Have you heard about the Global Read Aloud? It's like the coolest idea! And such a GREAT way to help my little monkeys make connections and develop their global minds! The GRA is just what it says, books being read at the same time around the world. Check out the website to learn more and the wikispace to help get you started. The wikispace should help lead you to the Edmodo group for your age group and then before you know it you will be making connections with classes all over the world just like us!! Ok, so far we have only been talking to different Grade 1 classes in the U.S but our global trackers tell us that a class in India has also checked out our class blog. Oh right, I started ANOTHER BLOG, which is why I have been neglecting this blog. Still working on that time management thing ;)
So the Global Read Aloud is from September 30th to November 8th and this year's books are all Eric Carle books! Last week we read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and today we read "Have You Seen My Cat?" We have been recording our thoughts and questions on our class blog through kidblog. Check it out kidblog.org/teacherjackiesclassblog
I've been setting a timer at the start of class and using 10 minutes a day for GRA activities and to read the comments on our blog and respond. The students are LOVING it so far and have so many questions for our American friends. I can't wait to see how many connections we make in the next 5 weeks! Tomorrow we are going to start mapping our connections!
