The primary students in Mrs. Damignani’s, Mrs. Filippelli’s and Mrs. Young’s classes have been participating in the Global Read Aloud. They have been reading picture books written by and illustrated by Monique Gray Smith and Julie Flett. Many of the books we have been reading together include Cree words in the text. We have been fortunate that another school has shared audio recordings with us so that we can hear these Cree words pronounced accurately.
The grade 1 students collected photographs of our school community and shared these pictures using Google Slides. It has been exciting having students from other schools look at our photos and add photos of their own. This collaboration has helped our students learn more about how others live.
The grade 2 students created a video to share thoughts and ideas about what they like to do with their grandparents. We will share this video and invite students from around the world to comment on our media production.
We still have 2 weeks to go and are hoping we have further opportunities to connect with other classes participating in this program.
Intermediate Classes
Several of our intermediate classes are reading Refugee written by Alan Gratz. This book is about three young refugees escaping their homeland in the hope of finding a new place to call home. Mme Watter’s class participated in a Mystery Hangout with a grade 7 class in Ohio. Students were assigned roles such as Think Tank, Questioners, Greeters, and Map Markers to effectively determine the location of the school we were connecting with. In the end it was a clue on a student’s sweatshirt that assisted us in identifying the state, city and school of our virtual visitors. We are hoping to connect with this class again to discuss and share thoughts and ideas about the book using a Padlet.
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