Primary Students Connecting and Sharing
Archive for October, 2011
Recess and Lunch Activities in Leopold, Australia
Oct 31st
It is Week Two of the “Our World, Our Stories” project!
The topic that we will be sharing this week is:
“Recess and Lunch Time Activities”
There are 45 students in 2KM and 2KJ and we are in Grade Two at Leopold Primary School. We live in Australia, in the state of Victoria.
Our teachers, Mrs Morris and Miss Jordan, team teach in a big open classroom and we complete all of our learning activities together. Leo is our special class mascot and he loves to blog as much as we do!
Our school year began in February and we only have eight weeks until the end of the year!
Check out our slideshow to find out what is in our school playground and what we enjoy doing at recess and lunch times.
Do you have any questions for us?
How is your recess or lunch time similar/different to ours?
What do you enjoy doing at recess and lunch times?
A Typical School Day in Belize
Oct 28th
Better late than never I suppose!
Here is a little slideshow about our school day in Belize!
A Typical School Day in Reefton, New Zealand
Oct 27th
We’re excited to add our video of a typical school day in Reefton, New Zealand.
We live in a small community of about 900 on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Our school is an Area School, which means we have students from Year 1-13 (5-18 years old). There are about 200 students at our school.
We have 21 students aged 6 and 7 in our class, a mascot (a kea called Quicksilver) and two teachers.
Mrs McKenzie first came to teach in Reefton in 1983, and she takes the class for maths, literacy and art, and Mrs Webb who takes Topic, PE, Arts and handwriting.
Our school year started at the end of January and will finish for the summer on December 12.
Thanks for watching! We’ve enjoyed sharing our day with you.
Do you have any questions for us?
A Typical School Day in California
Oct 27th
We so enjoyed Mr. Salsich’s class slide show and Mrs. Watson’s video! We are excited to share a typical California day with our new friends!
We are a suburban community with a school population of about 600 students. In our class, we have 25 third graders, a helpful mascot named Panda, and a large bear named Beverly who is barely awake most days! Our teacher is Mrs. Yollis, and she has been teaching students at our school for twenty-five years!
We started school on August 24 and the year ends on June 12.
On the bottom right there is a button to watch full screen.
Typical California School Day on PhotoPeach
We are happy to answer any questions you have!
A Typical School Day in Sointula, Canada
Oct 26th
We loved Mr. Salsich’s slideshow so much that we wanted to share our typical school day with you too.
Our school is located on a little island off the West Coast of Canada. 800 people live on our island and there are 50 students in our school from kindergarten to grade 7. Our school seems very small compared to a lot of schools we hear about.
We started school on September 6th this year and will go until the end of June. We made this video to show you what a typical day at our school looks like. We hope you like it!
A Typical School Day in Connecticut
Oct 23rd
Welcome to the first week of the “Our World, Our Stories” project!
The topic that we will be sharing this week is:
“A Typical School Day”
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Mr. Salsich’s class from Connecticut, USA is very excited to get the sharing started.
Connecticut, USA
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We live in a small rural/suburban town on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. There are 21 students in our class.
Below is a slideshow of what a “typical” school day is like for us.
(You can click on the box in the bottom right corner to view it in full screen.)
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How is your school day similar to ours?
How is your school day different from ours?
Do you have any questions about our school day?
Our World, Our Stories Begins October 24
Oct 12th
We are very excited about our new global project that is set to begin on Monday October 24, 2011.
Classes involved
2KM and 2KJ from Victoria, Australia
B4 from New Zealand
Mrs Yollis’ third grade class from California, USA
Mr Salsich’s third grade class from Connecticut, USA
Melody Watson’s 2/3 class from Canada
Andy Sefa Boachie and his students from Kumasi, Ghana
Miss Usher’s standard 3 class from Punta Gorda, Belize
View Our World, Our Stories in a larger map
Check out the About Pages at the top of this blog to find out more about the classes.
How will it work?
Students from all classes will connect and collaborate by sharing their stories, experiences, thoughts and opinions about a variety of themes. This will happen through this blog. A different class will “lead” a topic each week, publishing posts and moderating comments. The other classes will read the posts, possibly publish their own posts, and students will leave blog comments.
The learning
Through the blog comments, students from the different classes will have conversations. Students will gain an understanding of different countries and cultures. They will make comparisons and contrasts between their lives and other students’ lives. The students will reflect on their own experiences and hopefully develop a curiosity about other students’ stories. They will develop a voice to share their own stories.
Concluding the project
Stayed tuned for a culminating celebration in December!
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