Today we Skyped with Mrs. Donnellon’s Grade 1 class in New Jersey. We were really excited to be their first Skype call. They are studying communities and wanted to find out more about our community and compare it to theirs.

Justin and Oceana did a great job of writing down the information that the classes shared and Jordan tried back channeling for the first time. Niall was our photographer. Here is what we found out:

*Their community is much larger than ours is. They have 10 elementary schools and 2 highschools. We only have one elementary school with 47 students and no highschool.
*The have a lot of police officers in their community. We have no police officers in our town.
*They have firemen and so do we.
*They have lots of traffic lights and lines on their roads. We only have stop signs.
*They have a lot of big buildings in their community. They have some apartment buildings that are 20 stories high. We have one 2 story hotel.
*There are 18 students in their class and 16 students in our class.
*They eat their lunch in the room where they have gym. None of their students go home for lunch. We eat our packed lunches in our classroom or go home for lunch.
*We both like to go swimming in lakes and many students in both classes have cats and dogs for pets.
*They are not allowed to hunt in their community
*They have bears in their community and we sometimes do if one swims over to our island.

Thanks so much for Skyping with us!