Thank you Mrs. Leakey in New Zealand for starting this wonderful project. We have received 12 postcards so far and need to send a few more out this week. It is fun to learn something new from each card and make connections and new friends. I put together a short movie to show everyone the [...]
Entries from April 27, 2011
Happy Easter
April 23, 2011 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
I just found this fun egg decorating game on Ms. Dowling’s blog – A Peek Inside – in Australia I hope everyone has a nice Easter with their families. Enjoy all your chocolate and jelly beans!
Clapping Games
April 23, 2011 · 25 Comments · Uncategorized
Many of our blogging friends have been posting about playground games. I thought it would be a great idea for Grade 1 to learn how to do the clapping game Miss Mary Mack. This is a poem, too, and fits right in with what we are working on in class. Miss Mary Mack 1 from [...]
montreal monster jam
April 22, 2011 · 13 Comments · Philip
by Philip I went to the olempic stadeum for monster jam. My dad and Charles came with me. It was cool. Monster trucks are realy big trucks. it was realy loud. They were fast. Monster Trucks from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo. I made a monster truck blabberize, too. You can make one at blabberize [...]
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Blogging Challenge Results
April 19, 2011 · 18 Comments · Uncategorized
The Blogging Challenge ended on Friday, April 15th. Congratulations Everyone! Today we celebrated all our efforts by having cupcakes, certificates, candy and the 5 top commenters were taken to McDonalds. I kept track of comments each day for 3 weeks. We had a rule that only one comment would count per day. Everyone made at [...]
Tags: Project·Reading·technology·writing
Visitors From Australia
April 18, 2011 · 16 Comments · Uncategorized
On Friday afternoon Grade 1 had visitors from Australia. We are part of a research project with Concordia University in Montreal using Abracadabra and ePearl (a digital portfolio). Vanitha Pillay from Concordia brought Helen Harper and Janet Helmer from Darwin, Australia) to see how we use ABRA in our classroom. Each week we use ABRA [...]
Tags: ABRA·Australia·ePearl·technology
Happy Birthday, Bianca
April 13, 2011 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
Bianca is a third grade student in Australia. She is a great blogging friend to our class and has been helping us learn how to comment. We all hope you have a very special birthday, Bianca. from all your friends in Room 102 Happy Birthday, Bianca from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo.
Update on Postcard Project
April 9, 2011 · 37 Comments · Uncategorized
We have received 4 postcards so far and have been excited to learn “where in the world” they are coming from. We looked at google earth the other day and located the four places. Thanks to our new friends for sending us such lovely postcards. 1. Arbroath, Scotland 2. Shetland, Scotland – Shetland is an [...]
Our School is in a T.V. Comercial
April 8, 2011 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized
Eric, Leo’s Dad gave us the link to a fantastic video on youtube. It is a commercial that was taped last Fall to promote Public Schools of Quebec. They chose a former student of our School Board who is a rap star to lead the video. The Music teacher and choir are from our school. [...]
Thank You, Bianca
April 2, 2011 · 40 Comments · Uncategorized
We have been fortunate to develop a wonderful friendship with Bianca and her Mum who live in Australia. We have done this through blogging. Bianca was in Miss McGeady’s grade 2 (now Mrs. Morris) class last year. They had a blogging comment challenge and Bianca and her Mum started visiting our blog and leaving comments. [...]
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