sports games, searching the Net and going out after school. We are glad to take part in this project. We also want to make friends with kids from other countries.
Kalachinsk Team Funny kids
Hello, dear friends! We are glad to meet you in the Hunt for Country Capitals. Our team "Funny Kids" is from Kalachinsk, a small city in Siberia, Russia. We are really funny kids, bright and talented. We are fond of sport, music, art and science. We are interested in learning new things, that's why we decided to take part in this game. We'll do our best and we wish you good luck!
Kristvallabrunnsschool - Team 1
Kristvallabrunnsschool is a small school in the southeast part of Sweden. The nearest town is Nybro and Kalmar is not far away. We are 37 pupils from grade 1-6. The participating grades are grade 4, 5 and 6. We are 17 pupils and one teacher. We live in houses or on farms and many of us have pets. We want to know pupils from all over the world and hope that this is a possibility to do so. We also want to know more about the world and learn more English.
Naches Valley Middle School Team E
Hello, We are 5th graders fromNaches, Washington, USA. We are located just east of the beautifulCascade Mountains. Our location is in thePacific Northwest. We live near three volcanoes, Mt. Adams, Mt. Saint Helens, and Mt. Ranier. We attend school in a 5th-8th grade school.Our town is very small, about 700 population. However, we have the biggest school district in the state, in terms of square mileage! We are big hunters and fisherman. We enjoy sports very much, like baseball, soccer, basketball, volleyball, football, swimming, skiing and snowboarding. We are located nearWhite Pass, which is a popularski resort. We camp, mountain bike, horse trail, anddirt bikeride in the summer. We are very excited to play the Hunt for Country Capitals Game with all of you. Good luck to you!
Sincerely,
Naches Team E
Narragansett Elementary School - team Ward-Bowen
Introduction: We are a fourth grade class of 21 students inNarragansett, Rhode Island. We are located on theAtlantic Ocean, twenty-six miles from our capital city, Providence. We are a school of 537 students, pre K to fourth grade. We are involved in lots of activities here at our school. We run a school science store at lunchtime, work on our school newspaper, sing in the chorus, play in the band, compose songs on Garage Band, and use Scratch Animation in Enrichment class. We fold Origami on Fridays and enjoy watching the birds from our classroom window and work in our classroom garden. Good luck to all the teams!
School #8 – Sevastopol, Crimea
Hello! We are from Sevastopol, Crimea. In the past Crimea belonged to Russia, and Sevastopol was the main port of Russian warships.The city faced several invasions of different enemies, defended bravely and won all the wars.That’s why Sevastopol is proud of its title “The Hero Cityâ€.In 1992 after the collapse of the USSR the Crimea and Sevastopol were included into the Ukrainian territory.But Russian ships are still in the port of Sevastopol and Russian people are the most part of the population.Many tourists visit our city and call it an open-air museum, because there are many famous monuments, memorials and historicalplaces which native citizens are proud of.They say the city influences the people’s character and personality greatly.Perhaps Sevastopol has influenced the members of our team. All of us are self-reliant, curious, tough and purposeful people and we want to win.
Each of us is keen on learning English, so we’ve decided to take part in this game. We want all participants to have a good interesting game that will give them positive emotions and new useful knowledge.
Veterans Elementary School
Hello, from Veterans Elementary in Hannibal Missouri, “America’s Hometownâ€, located along the Mississippi River. We are a family of 4th grade students called the “Adventure Classâ€. During our class meetings we compliment others and help each other resolve conflicts. We try to do our part in making Veterans School bully free by using conflict walks and “I care languageâ€. We love to explore new learning in math and science. We have 21 responsible and respectful students and our teachers are Mrs. Seago and Miss Huitt.
Woodside Elementary School
Written by the Mrs. Wrobel’s 4thgrade technology class.
Woodside Elementary is our school and we are located inBothell , Washingtonnear the big city of Seattle , Washington , USA . Our school has 675 students and we have 28 students in our class. At our school, we have a really nice playground, and playfield, where we are allowed to play American football, soccer, kickball and baseball. We like our recess!
Our 4thgrade class has 9 and 10 year old students, and we all like school pretty well. Right now, Silly Bands are really popular and these are therubber bandbracelets that come in all shapes and colors. We are all excited to be part of thisscavenger huntand hope that our clues are good ones.
Mrs. Wrobel is our computer teacher and we get to see her once a week. She’s helping us with this scavenger hunt and we are giving the clues to her to give to the person in charge.
Entry Level Group II
Alexander Doniphan Elementary
We are fourth graders from Alexander Doniphan Elementary inLiberty, Missouri. Our school has a student population of 475 kids in grades K-5. Our school is named after a famous general. Our town dates back to the early 1800’s. We are a suburb onKansas City, Missouri. Despite being landlocked, our school mascot is the Dolphin---we DIVE into learning! We can’t wait to get all your clues! Good luck, everyone!
Ananda Marga River School year 5
Beeler Elementary School - Team Natale
Introduction.
We are the 23 members of Team Natale. We are 4th grade students at the Beeler Elementary School in Marlton, NJ. Marlton is an old town, with its origin dating back to the 1600s. It got its name from the soil, which is a type of green clay. Marlton is also known by the name Evesham Township. We like living here very much. It is a friendly community with nice neighbors who help and care about each other. We are looking forward to the Hunt for Country Capitals. Our teacher tells us that it is a lot of fun!
Berezovka School
Hello from a small Siberian village!
We are four cheerful girls and we’d love to participate in this project.
Our hobbies are painting, music, photography, sport.
We are looking forward to this great contest.
Best of luck to everyone.
Margarita, Anastasia, Olesya, Maria.
Eleanor Rush Intermediate School
Hello Fellow Country Capital Hunters!
We are a team of 3rdthrough 5thGraders who participate in a program forgifted and talented studentscalled Project Challenge.
Our school is Eleanor RushIntermediate SchoolinCinnaminson , New Jersey , United States.
Our school mascot is the parrot.
We are very excited to participate in the Hunt for Country Capitals game and can’t wait to learn and have fun!
Elm Grove Elementary School
Grammar School 1
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 ofplaces of interests.Here you can see suchbeautiful placesas 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!!! Yours sincerely, The Katty's Hunters.
