Halloween costumes, YouTube sensations, and a love of the restaurant Subway --- though 6th graders may live across North America, they still seem to have many inerests in common. My 6th grade students got the chance to Skype with 6th grade students in Canada today.
We discovered that more students in my class eat Canadian bacon than Canadian students. Our Canadian friends speak French and English and love a food called poutine (french fries with melted cheese and gravy), though they also enjoy pizza and cheeseburgers jut like us. Catholic schools in Ottawa, Canada, which is north of the state of New York, are paid for by the government. The students chuckled as a student from Canada did the "Gangnam Style" dance from YouTube, and several of my students joined in.
I'm thankful to the Global Read Aloud project for bringing these students together to celebrate reading! I would love to expand our connections even more next year if we do the project again.
And a compliment for the Kansas kids: Mr. Fischer (the teacher of the Canadian class) shared how he often uses my students' blogs as an example of what blog posts should look like because of the deep thinking and writing students were putting into them. Way to go, students!
Students got a kick out of waving to one another! Look at those smiles. :)
We brainstormed questions ahead of time about things we wanted to know.
Moderators asked our questions and also helped answer the questions the other class had for us. Due to technical difficulties, we made a laptop screen work!
I love how intrigued they look! Hopefully the students enjoyed their time in English class today. 
No comments:
Post a Comment