On September 22, 2016, my students met Mrs. Wise's Kindergarten class from York, PA. We planned to meet in the afternoon, so throughout much of the morning I could see and hear just how excited my students were to meet them. One of my students said, "I wish the afternoon would just get here so we can talk with them." Another student mentioned, "Hey, they are in the same time zone as us. That's why we can talk with them in the afternoon." After much anticipation, the time had come to connect both classes via Google Hangouts. My class met Mrs. Wise, her kindergarten students, and the school's principal. My students seemed more confident to talk with them; sharing their name and something interesting about themselves. It was great to hear both classes make connections with each other and start to build relationships. After learning about each other, we decided to play a game of "Monster Guess Who?" Students from each class took turns asking questions to try to figure out which monster each other had. Some of these questions included: "Does your monster have one eye?" "Does your monster have horns?" "Are there spikes on your monster?" After three questions, we had eliminated all the monsters except one. One of my students held up a picture of a monster and said "Is this your monster?" Mrs. Wise's class said "yes" simultaneously while cheers broke out in my classroom. Mrs. Wise's class asked one more question and then held up a picture of the monster they thought was in our classroom. My class said "yes" and you could hear all the excited cheers in the kindergarten classroom. We got to meet "Hubert" and they got to meet "Spike." We had to say goodbye for the day, however both classes were so excited to talk with each other again.
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