Archive for November, 2008

Those Are the Things We Love

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

6th graders have been working together with 6th graders from the Goethe School in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Talented Mrs. Menger challenged them to share and show life around Jacksonville to our new friends in a different media.  With her help, they composed a song to the tune of of “We didn’t start the fire” by Billy [...]

Kindergarten Kids Talking With Peru Again

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Kindergarten skyped again with Sra. Tatiana’s class in Lima, Peru from San Jorge school. We had a wonderful time. One of our Kindergarteners said:
That is so cool, that we can talk with them
Together with Sra. Gallo (our Spanish teacher) , our Kindergarteners had learned a song in Spanish called “Una mano, dos manos”. Sra. Tatiana [...]

Video Conference with Peru

Friday, November 7th, 2008

We met a wonderful teacher from the bilingual Colegio San Jorge in Lima, Peru while we were traveling with Jose, the travel bear. Sra. Ugaz is an amazing teacher and was immediately willing to collaborate with us and our students in any shape or form. Since she teachers 4-5 year olds in Peru, we matched [...]