When I was in Hong Kong I met Mrs. Caldwell from Oak Lake School in Manitoba, in Canada. She teaches a kindergarten class there. After meeting me and learning about the blog I was keeping she thought that her students might like to have their own mascot. Read what they wrote below.
After attending the Worldwide Microsoft Innovative Teachers' Forum in Hong Kong last week, I was inspired to create a blog for my Kindergarten class. The Kilvemnon School blog and Piggley were the inspiration for this project. My Kindergarten students and I viewed their blog, and they were very excited to get our own class mascot and have our mascot write about his adventures on our own blog.
Today we made a graph on the Smart Board in an effort to decide on our mascot. We narrowed it down to Canadian animals such as a moose, chipmunk, beaver, buffalo, and wolf.
After we purchase our mascot, our first task will be to learn how to use the digital camera. My students are only five years old, and many have not used a camera independently. Once we are able to use the digital camera, we will take turns taking our mascot home and photographing his activities. As a class we will upload the pictures to our blog and write about the mascot's visit to a student's home.
Isn't that brilliant?! We hope that our students can keep in contact through myself, Piggley and Barkley Beaver! Check out Barkley below!
Log on to Oak Lake's Blog to find out more!!
See you soon,
Piggley. Oink!!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Oak Lake Manitoba
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Wow! We are very excited to be on your blog. Barkley Beaver is having a huge day at our school. He was outside our door, freezing cold. Then we voted on his name and made a graph. He met all the teachers and students in our school. He ate lunch with us. Now he is in Virden meeting a famous author with the Grades 5 and 6 class!
We would love Piggley to come for a visit. Maybe Barkley and Piggley could do an exchange sometime for a month!
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