Hi Everybody!
I just visited the Detroit Zoo with Bella and Brielle. Since we had so much fun, I thought I’d share some zoo web cams with you. I hope you are all having a safe and happy summer!
For more webcam fun, visit these sites. Remember, the National Zoo site offers 20 more webcams!
Animal Cams at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park
This week we can have some fun with Garfield. Try out the Comic Creator to build your own Garfield comic strip. When you visit this WOW, you can also click on the “comics” tab to read Jim Davis’ creations. You can search the comics by keyword, date, or just scroll through the comics by pressing the PREV. (previous) tab.
If you want to have some more fun with comics, try Read, Write, and Think’s Comic Creator. Scroll through the characters and props to illustrate your story.
Tell me which features of each Comic Creator you liked the best.
If you played any games, let us know what you recommend.
I hope everyone is already having a wonderful summer!
As promised, here is your first WOW, or Website Of the Week.
This one can be found on Math Playground. Try it out and let me know what you think.
We have used this website at school, but I found this specific game through http://moturoa.blogspot.com/
You should visit their class blog and see what’s happening in New Zealand.
What strategy did you use to create an interesting pattern?
Are there any other websites on Moturoa’s Blog that you’d like to recommend?
Hey, hey, it’s Abby! Congrats to the 5th Graders who are going to middle school!! My friends and I are going to Middle School South or North. Our Graduation Party was on the last day of school, June 11. We also went to the Aquatic Center on June 9. I am very proud of my friends and I! 
I think the Lakers are going to win the series. The Lakers have everything it takes to sweep the Celtics. It might be hard but not too hard because the Lakers have a secret weapon: the one shot game winner, Kobe Bryant. The best basketball player since Michael Jordan. All the Celtics have is Pierce, Garnet, and Ray Allen. They still don’t stand a chance against Kobe. Well, all my blog readers, tell me who you think will win the game? See ya!
Hey, this is Kassidy and Jessie here!
What is your favorite sport and why?
Our favorite sport is soccer because it’s fun, you get to hang with your friends, and it’s fun to kick the ball around. Also you get to score goals and have a great time. It’s athletic and it’s a great time to be outside and get moving. So we would like to know what’s your favorite sport and why?
Have a great weekend and summer. Talk to you guys soon!
Your pals,
Kassidy and Jessie
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The Techie Kids are learning so much from our friends at 2KJ! We are really enjoying reading their posts about their Aboriginal Australia theme. We were especially interested in the boomerang and didgeridoo. It looks like everyone had a great time learning to throw a boomerang. We wanted to investigate further and thought it would be fun to find out what the didgeridoo sounds like. We listened to several recordings and found it interesting that each sounded a little different. We know this is because the termites do not eat evenly through the wood, yielding different sounds. We learned this from our 2KJ friends! Here are two of the recordings we listened to.
Didgeridoo on the market, aboriginal-style from Nab on Vimeo.
Stax cranks the didgeridoo from Vernon Fowler on Vimeo.
Image by geoftheref, Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic.
This is Johnnie. I was wondering, what is your favorite make-believe creature and why?
Here are a couple ideas to get you started:
Unicorn
Dragon
Phoenix
Griffin
Image by Shi Yali, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
Well, that was fun! We have to give a great big THANK YOU to Mrs. Watson and the 1/2/3’s! It was so nice to meet all of you. We had such a lovely time Skyping.
We learned many wonderful facts from our friends in British Columbia, Canada. Here are some of the highlights:
We both started blogging about the same time this year.
There are 38 students at A.J. Elliott Elementary and 328 at Sugarbush.
800 people live in their town and 11,000 live here.
Our temperature was 82° F (28°C) compared to their 52°F (11°C).
The 1/2/3’s live on an island and we live on a peninsula.
It was interesting to hear that they have wolves, birds, white-tailed deer, ocean life, and 1 unwanted grizzly bear!
We compared our Lake St. Clair to their Big Lake, which Mrs. Watson said was actually small!
The 1/2/3’s enjoy marbles, sports and swimming.
Their area is best known for 100 year old houses.
We learned that the 1/2/3’s take swimming lessons and it can be quite an adventure just to get to the pool. They take a ferry, walk to a bus, change at the pool, and then wait for the lifeguard!
We especially enjoyed listening to each other’s national anthems. The 1/2/3’s sounded fantastic as they sang “O Canada.” After the Techie Kids sang the “Star-Spangled Banner,” both classes remarked that we felt like we were attending a hockey game! That was fun for both Canucks and Red Wings fans!
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Here are clip’s Mrs. Watson found on YouTube with each of our countries national anthems.
Canadas_National_Anthem_Accpella_Style!
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