Package arrived from Hawaii

Meet Malia, our mascot from Hawaii!!

She arrived in Norway on Saturday October 6. - Two weeks after she was send from Hawaii.
Unfortunately our students were out of school because of fall break the next week, so I had to wait until Monday Oct 10. to let the students open it. They were SO excited when they saw me coming into the room with the box.













 I let Random word chooser in Notebook decide which two students that should open the box.



When they had opened the package, to great acclaim from the rest of the class, they did not hesitated  reading the letter out loud in class. It is impressive, considering that it was an unknown text, in English.












It was exciting content in the box and they loved the sweets:) The students are going to write more about what they learned about the things Malia is wearing - I will post it here later on.

The Iolani corner is getting to be filled with a lot of knowledge.

 
 
 




























We have worked with the same type of SMART amp workspaces as Iolani. They first wrote what they knew about Hawaii, without using Google:) In another workspace they asked questions about Hawaii. And they have got answers!! They know that if they suddenly think of something they want answered, they can open the workspace and write the question. They also love to answer the questions Iolani have for us.

Some questions they had:

 
• What is your favourite Hawaii food?
• Have any of you ever went skiing?
• Do you have trains in Hawaii?
• How many volcanos have you?
• How many different animals are there in Hawaii?
• Have you ever seen snow?
• How many years do you have to be to start driving?
• Why is Hawaii part of USA?
• What do you do in physical education?            

This week we have been working with convert Fahrenheit  to Celsius degrees, and vice versa.  It's amazing how much more motivated they are to learn when it's something that really engages them. 


Half of the students have also started on the issue - "What is halfway to Hawaii ?" .

This would be something we are going to talk about when we "meet" Nov 9.

We are really looking forward to see and hear our friends in Hawaii.