Today after Daily 5 in the afternoon, we went to Phys. Ed. and had Operation: Halloween. Our Gym teacher, Ms. Beach, set up a bunch of fun Halloween stations. - Cam H.
At Operation: Halloween, there were two TV's that had pumpkin, witch, alien, and cyclops faces popping up. We ran away from the witch because she said she would cook us! - Robyn
At the last recess, we stayed in because another teacher was reading us a book on Skype. We had our own recess after that. - Hailey M.
After lunch, we had a new helper in our classroom. Her name is Ms. Evens. - Jenna
We did Number of the Day. We shared with our classmates a lot of crazy number sentences. Most of us don't use times or 'groups of' yet. - Gal
It was a big day in Room 18 today, as the students got to use Skype in the classroom for the first time! For those of you who aren't familiar with Skype, it's a program that allows you to have real-time video calling to any other computer in the world that also has Skype installed, as well as a video camera. I got a webcam a couple of weeks ago, and tried out Skype for myself earlier this week with my friend Erin Malksoke, who teaches a Grade 1/2 class at Dr. F.W.L. Hamilton School (http://200awesomedays.blogspot.com/). Today was a big test though, as first, I used Skype to read a book to Mrs. Malkoske's class (I read 'Pumpkin Circle: The story of a garden' by George Levenson to them), while my students were at Phys. Ed. Afterward, when the students came back to the class, Mrs. Malkoske read 'The Incredible Book Eating Boy' by Oliver Jeffers to us. We're looking forward to Skyping with Mrs. Malkoske's class next week, and talking to them about setting criteria for making good Skype calls (Mrs. Malkoske's class has been using Skype for a while, so they're pros at this!). Isn't technology cool?!
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