Hanging Out with New Jersey

If you haven't tried Google Hangouts in your classroom, you should!

Last year's class participated in over a dozen Hangouts with various classrooms from Sweden to Argentina to England to USA.  To date, this year's class had only done two!

This past Wednesday, we connected with Ms Wachtin's Gr 5 class from Millstone River School in Plainsborough, New Jersey.  She was a teacher that had hung out with us last year and wanted to reconnect by playing "Mystery Hangout" where classes take turns answering yes/no questions in order to guess each other's location.

Hangouts are a window into another place.  Instant time travel!

The New Jersey class asked questions such as:

• Are you in America? (No)
• Do you border water? (Yes)
• Does your province border Hudson Bay? (Yes)
• Does your province end in a vowel? (Yes)
• Are you North of 50 degrees longitude? (No)
• Are you in Toronto? (No)

Waiting for a reply to one of our questions

We asked things like:

• Does your country's flag have blue in it? (Yes)
• Are you in America? (Yes)
• Is your state north of Kansas? (Yes)
• Is your state west of Kansas? (No)
• Does your state start with the letter "M"? (No)
• Does your state start with the word "new"? (Yes)
• Does your city border the Atlantic? (No)

If you look closely, you can see the list of States we thought it could be after our 4th question above.

We also were introduced to Ms Wachtin's class pet; a chinchilla named Simba!  We had no choice to but to introduce "Woody Harrelson"...our class tree.  {Sigh!}

The kids seemed enthusiastic about playing again with another class.  If you'd like to connect, we are in the EST and you can drop me a note at robertabrooks@mytools2go.ca

~MissBrooks