Worth the Wait

Watching you work with your 3/4 partner yesterday was amazing! The link to Voice Thread is now in the blog, and the quality of your pictures, voiceovers, and comments is amazing! Feel free to sign into Voice Thread again and listen to your classmates and comment again. Next week we will work on adding voice comments. Enjoy!

Giving Thanks Voice Thread

¡Feliz año 2010!

Happy New Year from Madrid! There is a custom in Madrid to celebrate the New Year by eating one grape for each chime as the bell tolls midnight. It sounds easy, but you have to eat the grapes really fast! There are also all kinds of things you do to ensure that you will have luck in the new year, such as using a yellow napkin at dinner, have a fresh cherry in your sparking water, and eat lentils just after midnight. Does your family have any New Year's traditions?

Jamon!

Spain is famous for Jamon, the local ham. We have one sitting in a vice in Cory's apartment! Not for me, but Mr. Smith and Colin love it!

Ghent, Belgium

Happy Holidays to everyone! I hope you had a great day yesterday. We had a very long trip to get here in Belgium.

A word problem for you: Our flight from New York took 6 hours. We left the airport at 10:00 p.m. The time in Madrid is six hours later than in New York. What time did we arrive in Madrid?

Our daughter Cory met us at the airport and we took a bus and the metro to get to her apartment. We rested for a while, ate some lunch, and then headed back to the airport to catch our flight to Brussels, Belgium. Our son Colin met us at the airport at midnight, and drove us to the apartment where we are staying in Ghent. The apartment is great--small rooms and lots of floors--I'll send pictures later. We cooked a great meal last night and today we'll spend the day walking around sightseeing. Back to Madrid tomorrow!

Giving Thanks

Hello Class,
The backgrounds you have been working on in Paint look great. Your task for today is to think about something that you are thankful for in nature and post a comment. This idea will help you plan your artwork later on.
Ms. Francke and Ms. Peterson