9-9 Skype Marathon

The very clever children from 5A, The School at Columbia University put together our photos in a video - its very cool.

Collaborating with a school in America

9-9 Skype Marathon

We will be skyping at 10 oclock. 
Questions we will be focusing on are - 

Classroom

What is great about your classroom community?

How do you build community in your classroom?

eg activities that you do at the beginning of the year to build community

Why is community important to your class?

Do you have classroom rules - who makes them?

What kind of classroom expectations do you have?

What do you think a successful classroom community looks like?

What do you to do maintain the sense of community in your class as you go through the year?

School

How do  you create community as a school?

What kind of community events does your school have 

Skyping our Quad Buddies - Cambridge School in Melbourne

Today we skyped our Quad Buddies in Melbourne Australia.

• there school is bigger than ours , 800 children, to our 560
• its a lot warmer over in Melbourne
• they have a special computer teacher as well as their own class teacher
• both classes have class mascots 
• there are 25 children in their class, we have 27
• we thought it was quite funny that we were just finishing school and they still had 2 hours to go.
• some class levels have an ipad or laptop per child and they get to take them home!!!!
• They have more playgrounds than we do 
• their school is 20 years old, ours is nearly 150! 

Thanks for skyping with us, it was fun. Hopefully we can do it again sometime.