Technology Continues to Expand Our Horizons

This year in Social Studies we learned all about how about similarities and differences between ourselves and others, we learned to celebrate differences, and also learned about communities and maps!  Here is what we know about our community:

Our town is named Lake Hopatcong after the lake we live around.  We go to Ellen T. Briggs School, a small school with grades K-2.  We live in northern New Jersey about 1 hour drive away from New York City.

 

We also learned that New Jersey is in the north east of our country.  Our county is the United States of America.  We learned all about our pledge of allegiance, our flag, and our money.

We decided to take our knowledge of  our community, combined with our knowledge of plants and gardens (another unit we have been working on), and share it with children in another community!  We reached out and found Tia Eres' Kindergarten class from Arica, Chile!

 Below is a link to a video of our International Kindergarten Skype!  Please excuse our camera work... while we embrace technology, sometimes it does not embrace us back (so our video was accidentally shot sideways).  Enjoy!

International Kindergarten Skype