Learning with Discovery Education

On Tuesday we took part in our first ever live event with Discovery Education Live.  We learned about a range of  amphibians from the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park.  While they were speaking to us (and over 1300 other classes at the same time) and showing us some special amphibians, we were listening careful and taking notes on our white boards.  It was a great way to keep us focussed on our learning.  Here are some photos of us hard at work.

They told us a lot of interesting facts, while showing us special amphibians for almost 25 minutes at which time they started answering questions that schools had sent in.  While this was going on the rest of the school was busy enjoying recess.  If you can believe it we watched, wrote, and learned right through recess!  It's true!

Here are what some of our boards looked like at the end of the session.

After the live broadcast Ms. Lirenman took us outside for our very own private recess.  When we returned we had a discussion about all the things we learned then we wrote posts for our blogs.  If you're curious you really should check them out.

Here are couple of our blog posts.

We really think you should check them all out though. Just follow the Individual Blog tab at the top of this page.

Learning on line just gets better and better every time we do it.

Deck the Halls

Today for the first part between recess and lunch we took part in the school wide "Deck the Halls".   We created personalize gingerbread people.  Here are some photos of us hard at work.

She Ran Away!

Oh no! Guess what? The gingerbread people we met  during our Google Hangout on Friday in Mrs. Sarchet's class RAN AWAY!  They both left quite a mess in Mrs. Sarchet and Mrs. Leech's school.  You can read more about it here on Mrs. Sarchet's class blog.  You can also read about it here on Mrs. Leech's blog.

Thankfully Mrs. Fadum sent out a tweet on twitter this morning saying that she found at least one of them at her  school. Thank goodness they are safe.  We sure hope Mrs. Fadum's class takes better care of them. We certainly don't want them to be eaten by a wolf.  You can read about the adventures in Mrs. Fadum's room here.

The Gingerbread Boy - Learning with Others

On Friday after recess we invited Mrs. Atkinson and Mrs. Morrison's grade one classes into our classroom to take part in a google hang out with Mrs. Sarchet, and Mrs. Leech's classes.  Mrs. Sarchet introduced us to her class' Gingerbread boy, and we also met Mrs. Leech's class' too.  Then Mrs. Sarchet read us a version of the Gingerbread Boy story.

Here are some photos from our google hangout.  There is even a little movie of Mrs. Sarchet reading to all of us.

We hope to connect again next week with these classes and hopefully a few more grade one classes in our school district.  Mrs. Sarchet and Mrs. Leech will be sharing their adventures with their gingerbread men.  We can't wait to hear what they get up to.

Creating our KidBlog Avatars

On Friday after our google hangout with Mrs. Sarchet, Mrs. Leech, Mrs. Atkinson, and Mrs. Morrison's grade one or grade one/two classes Ms. Lirenman suggested that we make avatars for our individual student blogs.  Here are some of the ones we created.  If you want to see others please check out our individual blogs.