Our First Skype

Today's marks our first class skype and a bonus for the kids was that I had 2 separate States from the US who were wanting to celebrate Dot Day with us.  Our first Skype was with a 4th grade class in MaryLand and our second Skype was with a 4th grade class in Utah.  The kids volunteered to orally share reading the book, "The Dot" by Peter Reynolds and understand that the theme of the book is to allow one tiny dot to mark only the beginning of a journey of the creative spirit in all of us.  It is also a story about surprise and self-discovery and one that I hope to watch grow in my students this year.

  The iPad was hooked up to the Smartboard where the two classes called our class through Skype.  After reading the book, we talked about how we respectively celebrated Dot Day.  My class showed their pillows which received A LOT of "ooohs" and "aaaahs" from both of the schools.  The school in Utah showed us their DOT shields they had made and the school in Maryland showed us their Dot trading cards they made. Our first attempt to Skype today went off without a hitch and the kids said they enjoyed every minute of it!