Showing posts with label Bendigo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bendigo. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2009

SKYPING WITH BENDIGO

Today we skyped Mrs W and her class in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. They are 7 and 8 years old and are in year 2 just like us.
It was their first time skyping and we were excited to be skyping another class in Australia.

View Bendigo VIC in a larger map

We learnt that they don't have a river or beaches. We told them about the view of the bay and islands from our classroom. We have lots of water, especially when it floods but in Bendigo it hardly ever rains. They have been in drought for a long time.

Their school is slightly bigger than ours but they have the same number of children in their class as we do. They go home at 3:30 and we go home at 3 o'clock. It is a very long day for them!

Some of the kids live on farms and some of them live in homes like ours. We discovered that we enjoy the same sports and learning about the same things but there's so much more we'd like to know so we are going to become email buddies.
We can't wait to connect with Mrs W and her class again!