Iron Man

The students in Year 4 have been reading the well-known story The Iron Man by British poet and author Ted Hughes.  We watched some videos that other students have created about this story and we were motivated to build our own robot.  We took photos as we went, wrote similes to describe our robot and used Photo Peach as a tool to create our own Iron Man inspired video.  We especially enjoyed choosing the music!

Iron Man Robot on PhotoPeach
 
 What other stories have you read by Ted Hughes?

Skype call to Everest

After a weak satellite connection on our first attempt, we had a successful Skype in the Classroom call with Mark Wood last Wednesday.  It was an amazing experience for us all to speak in real time with an explorer on route to Mt Everest and we had lots of questions for him and his team.  You can watch the video below to see and hear our live chat:


We look forward to following Mark's journey to the top of the world via his website www.markwoodexplorer.com where he is posting daily audio recordings about his experiences. We're sending Mark and all his crew a giant THANK YOU for sharing their time and adventure with us here in Phuket!

Have you participated in a Skype in the Classroom project?

International Day

We've just celebrated International Day here at British International School Phuket--what a wonderful way to share our different cultures, traditions, costumes and foods!



Can you recognize any of the countries that were represented during our celebration?

Good Luck!

Inspired by Norton Primary School in England, who have sent Mark Wood a video wishing him good luck on his Mt Everest expedition,  we've decided to create word clouds to wish him all the best on his exciting adventure:

 We used Abcya! to create our word clouds--it's a super easy word cloud creator that lets you customize with style, font and colour.

Please visit our Kidblog site to see everyone's individual word clouds http://kidblog.org/MsMelaniesClass/

We are continuing to prepare for our Skype call with explorer Mark Wood. Today the children created a Padlet with some questions:

Created with Padlet

We managed to find out one of the answers for ourselves on Google:

 
  
What question would you ask Mark Wood if you had the chance?

Google Earth

In order to find out more about Mount Everest we used Google Earth to get a closer view of where Mark Wood will be when he calls us through his Skype in the Classroom project. 

To get us started we first looked at our school:

We were most surprised to see so much construction around our school!  One of the students suggested we use the historical imagery feature on Google Earth that enables you to see pictures of the same place back in time.  We noticed that ten years ago there were "lots of trees!"
Next we flew over the globe to Nepal where we focused in on Mount Everest and saw "lots of snow" and "no construction." 

 We also discovered that we could click on Google Earth photo icons and saw several beautiful photographs of Mount Everest and the surrounding mountain ranges.

 

Can you find your school on Google Earth?  

How do its surroundings compare to our school in Phuket, Thailand?  

What other cool Google Earth features should we try out?

Book Week Blogger Challenge

As our school is celebrating book week we decided to have a book related blogger challenge:

 If you could magically jump into a book for a day...

Check out our kidblog comments here: 

Book Week Blogger Challenge 

What would you do?