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Family Involvement:
Joy posted a link to the Grandparent Party in KidSpace with this note: "On May 22nd, we invited our grandparents to school to have a party and to see the Grandmother & Me Project. They loved it and so did we. Come see our party pictures." http://www.evesham.k12.nj.us/beeler1/What are We Learning/Grandma_Gabardi.htm Kidlink and local communities… Houses (KHouses): A Kidlink House or "KHouse" is a house or a cultural center with doors open to the public. These "houses" include computers and connections to the Internet. KHouses offer educational Kidlink services to students of poor public schools and individual youth without access to computers and the Internet. http://www.kidlink.org/kie/khouse/whatis.html Groups of senior citizens interact by email with KHouse youth. Besides learning about technology and participating in projects, these seniors communicate among themselves in their own KHouse "KidFamilia" activities. Global perspectives and understandings Participation in Kidlink project helps youth develop global perspectives and understandings of various cultures. In the "Kidlink Day" project students wrote journals for a full school day and posted these journals in KidSpace. Many students began a conversation with other participants after reading their journals. Some students gathered data found in the journals and drew new insights from them. Below is a reflection made by a student in Brazil about different schedules she observed when reading some of the journals. Schedules In all different parts of the whole world there are different cultures and schedules. Like in Italy and Brazil their schedules are similar. Of course it changes, but just a little. In both these countries we wake up early in the morning and go to school where we have different kinds of subjects until 1:00pm when we go home for lunch with our families. Then in the after noon they do many different things, homework, extra activities, or just stay home playing and stuff. People eat all kinds of foods around the world. In United States normally the schools offer you lunch or the students can bring their own lunch too. In the after noon they continue to have normal subjects. School is over like 3:00 or 4:00 o'clock and some days they have extra activities... Like basketball, swimming, cheerleader, soccer, etc...Where they represent the school in competition. In Australia the day is like in United States. Well, in far away countries you can have the same culture.......or not. I hope you have learned something here!!! Bye, bye...
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Joy Boehm from HL Beeler Elementary in New Jersey joined the "Grandmother and Me" project with students at her school. At the end of the school year, second grade students at HL Beeler shared their project with - their grandparents!