RAP has begun at Hempfield!
The annual Read Around the Planet videoconferencing event has begun. At Hempfield we have many classes participating including ESL, German, Spanish, French, second grade and fifth grade. The first two events were held on Thursday February 25. Mrs. Goserud and Mrs. Snyder’s ESL classes shared books that they had created with Technology Specialist Ms. Reed to another ESL class in Peel School District, Ontario, Canada. The Canadian class shared a presentation on the provinces of Canada. Both classes enjoyed the interaction and we look forward to further communication with this district.
Frau Henrich’s German II classes videoconferenced with a grade 2 class from the Calmant Science and Technology Magnet School in Pittsburgh. The German 2 class presented two children’s books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie substituting german vocabulary for the english words. The second graders really liked our student who acted the part of the mouse in the story. The second grade class then shared a presentation on Pittsburgh and their haiki poems that they had written for the event. The question and answer session was a good vocabulary test for the Hempfield students as the second graders wanted to know many German words!
We look forward to the rest of the RAP connections next week. You can follow the RAP event on Twitter using the hashtag #RAP2010.



















