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Traditional American Song: “Take Me Out To The Ball Game”
Nov 30th
Connecticut, USA
We love listening to Mrs. Yollis’ class sing This Land is Your Land, 2KM & 2KJ singing G’Day, G’Day and B4 singing Haere Mai. It is so fun to hear different songs from around the world!
We are going to share a short song that has been sung at American baseball games for over 70 years. If you’ve ever been to a baseball game in the U.S.A. you’ve probably heard this song before! We hope you enjoy it:
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We sing this song a lot at our school assemblies, and the line, “Root, root, root for the home team“ always gets a little bit loud! When you sing this song, you typically say the name of your favorite team in place of the words “home team”.
So at our assemblies some of us sing “root, root, root for the Red Sox!” while others sing “root, root, root for the Yankees!” because these are the two most popular baseball teams where we live.
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What are the popular home sports teams where you live?
What is your favorite professional sport to cheer for?
What did you think of the song? Do you have any questions about it?
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Our Local Environment: Stonington, Connecticut
Nov 20th
We loved learning about the environments of Sointula, Canada and Reefton, New Zealand so much that we decided to make a video about our environment also.
Connecticut, USA
We live in the town of Stonington in the state of Connecticut. We are right on the Atlantic coast between New York City and Boston. Some of us live in the village of Mystic which is part of Stonington.
We hope you enjoy the video!
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(If you have trouble watching the video on the blog, you can view it here on SchoolTube.)
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How is your environment similar to ours?
How is it different?
Connecticut Clam Chowder
Nov 10th
Connecticut, USA
Here in Connecticut we eat some of the same things that our friends around the world eat, but we also have some dishes that are special to this area. One of them is New England Clam Chowder.
Connecticut is part of “New England” – a group of states that were settled by the English way back in the 1600′s. New England includes the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
The States of "New England"
Clam chowder is a dish that people have been eating in New England for hundreds of years. “Chowder” is a type of thick soup that usually has seafood and milk or cream in it. Since we live so close to the ocean, lots of people eat chowder here.
Last weekend, a few of the students got together at a friend’s house to make some traditional New England Clam Chowder!
Here are some pictures showing some of the steps:
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Peeling the potatoes
Dicing the potatoes - they are hard!
Pouring in the clam sauce
Ready to eat - rich and creamy!
Mmm, mmm! That was tasty!
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Here is a link to the New England clam chowder recipe that was used.
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Have you ever had clam chowder?
Would you like to try it?
Are there special soups where you live?
Recess in Connecticut
Nov 3rd
We have really enjoyed learning about recess and lunch activities in Australia and New Zealand!
We wanted to share some of the things we do during recess here in Connecticut, USA.
Connecticut, USA
Our lunch time is pretty short, only 30 minutes, so we will just focus on recess. Here is a video about some of the things we enjoy during recess.
(If you have any trouble watching the video on the blog, here it is on SchoolTube.)
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Thanks for watching!
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?
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