The Snail & Whale Project

The Snail and Whale arrived safely at Rocky River today after a downpour yesterday.  It rained and rained and rained all day.  But today was mostly sunny.    We tried to figure out what was in the box and Brittany predicted the Snail and Whale project.   We’ve been doing a Flat Stanley project so most everyone else guessed more Flat Stanley’s.  The Snail and Whale were a surprise for the kids.  The Snail and Whale will get to hang out with our Flat Friends from Middleham Primary A Room With a View in North Yorkshire, England.

We are a group of excited 2nd grade (7 and 8 year olds) at Rocky River Elementary in Monroe, North Carolina, USA.   We tried to figure out who had them before but it’s not written in the book where they came from.   The Classroom Connection from Canada had them late February – early March but then it doesn’t say.   Do you know where they were after that?

We are looking forward to hosting them before our school ends.   We’ll take care of them and show them around the school.

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Hello I’m Charlotte from St Patricks School Paraparaumu

Snail and Whale have arrived at our school safe and sound. Lucky they didn’t get wet in the big storm last night. We will keep up to date with their adventures in the two weeks we have them.

Bye bye!

Room 8 St Pats School

Check out this awesome little video made by Mr Eldridge’s class in England. The snail and the whale have been hanging out in England over the last couple of weeks and have been having an awesome time!

We had a fantastic time with the Snail and the Whale when they visited our school, we completed a whole project around their visit, writing stories, making our own puppet shows and much more.
We hope you like the video we have put together which includes some of their adventures.

Thank you so much for visiting Hawes School Snail and Whale, we hope you have fun at your new place.

Class 2

Last week we arrived in Hong Kong. We went to a school in DB called Discovery Bay International School. We have made friends with two girls in Y3SS called Iris and Isabella. They took us to Enrichment were I met Miss Hulland and it was amazing .
Iris took my photo and made it look digital it looked really weird.
Isabella took a photo of me and i looked cool then she made me look
even weird.Miss Hulland chose me as better than be for it was so much fun.

I was so lucky today, I went to the super creative enrichment room with Ben and James! For the first time I met Miss.Hulland. In the room we did so much stuff, like making a picture out of feathers and glue. I got covered in glue and feathers and almost looked like a chicken with all those feathers on me. Then we went to P.E, but as soon as I got there I was toasted like a marshmallow. We did loads and loads of drills and lots of tough games like ultimate tag,ultimate tag is a game when everyone is it. I always came last in races because I’m a slowpoke. That’s what snails do. At snack we played Man Hunt, Man Hunt is basically hide and seek tag.

We sailed away around the world to Hong Kong island.
We sailed and surfed into the midnight and landed on the soft sand.

We were stranded in DBIS. Excitedly we went to y3ss we were just in time for art, it was so fun! We did painting, drawing and making games we made a Olympic game called Olympic questions. Mees and Johnny took us to the art room we were boiling it was so warm!
We met someone called Nina she was really nice. She helped us make our game Olympic questions. We made some strips of paper and wrote questions on them. Last we played the game the snail won, slow and steady wins the race.

Oh, what a travel I had to HONG KONG! I wasn’t supposed to go there but it was worth it. This is what I got up to.

We had a stroll around the school and did a few monkey bars and met some new people called: Clarissa, Jessica, Lucy, Tara and Iris.
I hope I will come back to D.B.I.S! It was awesome!

Grace and Sara took me to the library to look at some interesting books about snails I met a person (which I think was the librarian) and she was called Mrs. Basford.
Mrs. Basford showed me books about The Sea and what it feels like to live there.
I didn’t really want to live there because people always captured the sea animals.
I wonder how the whale felt in the sea.. I hope the whale didn’t get caught! Or else it won’t be able to bring me to a new place!
Later on, we did an acrostic poem and I managed to memorise it.

Snails are small but doesn’t mean they still can’t travel!
Never think you can’t do things that you actually can do!
A friendship with others never ever last shortly.
I think I might go around the world more often to make new friends!
Lollipops in Hong Kong are delicious!

That was our acrostic poem we made!
We did a puzzle of the world map and managed to finish it! Mrs. Basford told them something of house points which I don’t really get. Grace explained what house points are in a simple way.
We had some snack and had a break at the playground I love D.B.I.S so far, I just noticed that D.B.I.S was a school……!WOW!

We set sail for DB from New Zealand. We arrived at DBIS. Both of us were surprised by how big the school is. First we got taken to the cafe by Zac and Tom,we saw kids eating lunch. Then we were hungry so we joined the kids. We then got taken to the ICT room, we played Lego digital designer for hours, we loved it. We built a prison. Then we played Bee Bot. It was the best game of all, we told the Bee Bots where to go,and they did,it was great fun.

We had lots of fun here at DBIS, but now we have to go to another faraway country.