Mystery Skype

On May 1st Year 3 had their first ever mystery Skype! Read about the excitement below! Don't forget to leave us a comment. 

Today, we had our first ever mystery skype! A mystery skype is where two classes (perhaps in different countries) get together. They ask questions to work out where they are in the world.

What happened
Firstly, the greeters greeted the other class before starting. Everyone was really exited about meeting the other class. Not long after, the questioners asked there first question "What continent are you on?"
They replied with North America. Meanwhile, we were busy working, on the back channel (Maddie, Ishaq and Antonnee) were on TodaysMeet typing down what we did. We were asking lots until... we found them in New Mexico! The clue that gave them away was a famous landmark near by "White Sands monument. " After that, we had to find what city they were in!

What were some of the facts
A new fact we learnt was in there State they tested the first two nukes. In there class they wear badges like teachers in our school. They also don't have to wear school uniforms. Here is another exiting fact they hold a record of growing the most Chilli peppers in the world!

What I liked about it
They had been kind, helpful and polite and they were having lots of fun. I liked how they all took part and were not being left out. My favourite thing was when we found out where they were.

What I learnt 
I learned that in New Mexico they have an American accent. I also learnt that year five in New Mexico means grade four.

I hope we can do another skype soon with another class!

By Heather 




Everyone in position!


Today we had our first ever mystery skype! A mystery skype is where two classes skype each other and they ask each other qeshoins to try and find out where they are.

We all had jobs during the Skype, for example, runners who run about and pass things on. I was a runner! There were also question keepers they keep the questions and say if we have already said that question. There are mappers who cross off where they could not be and there were lots of other jobs.

We asked questions like, what famous land mark are you on and what state do you live in? They asked us questions like that as well. 

I liked that they were polite and kind to us. I found out a lot of new things. I saw they wore badges. We were not sure if they had to were them every day or just for the mystery skype. 
I would like to skype them again.
by Caelyn



We have some states crossed off!


Today, we had our first ever mystery skype! A mystery skype is where two classes skype each other and ask questions to find out where they are in the world.

What happened
Firstly, the greeters (Caelyn and Thomas) greeted them politely and wished them the best of luck. Next, we asked them a question that was "What continent are you on?"
The questioners (from the other class) said "were on North America."
Then, we and the mystery skypers kept on asking each other questions to find out where they were. A question that they asked us was, "Are you on the west side of Nottingham?"
We struggled with this question but we did find out the answer. "We are on the west side of Nottingham," the questioners (in our class) replied.
After a while, we found out they're in ... New Mexico!
After a few more questions they found out where we were. We're in the United Kingdom of course!

What were some of the facts
One of the most interesting facts was that they told us part of the Transformers film was filmed in one of the their famous parks. One of the other amazing facts
was that they hold one of the largest hot air balloon festivals in the world!

What I liked about it
I liked how they were being polite, kind and honest. I also liked how they were working together and not leaving each other out.

What I learnt
I learnt that in New Mexico they speak with American accent and wear badges for school. I also learnt that year five in New Mexico means grade four.

We hope we can do another skype with you again soon.

By Erin

Our Mystery class

Today we had are first ever mystery Skype! A mystery Skype is where 2 classes Skype each other and ask questions where each other is. 

What happened 

First, the greeters started us off then it started. Next, the work began everybody went to work. Then we got them just before they got us. Finally, we told us about each others area. 

Our jobs

Our jobs are mappers, runners, questioners, clue keepers, back channalers, greeters and photographers. Everybody worked very hard. We improved our mapping skills, geography skills and listening skills.

Extra information 

We really enjoyed Skyping the school in New Mexico we learnt a lot of facts about New Mexico like they hold one of the worlds largest hot air balloon festival. We hope we could do another mystery Skype soon.

Our area 

We explained about our flag and the union jack. We also explained about our trams and that we have a lot of forests. 

by Lucas 

Using TodaysMeet to record what is happening as we go along.

Today we had our first ever mystery Skype! A mystery Skype is where two classes Skype each other and have to guess where each other are in the world.

What happened
We asked each other questions like, "What continent are you on?" The jobs were questions, mappers, question keepers, back channelers, clue keepers, runners, photographers and greeters. We got them first after just three guesses but they carried on trying to find out where we were. After a few more guesses they found out where we are. They were in Alamago!

What were some of the facts
One of the most interesting facts they told us that part of Transformers was filmed in one of their most famous parks! One of the other main fact was that they hold one of the world`s largest hot air balloon festival.

What I liked about it
I liked that the New Mexico children were being very kind and polite while talking to us. I also liked that we all worked as a team and all got along with each other.

What I learnt
I learnt that in New Mexico they speak in an American accent and that they where badges to get around school.

What we could do better next time
Next time we could be a little bit quieter when the other children are speaking.

Grace W

Our sign to put up to the screen when we were thinking

Our First Mystery Skype

Today, we done our first mystery Skype! A mystery Skype is where two country's Skype each other and ask questions to find out where about they are in the world each other is.

What Happened
Firstly, we greeted the other class and wished them good luck. After that everyone started doing their jobs the jobs were runners, back channlers (on Todaysmeet) and mappers. Next we asked some questions like "What continent are you on?" The mystery class were in North America. Then we asked " What famous landmark are you near?" They replied "White Sands." Then we found them they are in...New Mexico! After that they guessed where we are. We're in the United Kingdom of course.

What were some facts
One of the facts was they hold a record of growing the most chilli peppers in the world! Another fact was their state tested the first two nuclear bombs.

What I liked about it
I liked that they were polite, kind and honest. I hope we do another mystery Skype!

By Louie 

What happened
As we started most of us were nervous as the greeters said hello, then the Skype began! One of our questions was what famous landmark are you near? And they said white sands and we searched and Luke found out that they were in New Mexico in Alamogordo! And they got us after we got them and it was really intense.


What I liked about it
It was fun and entertaining and I loved looking through the maps and I liked doing the logical reasoners and also had a lot of fun with Ashley because we were the only two on that table.


What I learned
I found out that they lived pretty much near this stuff I have never heard of before and they lived near the, White Sands Monument!


What we could do better next time
We should try to keep the noise down and listen to the questioners when they want to ask questions. 


By Luke 

Today we had our first mystery Skype! A mystery Skype is where two classes get together to guess where each other are.

What happened
First, we picked two greeters, Thomas and Caelyn were the greeters who welcomed the mystery class. Next, Grace W and Heather who were the questioners asked the questions. The back channelers thought of the questions then the runners Joseph and Louie came over and took the questions and told Grace W and Heather. The first question that we asked was what continent are you on? The answer to that was North America. After we asked all the questions we found out where they were it was in New Mexico. The photographers were Jayden and Megan who took the photos of what we did.

What were some of the facts
One of the most of interesting facts was that part of Tranformers was filmed there on one of the most famous parks.

What I liked about it 
I liked how they were very well mannered and well behaved.

By Thomas 

On Friday May 1st we did a mystery skype . We had Grace W and Heather asking questions to the graed 4 class in the mystery school.
In our class room we had mappers, runners, clue keepers, photoghraphers, greeters and question keepers.This is one of us thinking. 

He is one of the mappers.

We enjoyed skyping a diffrent school in another country.

by Ishaq

Today, we had our first ever mystery Skype! We all had jobs like runners, greeters, clue keepers and mappers. A mystery Skype is where two classes find out where each others school is. We found out the mystery class were in New Mexico, the continent was North America.

I liked it because we found out new stuff For example the road runner was a type of bird in North America. We found out their school was in Alamogordo. 

We can do better at being quiet when the girls put their hands up.
By Jason 

Today, we had our first mystery skype ever! A mystery skype is where two classes skype each other and ask questions to guess where each other is.

Jobs we did 
clue keepers
questioners
mappers
question keepers
back channel group
greeters 

First the greeters greeted the mystery skype class.Then we came up with some questions, for example what continent are you on? So then the clue keepers write North America as a clue.Then they asked us what continent are we on we replied Europe.Then we asked what famous landmark do you have near you? Mrs Chumard's class replied White Sands. Eventually we guessed it was New Mexico. We found some exiting and unusual facts they were really interesting.

What we liked
I liked about the facts like they said that their state grows the most chillies in all their country.

What we could do better next time
What we could do better next time is to do another accent to trick the mystery skype class.

We're looking forward to do another mystery skype again!
by Zaina

What happened:
Everybody. has jobs, like runners, mappers, question keepers, greeters (Thomas and Caelyn), photographers. Luke was really thinking about the questions.

Some questions we asked were: What state are you in? What continent are you on? Are you west of the Mississippi River? Are you in north of America ? Are you in New Mexico ? (We asked each other questions) and used we are thinking signs. We found out they were in Alamogordo New Mexico! 

by Jordan

A big thank you to Mrs. Chanard and her fourth Graders in New Mexico. We really feel we now have some new friends! We look forward to working with you again soon.