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Blue Bob Comes to Gill-Ville
Our friends at Millen Woods sent us their class mascot, Blue Bob the shark, to visit with Gill the Goldfish and learn about life in Gill-Ville. Here is his adventure:

//A Surprise Guest//

Blue Bob arrived at Ryerson P.S. on April 6, 2011. One of his first lessons was about the date tracking job in our classroom. The next day it was Blue Bob’s turn to change the date!

//Gill meets Blue Bob for the first time//

Gill the gold fish and Blue Bob meet for the first time. And Blue Bob comes to Gill-Ville for the first time ever as well to. Blue Bob thinks Gill the gold fish is really nice to him. Gill the goldfish is really nice to Blue Bob. When Blue Bob met Gill he was so happy. Gill and Blue Bob always like to do the compliment circle because Gill is always used to it. By Austin

//Blue Bob is looking at our Blogs!//

Blue bob is looking at our kid blog. He is reading our comments. He is learning about failure leads to Success. Failure leads to success means you are learning about your mistakes. He wants to be a guest blogger because he wants to type. By Mathew

//Blue Bob Looks at Puppet Pals//

Blue Bob is using the iPad. Blue Bob can move the puppets around. Blue Bob is watching the shows that our class made. Blue Bob plays on puppet pals. Blue Bob is using the puppet pals because he has to use it to tell a story. By Rachel

//Blue Bob Cuts Pears//

Blue Bob is cutting fruit so he can make a smoothie. How he made it is he put all of the fruit in the juicer. Then he added yogurt. Then he got a spoon and mixed it up. Then Blue Bob drinks it. He thinks it was so good. By Braydan

//Blue Bob Pretends to Drink//

Blue Bob was looking at the pictures of glasses on the SMARTBoard. He was helping us learn how to make juice. It looks like he’s drinking out of the cup! He was really watching on the document camera. We thought it looked it funny. By Logan

//Blue Bob Stirring Smoothies//

Gill and Blue Bob mixing vanilla yogurt in our freshly made juice to make smoothies. The kids loved the smoothies. They made us so full that we didn’t feel like eating our lunch. We each had a full cup. Blue Bob thought it was delicious! By Mac

//Our principal and Blue Bob//

This is our principal, Mr. Berndt, and Blue Bob, Mr. O’Connor’s class mascotfrom Millen Woods P.S. in Waterloo. Mr. Berndt is holding Blue Bob under our school coat of arms. Mr. Berndt was the first person Blue Bob met when he came here. Our principal met him in the front foyer. By Zach

//Blue Bob Learns About Livescribe Pens//

Gill is teaching Blue Bob how to use the livescribe talking pen. He is listening to someone talk about their story and he’s looking at the picture that they drew in the book. He tried it out by pressing the record button and then the stop button when he’s done talking and then he plays it back by touching the pen on the special paper. By Jacob

//Getting Ready to Connect//

Gill and Blue Bob are excited to use adobe connect to video conference with a grade 4 class in Alberta. Blue Bob watched as the Gill-Villeans asked questions about their school (Forest Green), their town (Stony Plain) and province (Alberta). This information will help our class prepared for our next Canada Connections meeting with our friends in Blue Bob’s class!

//Blue Bob on the SMARTBoard//

Blue Bob is touching the SMARTBoard. His class doesn’t have one so he doesn’t know what it is. He feels scared when he touches it for the first time because he never used one before. He used the pens to write on the SMARTBoard. He had fun using the SMARTBoard and it was easy for him. He pressed the two buttons on the bottom and it frightened him because he didn’t know that it would orient the SMARTBoard! By Kara

//Feeling at Home//

Gill and his new friend, Blue Bob are using an ocean math app on the iPad. Can you guess why they loved this activity so much? Blue Bob sure has lots to share with his class at Millen Woods! We certainly enjoyed his visit with us in Gill-Ville. Gill the Goldfish will be very sad to see Blue Bob leave to go back home.