Monster
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Myanmar
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Sara
Stoolman and John Doerfler, 3rd grade, Yangon
International School (YIS)
School
web: http://www.yismyanmar.com/
-- Skype:
Seriously13 Applications
on the iPad: Monster Hunt, Wicked
Camera, Alien Invasion, Monster Truck, Haunted House, Spooky Birds, Monster
Mash Music, Talking Skeleton, Monster Firefox |
Taiwan
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Mr. Dziedzic’s 1st
Grade, Kang Chiao Bilingual School, New Taipei City, Taiwan Latitude: 25° 03'N -- Longitude:
121° 30'W We are local when we learn and
share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because we
share ideas with people we've never seen before. If our Monster could use any
kind of technology, it would be teleportation because he could use
it to meet people around the world. If the passport is still
available, we would like that. We can't wait to get started! Web Site: http://qs-classweb.kcbs.ntpc. |
Russia
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Mrs.Kazakova’s
Class, 4th
grade, Abanskaya School 3 – Aban, Russia Hi from Russia! Our students are interested in what schools are like in other
countries. We want to improve our English. We enjoy Internet
projects and are looking forward to this great project. |
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Our class
teacher is Mrs.Tarasevich and her skype
is – tlv20091. We like
our school and one of our favorite subjects is English. Our hobbies are
volleyball, skiing, roller skating, surfing the net, dancing and playing
musical instruments. 5 students of our class study at musical school
(piano, accordion, and guitar) lots of students go to sport school
(volleyball, boxing, skiing) Girls go
dancing for 4 years. Boys like wood crafts. We like to have parties at our
classroom and every year we have Halloween party with a new monster. Our
Monster – 2010 is still living in our classroom. We are going to make a
friend monster for it this year. We would like to make friends with classes
around the world. Our blog is http://welcometoaban.blogspot.com Our
school site is www.abanschool3.ucoz.ru |
Canada
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| Ms. VanMaarion and Mrs. Quance --
Grade One (we have a class of 40 grade one students, 2 full time
teachers in a team teaching environment) Iron
Ridge Elementary, Blackfalds Alberta, Canada High Temperature in the summer +28 degrees Celsius, Low Temperature in the Winter (Dec-March) -40 degrees Celsius!!! website/blog: [http://www.irec.wolfcreek.ab. ]http://www.irec.wolfcreek.ab. blog which is in the process of being created. The picture we have attached is our class on "Green Dress-up Day!" Sincerely, Ms. JoAnne VanMaarion |
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Nathalie
Roy - grades 5 (9-10 year olds). We live in Kanata, Ontario,
Canada. We are situated at: 45°
25' 0" N / 75°
42' 0" W We have 4 seasons
that are very different. In Canada, we use the metric system which
means we use Celsius. In the summer temperatures are in the high
20s - with a lot of humidity. In the winter we can get as cold as
-25 - + the windshield factor. Our weather is somewhat similar to
northern Michigan... maybe a little colder. This project will
be perfect for our class as there are monsters everywhere! Our
classroom has a monster theme!
We
are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are Global,
everything changes because:
If
our monster could use any kind of technology, it would be... because...
Our school website
can be found at: https://sites.google.com/a/ |
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We
live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are a grade 2 class
at Harold Hatcher Elementary School. Our teacher is Ms. Nairn.
Our longitude and latitude is 49.8833 N, 97.1500 W. Our high
temperature in winter (December-ish) -23 C (-9F) and in the summer
(July-ish) is 26C (79F). Our
teacher rocks! We have a map of the world and a map of Canada that
we use to search for different places that we connect with. We
have tables not desks in our class. There are 23 of us. Twitter: @georgettenairn |
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| Hi we're from George Lee School
and are in reading groups with Ms. Brown. We're in grades 4-6 and not
all in the same class. We're really excited to be part of the Monster
Project because we're never worked on a collaborative project before.
We're also going to start blogging for the first time so keep
checking our blog for new posts. We'll be posting writing and
information about the books we're reading in our groups. Kimberly
Brown, Teacher |
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About Our Class: We
will have fun making the monster. We are a grade 1 class. We
go to Bernie Wolfe. We have 8 boys and 11 girls in our class. We are local when we
learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes
because… there are people we don’t know and other kids we can learn
from. If our Monster could use
any kind of technology it would be an iPod touch because you can do
almost anything with it. If our Monster could use
any kind of technology it would be a DS so they would have something to
play. Ms.
Matsumoto’s Grade 1, Bernie Wolfe Community School, Winnepeg,
Manitoba, Canada | smatsumoto@retsd.mb.ca |
England
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Hello from Class 4, Mr Humble’s group from St Oswald’s School in Burneside England. We are 9, 10 and 11 year olds who are very keen to get going in this year’s Monster Project. This will be the fifth monster from Mr Humble’s Class. You can find out more about us on our wiki (http://humbleclass.wikispaces.org or our new school website at http://www.st-oswalds.cumbria.sch.uk). Latitude
- 54.3556 N, This
photo of us was taken last week when we went on a four mile hike in the
pouring rain to see our hero Bradley Wiggins compete in the Tour Of Britain
Cycle Race … we got very wet as you can see. If any other monster makers
want to get in touch and maybe have a game of Internet Chess with us,
email Mr Humble now on jhumble@st-oswalds.cumbria.sch.uk |
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Hello from Ms. Morris’
Class 3 at St. Oswald's School in Burneside,
England! There are 23
of us in Class 3 aged between 7 and 9. Latitude
- 54.3556 N, |
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Hello from Miss Allder’s
class! We are Class 2 from St.Oswald’s
School in Kendal, UK. We are a class of 26 children and we are aged
between 5 and 7. We loved taking part in the Monster Project last year
and are very excited about getting involved and designing the nose this
year. Nose description: Long,
purple pointed nose with massive, hairy nostrils and lots of red spots.
The nose also has lots of disgusting, green snot dripping out of it. Thanks, Kimberley Allder |
Web: http://www.st-oswalds.cumbria.sch.uk |
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We are Class One at St Oswald’s CE Primary School in Burneside, Cumbria, England (Latitude - 54.3556 N, Longitude -2.7628 W) We are the Reception class which means we are all 4 years old and have just started school. Our teacher is Miss Smethurst. We like to play all day, even in the rain (and it rains a lot here in Cumbria). It is warm and sunny in the summer (and rainy too) and it sometimes snows in the winter (when it’s not raining!). At home and school we learn and play and
share. By communicating with other children across the world, we find
out more about other people in other places. If there are any other 4
year olds out there, we would love to get in touch by email ( csmethurst@st-oswalds.cumbria. |
North
Carolina
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We are Mrs. Berkman's 5 Core Connections classes of 5th graders at Voyager Academy - 105 kids in all. Core Connections is an informational reading and writing class with a lot of technology and hands on project time! We will be building 5 monsters using the part descriptions this year. Voyager Academy is in Durham, North Carolina, USA and is located at 35.9939° N, 78.8989° W. We've been doing a lot with latitude and longitude because we've been tracking Hurricanes and Tropical Storms in the Atlantic Ocean. Our average High Temperature in the summer is 87° F and our average Low Temperature in the winter is 27 ° F. We
use ClassBlogmeister and this will link you to our main page: http://classblogmeister.com/ |
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Hello! We are Mrs.
Baker's 4th grade reading class at Valdese Elementary School in
Valdese North Carolina, United States. Our latitude and
longitude are: 35.7406N, 81.5633W. The high temperatures around
here are usually in the 90's but because of humidity, it feels much
hotter! The low temperatures around here are usually in the teens
and twenties. But it has been colder than that before. We
are a small class of 6 students. Mrs. Baker teaches 3rd,
4th, and 5th grade reading classes. Because she teaches all three
grades, she sees a smaller number of students. In our other
classes, like math and science, we have around 25 students. Our
school has over 400 students. We are really excited to
participate in this project and getting to know more about our other
monster makers! (1)
We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL,
everything changes because...... there
are a bunch of people who bring different experiences and
knowledge. We can take that stuff and learn a lot more from each
other. Our Class Website: http://www.burke.k12.nc.us/schools/ves/cbaker/Pages/default.aspx |
Connecticut
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The Brainwaves are second graders in Bridgeport, CT USA. Some of us were born in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. Our favorite subject is gym and our favorite super hero is Spiderman. Our teacher, Mr. Greenberg is a real magician.
No kidding. He really is. |
Florida
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| Mrs. Gail Voyles,
2nd Grade, Saint Edward's School, Vero
Beach, Florida, United
States of America -- Latitude:
27.6N Longitude: 80.4W, Average
High Temperature: 82 F Average Low Temperature: 62 F
We’re very excited to join
The Monster Project this year. I’m sorry that I was not included
in the photo. I didn't realize that you wanted the teacher in
the picture until after we'd made a trek down to our dock to take the
picture. I can send another including myself at a later
date, if needed. With
great anticipation, Gail
Voyles |
California
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Hello Fellow
Monster Makers, Mr. Simonsen and the 6th
Grade @ Paige. |
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Cupertino is a diverse community to live in with many different cultures and languages. We enjoy learning about everyone! Lastly we are not allowed to show student faces online so we are working on finding a creative way to post a class picture :) |
Wisconsin
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Kylie Daemmrich, Fourth Grade, St Mary's Visitation Parish School, Elm Grove, Wisconsin. We have 26 nine and ten
year old 4th graders this year at St Mary’s Visitation School, seven are
girls and nineteen are boys! This is the second year we are building
a monster and we’re focusing on incorporating math concepts while
we build. Our latitude is
43◦2’35”N (43.0430679) and our longitude is 88◦4’44”W
(-88.078978). Our school is located in a suburb of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee’s average high temperature is 80◦ and the low is
16◦. We have four seasons and are just now changing from hot
and wet summer months to cool and dry autumn months. We have summers
off at our school. |
Louisiana
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Tina Fink, 5th grade math
& science, Our Lady Queen of Heaven School in Lake
Charles, Louisiana. You can find us at 30.12 degrees N Latitude and 93.22 W Longitude. Our summertime average high temp. is about 98 degrees. It gets really warm here. 1. "...but
when we are global, everything changes because we are different
cultures sharing all of our different ideas with one another. 2. "If our
monster could use any kind of technology it was use a robot because
robots would help him get good ideas and help him build stuff. |
Maine
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Stephanie Finley’s 4th
grade, Brixham Montessori Friends School, York, Maine:
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Massachusetts
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Maureen
Gibbons’ 3rd Grade, Jaworek Elementary School, Marlborough,
Massachusetts Marlborough
has always been a prosperous and industrial town. In the 19th
century, there were shoe factories. Technology has been a big enterprise
beginning in the late 20th century. If
our monster could use any kind of
technology, it would be a … computer
because you can play games with it and do other things like skype.
Ipad because then I
could play games and talk to people, it’s a computer on the go, and it
has reading and contacts. DS
because we could download games to play all of the time. Xbox
because I have lots of games for it. GPS
because it makes finding places easy. Our
web address is: http://teacherweb.com/MA/ |
New Jersey
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Hi! We are the students from Ms. Halbert’s 3rd
grade class. We are 7-9 years old. Our school is J. Fithian
Tatem Elementary School in Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA.
Haddonfield’s location on the earth is 39N
and 75W.
Our temperature ranges from 15-100 degrees. We have a blog called 3H
Quest at Classblogmeister. http://classblogmeister.com/ We are local when we learn and share at home but when we are global, everything changes because we can learn things about other people’s cultures like how they live and how they are different and similar to us. Because we are sharing our work with the world, we need to make our work the best it can be. If our Monster could use any kind of technology, it would be a computer because the Monster could:
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| Joanne Broekamp-Hall - 2nd grade class would like the necklace as their part. Randall Carter School -- Wayne, NJ |
New Hampshire
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Our classroom nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Right outside our window is Canon Ski Mountain. Students, all 100 of them, come from three local towns, Franconia, Sugar Hill, and Easton. We are the only fourth grade class at Lafayette Regional School and have 11 students (soon to be 10 students). Inside the classroom students are busy building, creating and contributing to the global world. We are constantly being monitored by the "heads"
of the past three year's monsters which hang in the room. This
year they are eager to start many different projects such as the monster project and the global
peace movie. In the winter our entire school
goes skiing, snowboarding, winter fun and cross country. Outside
of school the children spend time in the woods exploring the
wilderness and the world around them. We hope to develop many
friendships around the world and promote peace this school year.
Come join our learning journey! Email or skype us
and tell us about your world and your adventures. We
love to try to skype at least ten schools from the monster project
this year. Can't wait to see everybody's monster.
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Missouri
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This is Jenny Kopp from the
Miriam School in St. Louis, MO. My students are eagerly working on
their introduction video, but I know we won't be finished with that
until next week. I wanted to email you the rest of the information in
hopes we could get our selected monster part. Some of the
requested material will be added to the video. Jenny Kopp: Teacher 6-7
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Elementary School. Hannibal, Missouri You may also email us at mhuseman@hannibal.k12.mo.us |
Illinois
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Mrs. Kern’s 4th grade class (and Mrs. Rush, pre-service teacher from WIU) We are all very excited to be participating in this year’s Monster Project. Our school is West Prairie North Elementary in Good Hope, Illinois, U.S.A. Our latitude/longitude is 40 degrees 32' 5'' N, 90 degrees 35' W. We are in McDonough County and the Population is 32,582. There are ten cities and towns that make up our rural county: Bardolph, Blandinsville, Bushnell, Colchester, Good Hope, Industry, Macomb, Prairie City, Sciota, Tennessee. There are nineteen students in our class, six girls and 13 boys. We live in a farming community and are a very small school. Our building has 120 students from preschool through fourth grade. We are in the Midwest and our climate is temperate and the area we live in is part of Tornado Alley. Our temperatures range from above 100 degrees F to 10 below F. We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL; everything changes because we are all connected throughout the world through the world wide web. If our Monster could use any kind of technology, it would use a Laptop so that we would be able to ask it to look something up on the Internet. Lynn Kern – Skype: lynn.kern4th – email ei-rush@wiu.edu |
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Mrs.
O’Brien & Mr. Dickinson We
are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL,
everything changes because... We
can interact with people from different countries. If
our Monster could use any kind of technology, it would
be…. Website: http://tinyurl.com/obrien4th |
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| Miss Stickelmaier and Mrs. Young, Third Grade, Canton
Westview Elementary, Canton, IL, United States, 40.5581 N, 90.0350
W, 76/44 degrees Fahrenheit. Our third grade classroom has twenty four students, who enjoy reading, are very talkative, and love to have fun! 1) We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because we learn and share with people from other countries and cultures all around the world. 2) If our Monster could use any kind of technology, it would be the Internet so he could meet people (and monsters!) from different places across the world. Blog: http://kidblog.org/MissStickelmaier/ |
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Ewing and Mrs. Brakenbury, 4th Grade, Central Intermediate School, Monmouth,
Illinois Latitude:
40.91 N, Longitude: 90.64 W Twitter:
@MrsBrakenbury e-mail: so-gehring@wiu.edu
- School Webs: http://www.central.mr238.org/ |
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Ms.
Gallico’s 4th Grade - River Valley School - Lemont,
IL - Latitude/Longitude: 41.6736 N, 88.0017 W High/Low Temperature: 90/20F - Skype: Rebecca.gallico (1)
We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL,
everything
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Ms.
Meyer’s 4th Grade - River Valley School - Lemont,
IL - Latitude/Longitude: 41.6736 N, 88.0017 W High/Low Temperature: 90/20 F |
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Ms.
Lulek’s 4th Grade - River Valley School - Lemont,
IL - Latitude/Longitude: 41.6736
N, 88.0017
W High/Low
Temperature: 90/20 F |
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Ms.
Thonn’s 4th Grade - River Valley School - Lemont,
IL - Latitude/Longitude: 41.6736 N, 88.0017 W High/Low Temperature: 90/20 (1)
We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL,
everything changes because people from different countries may have
different traditions and cultures. It is important that we learn about
other cultures so that we can understand each other and be accepting to
all people. |
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Mrs. Raymond's 4th grade - River Valley School - Lemont,
IL - Latitude/Longitude: 41.6736 N, 88.0017 W High/Low Temperature: 90/20 -We are a 4th grade
class in Lemont IL which is a southwest suburb of Chicago. 1.
We are local
when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL,
everything changes because we can learn about the different thoughts,
ideas, and experiences of people whose cultures are different from our
own. 2.
If our Monster
could use any kind of technology, it would be an IPad
because then the monster could use it to send Scary Skypes, send
letters to “Monster” Clause, play games, and then maybe even
destroy the Earth! |
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| Mrs. Boyce's 4th grade - River
Valley School, Lemont, IL - Latitude/Longitude: 41.6736 N, 88.0017 W - High/Low Temperature: 90/20 http://www.sd113a.org/ |
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Ms.
Cikowski’s 4th Grade - River
Valley School, Lemont, IL Ms.
Cikowski’s 4th Grade Class Monster Answers (2) If our
Monster could use any kind of technology, it would be
an iPad! We think it would be easy to carry around, and the
Monster could play fun games on it! Body Part: EARS
(We will be joining Mary Hately, and Angela Thonn’s class from River
Valley -- http://www.sd113a.org/ |
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Hello! We
are very close to Chicago! We
are multiage first and second grade partner classes.
We do lots of learning together.
We have worked with schools from around the world before, but
this is our first time doing The Global Monster Project and we are so
excited to have the WINGS! Mrs. Kleist and Mrs. Wasik |
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The
Team: Mrs. Molskness Homeroom
and Mrs. Gambino's Homeroom 4th Graders We
are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL,
everything changes because we have more people to share and interact
with. If the monster had technology, it
should have an XBOX360, a Wii system, a laptop, an iPad, a Nook,
and an iPhone. Mrs. Allen would rather have an Android phone! Look for our Voicethread
in the next few weeks about us!
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| The St. Paul Kindergarten and 6th grade classes from St. Paul School in Macomb, Illinois are teaming up to do the Global Monster Project. St. Paul School is located in west central Illinois (40.4592N and 90.6717 W) and is a community of 20,000 people. We are the only Catholic school in our town - school population is 138 in kindergarten through 6th grade. The kindergarten class and 6th grade class partner throughout the year on many projects. Our community is agricultural with corn and soybeans being our main crops. We have Western Illinois University and Spoon River College in our town. People from all over the world come and study here. We also have one hospital and several factories. Our town consists of farmers, college students, professors, and working families. We celebrate four seasons in west central Illinois. The average temperature in winter is 30F and summer 88F. We feel safe in our local community. People watch, out for one another and we are proud to be from a caring community. We feel we are local when we learn to share at home, but when we are global, everything changes because global is worldwide. It includes countries we know little about and areas of the world that are new to us. In order to be a global community we need to learn more about all areas and people of the world and respect who they are and the way they live. We believe we are all God’s children and we should love one another. If our monster could use any type of technology, it would be twitter, iPads, Skyping, and email. These types of technology would help our monster keep us, our parents and our friends across the world up to date on what is going on in our classroom. Plus we would be up to date on what is going on elsewhere in our world- making us more global!! |
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| Mrs. Nation’s and Mrs.
Oursler’s 4th Grade classes with WIU student Amanda Friel We are very excited to be participating in this year’s Monster Project and look forward to creating an interesting monster. Our school is West Prairie South Elementary in Colchester, Illinois, U.S.A. Our latitude/longitude is 40.4 degrees N, 90.8 degrees W. We are in McDonough County and the population is 32,580. There are six towns that make up our school district: Blandinsville, Good Hope, Sciota, Tennessee, Fandon, and Colchester. There are thirty-one students in our class, 15 girls and 16 boys. We live in a farming community and are a very small school with an enrollment of 163 Pre-K through 4th Grade students. We are in the Midwest and enjoy four seasons of the year- spring, summer, winter, and fall. Our temperatures range from above 100 degrees F to 10 below F. Maureen Nation – Skype: maureen.nation1 – Email: nationm@westprairie.org |
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Andrew
Fehrenbacher’s 4th and 5th Grade reading and writing --
Churchill Elementary, Oswego IL Seasons:
November-
February: The coldest months of the year
with temps ranging from 35 degrees F to -10 degrees F. Snow
accumulation can reach over 2 – 3 ft. during this time. It begins to
get dark earlier around 4:30-5:00 p.m. March-May:
Temperatures begin warming average temp is between 50 – 70 degrees
F. Flowers begin blooming and the sun starts to stay out longer. There
are also periods of heavy rain during this time. 1.
We are local when we learn and share at
home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because we get
the opportunity to share ideas globally and learn from different
schools and cultures. Global learning is awesome because we get to see
how different schools solve problems which helps us in turn solve
ours. 2.
If our Monster could use any kind of
technology, it would be a flashlight because if it is night he
can see using his flashlight. Maybe
his finger or his eyes could be the flashlight to help him see better.
His flashlight can scare people on Halloween. About our class....
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