Mystery Skype & A Guest Classroom

This week we had a Mystery Skype (or Skype) every day!  What was very exciting about this week was that Ms. Warren’s class started joining us for our Mystery Skype's.  Having Ms. Warren’s class was a great treat and experience.  One student from our class was partnered up with a student from Ms. Warren’s class, together the partnerships had to decide who was going to ask the questions and who would answer the question.  This was a great problem-solving and working together activity.

On Monday, we Mystery Skype with Ms. Dita’s class, we believe her class is in Tennessee.  We have our follow-up Mystery Skype with Ms. Dita’s class this week and we will find out if our thinking is correct.  This is our current thinking…

  We think you are in Tennessee because your state is in the shape of a parallelogram.

        We think you are in Tennessee because Justin Timberlake was born in Tennessee.

        We think you are in Tennessee because the state flower in Tennessee is the Iris.

On Tuesday, we followed-up Skyping session with our blogging buddies from Mrs. Merced’s class (in Chicago).  All buddies have now finished Skyping with each other and almost everyone has finished writing their 5 finger paragraph on their buddy.

On Wednesday, we Mystery Skyped with Mrs. Kue’s 2nd grade class.  Ms. Betsy was kind enough to take notes during our Mystery Skype with Mrs. Kue’s class.  On Thursday, Ms. Warren’s class came into our classroom and we did research based on the answers Mrs. Kue’s class provided us.  As a result of our research we learned that Mrs. Kue’s class was located in Texas.  On Friday, we followed up with Mrs. Kue’s class and told them all of the new information we learned about Texas.  We read them the following statements:

           We think you are in Texas because former President Bush lives in Texas.

           We think you are in Texas because Texas has two MLB team (the House Astros and the Texas Rangers).

          We think you are in Texas because Kelly Clarkson was born in Texas.

          We think you are in Texas because the Dallas Cowboys play in Texas.

On Friday, we Mystery Skyped with Mrs. Cooper’s 5^th grade class.  This was a different type of Mystery Skype, clues were given during the Skype and students did research while the Skype was going on.  As a result of students hard work during the Mystery Skype, we found out Mrs. Cooper’s class is from Flower Mount, Texas.  For this Skype we began by finding out the state and then we “zoomed in” and found the location of their city!  We had a lot of “schema” about Texas, because we had Mystery Skyped with Mrs. Kue’s class from Texas the day before, which really helped us with our Mystery Skype with Mrs. Cooper’s class. 

We had a great week Mystery Skyping... we can't wait to meet new friends in various states this week!