No joke! The students at Kingsborough Elementary are traveling virtually to several villages in and around the Amazon Rain Forest in Ecuador, South America. Miss O’Brien has teamed up with the organization One World Classroom. This group of volunteers will travel to the Amazon in February to conduct a cultural exchange project with US and Ecuadorian schools.
Fourth and fifth grade students in the Kingsborough Earth Club are filming and creating a documentary on the culture of Kingsborough. The whole school will be represented as this film travels with Miss O’Brien thousands of miles to South America and into the rural schools of the Amazon. In return, a film will be created by Ecuadorian children to be shown back here in Gloversville.

Fifth grade Earth Club students learned simple Spanish phrases to communicate on film to the children in Ecuador. Students learned how to speak about their favorite subjects in school, favorite animals, and what it is like to play in the snow. The fourth graders have been working hard by going around the school and filming various aspects of our day to day lives that show our culture here in the USA.

Many teachers here are contributing to this project by submitting student artwork, taking virtual tours of the Amazon Rain Forest, singing and recording songs to be sent down, making Valentines, and creating crafts and gifts for the children in the rain forest.
Kingsborough students will receive daily E-Travel logs, Google Earth tours, Amazon animal poetry, and even get to video conference with Amazon students while Miss O’Brien is there. If you or your child has ideas or artwork to contribute, please contact Miss O’Brien.
 

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