We had a visit from some amazing primates last week! We learned a lot about what they like to eat, how they live, and why they act the way they do. We took a lot of pictures and are just finishing a video which we will add below as soon as it is finished. The amazing thing about this assembly was that we invited Ms. Bauer's class in South Carolina, and Mrs. You's class in Ontario to join us using google hangouts! Our teacher used her phone to send the video to the other classes. The whole time we were wondering if they could really see and hear it very well. It was so fun to get a tweet from Ms. Bauer that included a picture of her class watching on their promethean board! It was cool to see our gym and guest speaker coming through to them! We are so glad that she always remembers to take pictures! Our teacher says these teachers are great because they are always willing to take risks and try new things to help their students! It was a very exciting day! Makayla made a video using pictures and videos that she and Mrs. Vought took. Enjoy!
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We have had two twitter chats about the book Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper. It was fun to tweet. This was new for us. We talked with different classes about the book. Teachers would ask a question i.e..Q1 "What is your favorite character and why?" #GRAOOMM, and we answer A1____. Our teacher said that this is usually how teachers chat on twitter because it keeps things organized. We had to learn a few things before we started like we have to carefully choose our words because we only have 140 characters to say what we want to say. We learned that the way to say that you liked something was to "favorite" it by clicking on the star on that tweet. We also learned a few things once the chat started. We learned to introduce our class with the first tweet. We learned that we could answer a question, reply to someone else's answer, or both. We learned how to watch for tweets to us so that we could reply back. We learned that the chat can move quickly and it can be hard to keep up with all the questions and comments. We learned that sometimes when you are having a "side conversation" with someone you can miss a question or two. Mrs. Tharp says that is alright because it is about connecting and communicating with one another, not just answering all the questions - we could do that by ourselves. We learned how to end a chat. Finally we learned that it is a very fun way to connect with lots of students as one time! We connected with classes in: South Carolina, Ontario, Quebec, Wisconsin, and New York. Students from Austrailia were able to get online and answer the questions the next day. Their teacher, Mr. Sky, put it all together in a story. You can read what we are thinking about the book so far. We have our own class twitter account now! One of our teacher's twitter friends, Ms. You @PeelMzYou, helped her set it up. She teaches in Ontario, Canada and her class has an account, @DolphinlCOM, so we had someone to tweet with right away! Thank you!
We also connected with Ms. Bauer, @girltraveling, right away. Our classes had a mystery Skype before the Global Read Aloud started in September. We were hoping that they would want to Skype again and talk about the book Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, so we asked them.
Hooray! Ms. You's class wants to Skype too and we are really excited about that! We are lucky that our teacher has so many great teacher friends. It's been a very exciting year and it's only October! We can't wait to see what will happen next! You can follow us, @MrsTharpsClass, and watch us learn.
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