Fifth grader Julian Skolnik’s mother, Erica Skolnik, shared some of her impressions of South Africa with Ms. Mujal’s fifth grade geography class on January 12. She and her family traveled there for four weeks in 2010. She shared photos from the trip and we learned about the varied wildlife, including baboons and penguins there. She shared the view of Cape Town from the top of Table Mountain and showed us what a township looked like then. She also shared photos of Nelson Mandela’s house in Soweto and the apartheid museum there. The fifth grade geography class has been studying the continent of Africa, and is currently reading a book entitled A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, which is about Sudanese refugee Salva Dut’s life.
South African Adventure
