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Welcome Quad Blogging Buddies!

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Last year we tried Quad Blogging for the first time and had such a wonderful experience that we couldn’t wait to give it a try again this year.
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Quad Blogging was first thought of by Mr. Mitchell. It is where four classes form a partnership and spend time getting to know each other better through their blogs. Each class has a week to be featured and the other classes spend some time visiting that blog to learn more about that class, their school, and their community.

We will be teaming up with our Quad Blogging buddies from last year, starting this week!

Here is the schedule for our Quad Blogging:
* April 22nd – April 28th – Mrs. Watson’s 2/3 Class (British Columbia, Canada)
* April 29th-May 5th – Mrs. Ranney’s Class Blog (California, USA)
* May 6th – May 12th 2DD and 2MD Class Blog (Leopold, Australia)
* May 13th-May 19th – Mr. Avery’s Classroom Blog (Massachusetts, USA)

We are very excited to start things off and we hope you will have fun looking around our blog.  Here are a few posts that you might want to visit:

Spring Chickens
The Science Fair
New Friends

Look for a post all about our favourite spots in Sointula coming soon!

Our Skype Call with Mr. Avery’s Class

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Before spring break we had a chance to Skype with Mr. Avery and the students in his class. It was a lot of fun getting to know more about them. We got to see how our schools, towns, and provinces/states are similar and different.


Here are some of the things we thought were really interesting:
Lily-Our province is bigger than their state, but they have way more people than we do.
Sophie- MS has a lot of state symbols compared to our provincial symbols!
Fay-They only have 15 students in their class and we have 17
Jenny-They have 235 students in their school and we only have 45
Niall- Their tree is the American elm. We don’t have American elms in Sointula. Our tree is a Western Red Cedar.
Sahara-Their provincial mammal is the Right Whale. We don’t have Right whales, but we do have Orcas and Humpbacks.

Here are a few more cool facts we learned:
•British Columbia is larger than Massachusetts (944,000 square kilometers compared to 16,986 square kilometers).
•About 4,400,000 people live in British Columbia, but about 6,500,000 people live in Massachusetts.
•Sointula has a population of 800. Plympton has a population of about 2,600.

Thanks for a great call! We hope we can talk again sometime 🙂

A Super Special Call

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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 🙂

Quad Blogging Buddies

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Over the past year we have had the opportunity to meet and collaborate with other classes from around the world. Our blog has allowed us to open the doors of our classroom and flatten our classroom walls. Today we are all excited to be starting a Quad Blogging project with three other classes from other parts of the world.

Quad Blogging was first thought  of by Mr. Mitchell.  It is where four classes form a partnership and spend time getting to know each other better through their blogs. Each class has a week to be featured and the other classes spend some time visiting that blog to learn more about that class, their school, and their community.

We will be teaming up with three other classes, starting on Monday, March 7th.

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Here is the schedule for our Quad Blogging:

* March 7th – March 13th – Mrs. Ranney’s Class Blog (California, USA)
* March 14th – March 20th – Mr. Avery’s Classroom Blog (Massachusetts, USA)
* March 28th – April 3rd – 3DD Class Blog (Leopold, Australia)
* April 4th – April 10th – Mrs. Watson’s 2/3 Class (British Columbia, Canada)

This first week, we’ll be leaving comments for Mrs. Ranney’s Class. Make sure to leave quality comments. Proofread for proper capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. Don’t forget to let them know you’re from Mrs. Watson’s Class!

Head on over to Mrs. Ranney’s Class Blog!


You might like to check out these great posts:

The Great Kapok Tree
Puppet Project Presentations
Our Awe-inspiring African Adventure!
A Variety of Van Allsburgs!

A special thank you to Mrs. Yollis and Mrs. Morris for helping to set up our Quad and to Mr. Avery for the great picture of our blogs and the map!