The first graders had a wonderful experience Tuesday morning as they kicked off the beginning of their Sky Tree project by Skyping with a first grade class in Vermont.
We had a wonderful time saying Aloha to our nice new first grade friends. We are very excited about the project we will be doing with them. It is based on the book “Sky Tree.” The book takes us through four seasons of the life of a tree as it goes through many changes. Our friends in Vermont are picking their own sky tree and will take pictures of it all year long. The pictures will then be put together to create a time lapse video so that we can see all the changes the tree goes through from now until the end of the school year.
We are also picking our own sky trees to take pictures and create videos of. We know that we will see some changes in our trees, but we think that our changes will be very different than the changes of the maple tree that our friends are photographing. We are going to be using the following trees on our campus:
An Ulu or Breadfruit tree,
And a Kukui Nut tree.
An addition to the time lapse video of the trees we are also going to create a digital story that teaches others how these trees are important to us as Hawaiians.
Below you will find some pics and video of our Skype. Here are some highlights of our learning from the first grade students themselves. We learned that…
It takes 40-50 buckets of Maple sap to make one bucket of Maple Syrup! – Rusty
They grow apples and pumpkins in Vermont! – Kircia
There are nice people in Vermont. – Kealohilani
A Maple tree is going to be their sky tree. – Kai
They have many different animals in Vermont like deer, rabbits, moose, black bears, chipmunks, squirrels, foxes, skunks, and possums. – Micah
And everyone agreed that skyping was fun and made us feel like we could talk to people from all kinds of other places. We cant wait to skype again!
