|
News Flash!
We have joined the "Stellaluna's Friends" Project. Along with 25 other classes from around the world we are going to research and share information about Bats.
The project's objectives are:
To develop research skills in young children.
To showcase student work on the world wide web.
To learn facts about bats and dispel myths.
To learn to appreciate bats and their importance to our world.
To learn about different kinds of bats by visiting the pages of
participants.
To participate in an online collaborative project.
To view Room Three's work for the Bat Project after March 31st 1998 go to KiwiKidzstella
Teachers looking for a great unit plan on bats can visit Sherrye's Kindergarten Page. Be sure to check her link to "Bats are Beautiful" for some really good resources. Click here for my own "We've Gone Batty" thematic plan.
May 1998
We have joined up with Francis W Parker School in Chicago for an E Pals Project called "Our Place"
June 1998
Some of us have been writing web pages. Click the bear to view our work.
Pandas.
Helicopters.
August 1998
We worked hard on a reading/science information technology project. Click on the bear to view our work.
Hedgehogs.
September 29th 1998.
Big News!
We have just received news from Loogootee School in America to say that we will be having a visitor!
Prickles, the International Hedgehog, is coming to visit us. We will be the first class to receive him. We know he will love being in New Zealand. We can't wait to meet him!
Prickles will probably visit schools in South Africa,UK, Sweden and Canada.
For information about the project click here.
October 1st 1998.
More News!
Greenie has just E mailed to say that Little Kiwi is coming home again! (Little Kiwi is the Kiwi that Room Five mailed to Chicago at the end of the "Our Place Project")
Little Kiwi is coming home with stories and pictures about what life in Chicago is like.
We have some exciting things happening in class this term!
We are sending the story "A Lion in the Meadow" off to South Africa with Prickles when he leaves New Zealand. You will find the planning and some of the work we did based on this story if you click on the bear.
November 7th 1998.
Prickles has arrived! We were really excited to see her. She is doing some exciting things here in New Zealand.
Click the bear to learn about her adventures.
8th November 1998.
|
|
|
