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Two Special Visitors

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On Thursday two very special visitors arrived in our classroom. Our friends, the Super 7 Scoopers from New Zealand, sent their class mascot Trev for a visit. He made a couple stops before coming to see us. We can’t wait to teach him about life on our island before sending him off on his next big adventure. Trev brought all sorts of cool things with him. He has two great bandanas, some pins, New Zealand tattoos, a book about Dunedin and his own scrapbook to keep track of his adventures.
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Gill the goldfish also arrived from our new friends the Gill-Villeans in Ontario, Canada. Gill brought us maple syrup and maple taffy lollipops. On Wednesday we are going to have a class pancake breakfast so that we can sample the maple syrup. Oceana has taken Gill home this weekend and we can’t wait to find out all about their visit on Monday.
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We hope that Trev and Gill will have fun with us and will keep each other company in the classroom each night when we go home.

What do you think Trev and Gill might do when we go home for the evening? Maybe we will write, The Adventures of Trev and Gill đŸ™‚

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 đŸ™‚