One of the exciting aspects of blogging is the opportunity to be involved in global projects.
We try to choose projects that will fit in with our literacy outcomes as well as
enhancing our general education.
Global Maths Twitter Task Challenge
read about this project here
Colour Poems
Term 2, 2015
We wrote poems about the colours of the visible spectrum and shared them with other classes around the world via Twitter,
using the hashtag #clrpoem
Our World, Our Numbers
Term 1 and 2, 2013
The students were all from primary (elementary) classes from three different continents and five countries.
Mr Avery’s sixth grade class from Massachusetts, USA
Mrs Monaghan’s 3/4 class, Room with a View, from England
Mrs Morris and Miss Jordan’s grade four class, 4KM and 4KJ, from Victoria, Australia
Mrs McKenzie’s 2/3 class, B4, from New Zealand
Mrs Yollis’ 2/3 class from California, USA
Mr Salsich’s third grade class from Connecticut, USA
Mrs Watson’s K/1/2/3 class from Canada
View Our World, Our Numbers in a larger map
How did it work?
Students from all classes connected and collaborated by sharing their mathematical lives. This happened through the blog and involved a variety of media.
A different class led a mathematical topic every week or so, publishing posts and replying to comments. The other classes read the posts, published their own posts, and left blog comments.
The learning
Through blog posts, the students taught each other about different aspects of mathematics based on aspects of their own culture.
The learning continued in the commenting section where students, teachers and parents engaged in conversations to explore mathematical and cultural topics further.
Students gained an understanding of mathematics through the eyes of children in different countries and cultures. They made comparisons and contrasts between their lives and other students’ lives.
As the concluding project from Our World, Our Numbers classes shared Poetry with Maths:
The Tale Trail
Term 2 2012
Classes joined together to write and illustrate a story through their blogs.
It started with one class writing the first part of the story and posting it to their blog.
Then, the next class read the beginning of the story and added on to it through their blog.
We continued until we got to the last class.
They put the finishing touches on it and wrapped the whole story up!
Each class had 3 school days to work on their portion of the story.
At the bottom of each post, there are links to the parts of the story that had already been done as well as the next part of the story once was finished.
In order to read the whole thing, you’ll be taken on a journey through the blogs of all six classes.
Down below you’ll be able to find the dates around when each class posted their portion of the story. You can also see a map showing the locations of all the classes.
- May 9 – Mr. Salsich’s Class (Connecticut, USA)
- May 14 – Mrs. Yollis’ Class (California, USA)
- May 17 – Mrs. McKenzie’s Class (New Zealand)
- May 22 – Mr. Avery’s Class (Massachusetts, USA)
- May 25 – Mrs. Watson’s Class (British Columbia, Canada)
- May 30 – Mrs. Morris and Miss Jordan’s class (Australia)
Read Part 1 on Mr Salsich's class blog
Read Part 2 on Mrs Yollis' class blog
Read Part 3 on B4's blog
Read Part 4 on Mr Avery's class blog
Read Part 5 on Mrs Watson's class blog
Read Part 6-The Conclusion on Mrs Morris' and Miss Jordan's class blog
Thank you to our friend Mr Avery for organising this wonderful project.
Here is the whole story in one place:
(Press the play button on the slideshow below, and use the arrows to view each slide.)
Full of Beans!
Term 2 2012
We have joined some Canadian and American classes in a bean-growing experiment.
While it is spring for those classes, it is autumn for us!
We thought it would be fun to find out if we can make our window beans grow too!
Check out the 'Full of Beans' wiki.
The 'Eggsperiment'
In Term 1 2012 we joined with other classes to try
an egg experiment.
Read all about it in our posts here and here,
and on the Egg wiki here.
Our World, Our Stories
A project for Term 4, 2011, with some of our blogging buddies from USA, Canada, Australia, Ghana and Belize.
After seven busy weeks the finale of the project was a song 'Make New Friends'.
and a shared reading of
'Whoever you Are'
written by Mem Fox and illustrated by Leslie Staub.
As part of the week that we led during the Our World, Our Stories project we made this retelling of a well-known Maori legend, 'The Fish of Maui _Te Ika a Maui'.
Quad Blogging
We joined with our quad-blogging buddies
to put together this video explaining the quad-blogging concept.
StoryBirds with Canada
We had a lot of fun writing stories with the children in Mrs Watson's grade 2/3/ class in Canada.
Click here to
see the post and to read our stories.
Custom Glitter Text
Global Classroom 2011/2012 wiki
Check out the: Global Classroom wiki (2011) and Voicethread
Magnie the Whale visits from the Shetlands
Custom Glitter Text
These are the links we have to the classes we connected with through postcards.
Click here to read our posts about postcards!
Pirates of Room 4 -NZ (Miss Leakey is the creator of this project)
2KM and 2KJ - Australia
2MK - Australia
A Peek Inside- Australia
Windows into Learning -Australia
Mrs W at Harston- Australia
The Lion's Den-Carlton School
Year 3 Superstars - Australia
Miss Goodey and 3/4G -Australia
The Classroom Connection - Canada
Mrs Soltau-Hellers class - Canada
Burravoe School - Shetlands, Scotland
Hongwanji Mission School - Hawaii
4K, Merton School - USA
Techie Kids - USA
Tech-Taters - USA
Mrs Yollis and Grade 3 - USA
Lyudmila's Friends blog-Russia
Mrs Lynch and Rm 102 - Canada
Mrs Watson and Grade 2/3 - Canada
Rm 2 Kaipara Flats - NZ
Mrs Hembree and Bellbulldogreaders - USA
Hawes Community Primary School - England
Jenny Gallagher and Year 6 -Australia
Lauren Waller and Mimili Middle School - Australia
Jenny Goetz and 1G - Australia
Sharee Barry and 3/4B - Australia
Carla Saunders and Yr 7 English - Australia
Custom Glitter Text
Our Flat Stanley project with 2KM and 2KJ in Australia was such a lot of fun.
Read about it here.
