Community Instagram Project

On Friday, December 6th, we were excited to meet some of the classes involved in our Community Instagram Project.  This project was initiated by Mrs. Bettess, a 3rd grade teacher, in Canada.  Using Twitter she contacted other interested classrooms (including us!) about sharing information about the different places we live via photographs.  This fall our class took a "Photo Safari" around town and took pictures of places in our community.  We are now uploading a few of those photos each week to our Instagram classroom friends to share.  We have classes in Iowa and Georgia participating as well a class in Canada and Great Britain. 

Friday we got to put some faces with class names as we were able to connect via Google Hangouts with three other classes involved in the project.  We introduced ourselves and talked to classes from central Iowa, Atlanta, Georgia, and Manitoba, Canada all at once.  It was great to hear about their communities in person and also compare weather!  Last Friday as we in Iowa hoovered around zero degrees Fahrenheit, our friends in Canada were -35 degrees Celsius, and our friends in Atlanta, Georgia were 69 degrees Fahrenheit.  Some of them were even wearing shorts to school- we were jealous!  

It is always great to talk to other 3rd grade classes, and we look forward to continuing our Community Instagram Project throughout the school year.  What a great way for us to learn about other destinations!