We love quad blogging and thought it would be fantastic if we could Skype with our new friends in Mrs. Ranney’s class. We had a great time getting to know each other better and learned so many cool facts about their school, community, state, and country.   Jordan and Sahara did an amazing job of back channeling all the great information our quad buddies shared with us.

Here are some of the things we learned from our friends in California:

• California’s population is 8x larger than British Columbia’s.
• British Columbia is 2x the size of California.
• There are 9x more people living in the United States than in Canada even though Canada is a bigger country.
• Their community has a population of 23,058 and our population is only 800.
• There are 600 students in their K-5 school and we only have 45 student in grades K-7.
• In our class we have 17 grade 2/3 students.  Mrs. Ranney’s class of 22 students is one of 5 grade 3 classes in their school.

• Their state flower is the California poppy and ours is the Pacific Dogwood
• Their state tree is the California redwood and ours is the Western Red Cedar
• Their state bird is the quail and ours is the Steller’s Jay
• Their state animal is the California grizzly bear, even though the only grizzly in their state is on their flag.  Our provincial mammal is the Kermode Bear.

• Mrs. Ranney’s class have all seen coyotes walking around their neighborhood.  We don’t have coyotes, but we might have a few wolves and occasionally a bear swims over to our island.
• Both classes love to play games outside.  We both like some of the same games, but have some new ones it would be fun to show each other how to play.
• We both like a lot of the same foods.

Thanks for the the wonderful call today!  We hope we can Skype again 🙂