Today we had the opportunity to share a story with the other side of the world.
Our class Skyped Kelly, our teacher's friend who lives in America. It's was so much fun! We read a book to her called The Watertower by Gary Crew and Steven Woolman, and we made a soundtrack to it with the objects in our pencil cases. We also performed the poem Please Resist Me by Luka Lesson, an Australian poet. We finished off with our song, Little Talks, that we are going to perform in the assembly coming up. Finally we asked some questions about America and some other random things! It was an amazing experience and hopefully we can do it again!
-Chelsea, Luke, and Dylan
I think this was a good talk to Kelly, although I didn't get to do much but I really think she liked it. She was smiling when we was singing. She was pretty funny. It was fascinating to learn what the time was. It was also funny when we was talking to her and her cat was laying in front of the camera when we was talking and our class didn't know then it disappeared LOL. The only thing I personally didn't like was the sound. We need to get that fixed next time we talk and I think we also need to talk to Kelly in some other room because of the other class rooms. It also was fascinating to know that with Skype you could talk ALL the way to America. It was a good morning.
-Alex & Jack M
After we read our book, poem, and performed our song, we asked some questions and Kelly answered them. Brooklyn asked "Have you written any books yet?" and Kelly said she had written some but they weren't published yet. Faith asked "Have you eaten from a hot-dog stand?" and Kelly said "Yes, I have lots of times before."
Thank you to Kelly to and most of all thanks to our teacher.
-Gerard & Brooklyn