WORD WALL - WHAT DOES THAT SOUND LIKE?

Today we did WORD WALL for the first time this year.

We LOVE doing Word Wall.

Doing crazy actions, cheers and songs makes learning to read and spell our words more fun and exciting.

Our favourite cheers are OPERA, BOXING, PUMPING IRON, and BATTER UP.

Here is a post some of us made last year that explains our Word Wall routine.

This year we'd like to share with you what we SOUND like during WORD WALL.

Here is the first in a series of short PODCASTS that will introduce you to some of our chants.

IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR SOME NEW CHEERS WE COULD DO, PLEASE LET US KNOW IN A COMMENT OR EMAIL US AT 2mgems@gmail.com

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VOICES OF THE WORLD

In October last year, the those of us who were in 1M joined a

worldwide, collaborative project - VOICES of the WORLD.

This exciting project was created to unite children around the world using voice and sound.
Each month, using a different Web 2.0 tool, our task was to create an audio file that then became part of a VOICES of the WORLD wiki.

SEPTEMBER's task was to make a VOKI to introduce yourself to the other schools. You can see 1M's here
and you can see others from around the world here.

In OCTOBER, we used ANIMOTO to share our National Anthem.
You can watch everyone's here. We are at the top of the menu on the right hand side.

For NOVEMBER's task, everyone had to sing 'TWINKLE, TWINKLE' and use a PAINT program and ONE TRUE MEDIA to create a slide show to go with it. You will find all the slideshows here.

We missed out on the DECEMBER task as we had already finished school for the year but you can listen to all the other schools singing 'JINGLE BELLS' here.

As the 2M Gems, we are still part of this project and we came back to school just in time to participate in JANUARY's task.

This month we all contributed to a VOICETHREAD about food, clothes, musical instruments and sports. We recorded our part yesterday. It was an exciting way to start the year. You can watch and listen here.

CAN YOU IDENTIFY WHO SPOKE FROM 2M?

WE FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT SOME WORDS ARE THE SAME, WHETHER THEY ARE IN ENGLISH OR ANOTHER LANGUAGE. CAN YOU NAME THE WORDS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT?

Let us know your thoughts in a comment.

MEET OUR BLOGGING BUDDIES

Last year, when some of us were in 1M, we became blogging buddies with Mrs Cassidy's Year 1 class in Moose Jaw. We'd leave comments on their class blog and on some of the children's pages too.

Those of us who are new to Mrs M's class don't know where Moose Jaw is and we imagine that those of you who are new to our blog are also asking "Where's that?" So here is a map Mrs M made last year.

You can see where we are on the map.
Click and drag with your mouse to find out where Moose Jaw is.


Did you guess CANADA?
Well, you are correct!
Mrs M told us that Mrs Cassidy and her class have been eagerly waiting for us to return to school so that we can start blogging and learning more about each other. They have still been at school while we have been on holidays.

Today when we looked at their blog, we learnt something about them.
Not all of Mrs Cassidy's class was at school today because it was MINUS 49 DEGREES!!!
We can't imagine how COLD that is!
Read all about it here.

We discovered that our temperature was 29 degrees ABOVE zero and the temperature in Moose Jaw was 49 degrees BELOW zero.
CAN YOU WORK OUT THE DIFFERENCE IN TEMPERATURE?

WELCOME TO 2008

Welcome to our blog for 2008.


The Little Gems are back - but we are not so little any more...we are now in Year 2 and we have some new members!

We had so much fun last year as the 1M GEMS, blogging about our learning and everything that happened in our room. There were many surprises, we learnt how to do things we never thought we could and we connected with people all around the world!.


This is the start of our blogging journey for 2008.
We don't know where we will go but we know the journey will be exciting.
We need you to be part of it so...



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