360 Patagonia (Part II)

Written by Guest Bloggers: Maya & Penelope

Miss Klipfel's class went on an unexpected expedition today! Miss Klipfel told us to get our passports and run to the airport…“We're going to PATAGONIA!” she announced excitedly. Well, we didn’t actually go to Patagonia but we got the next closest thing. Patagonia VR!!! 

 
Miss Klipfel put each kid in expedition partners each with their own VR headset. Then you got to choose a video from four different Patagonia locations. Once you finished the 360 video from one location you had to solve the puzzle that went with it.

There were super fun activities to go with each location! For the first stop, Staten Island, in the VR we saw a king penguin and then went to the Lighthouse at the End of the World. After we read a passage about Staten Island to learn about the conservation work happening there then filled in the sentences. For each word, there was a circled letter and all of the circled letters would make a word. On the second stop, Karukinka National Park, the activity was a puzzle to learn more about plastic pollution and how it's impacting Patagonia. When you finished the puzzle it gave you the next clue word. 

The third stop, National Geographic Explorer, which is the ship Miss Klipfel lived on, we got to see the library, the observation deck, bridge and stood on the bow while in the Chilean fjords. After we had a Patagonia map and you would answer questions like, if you were to go from Ushuaia to the Pia Glaciers would you head North, South, West, or East? Right next to the answer was a symbol and that symbol had a letter and those would make up the next word. The fourth stop was the Bernal Glacier, the activity that went with this was a mystery picture. So you would have to answer math questions about how climate change is impacting glacial recession and adding to sea level rise. Every time you got the answer right you would get a part of the picture which gave us our final word.

We put all four clue words, explorer, curious, empathetic, and empowered into the Google Form to earn our cool Patagonia Explorer Badge. Check out the website Miss Klipfel made here with all the activities on it. 

We all earned our Patagonia Explorer Badge

We still can't believe how real the VR felt like we were really standing in Patagonia and even felt like the elephant seals were coming right towards us. Lots of us liked the waterfall in Karukinka National Park and being able to stand on the bridge with the captain and see how the ship navigates. We are so lucky we got to go to Patagonia with Miss Klipfel!

Read 360 Patagonia Part I Here

Fashion Disaster

Written by guest blogger: Penelope

One day everyone came to school with an odd way of fashion, you could call it a...FASHION DISASTER! This day every student in Miss Klipfel class had a fashion show. But the twist is they come to the Klipfel Fashion Week in hopes to start a brand new unique fashion trend.

How it works is that other contestants sit on a bench while cheering on the person on the runway. The trendy model walks the red carpet and at the end of the carpet they strike a pose and everyone cheers. Then the next models walk the runway and strike a pose.

At the end, each model gets a card and writes down who deserves first, second, and third place for the best fashion disaster. Once everyone turns their votes in Miss Klipfel writes the amount of votes on the board. Then Miss Klipfel would tally them up. Usually, she would do a clap off, but this year we had a clear winner, Tessa. We still did a clap off for second, third, and fourth. Maybe someday you too will be in Klipfel Fashion Week!

Next step take our fashion disasters and write persuasive pieces to convince you why these are the next fashion trend. 

Unknown Planet

Written by Guest Bloggers: Anabella & Tessa

We are so excited to share our latest book project we did with our partner class in England. We first had to get ready to make all of our books and that’s called brainstorming. The first step of brainstorming is teamwork, meaning that we have to work together and tell each other what parts we are doing like the opening, rising action, climax (which they call dilemma), falling action, and the ending. We did this with our friends in England so we had to really work together as a team.

Once we knew who was writing each part we had a shared Google slide deck to do our writing. Then we had many Google Meets to do our editing. While we were editing we really worked hard together to make our writing even stronger. We really learned a lot from each other. After we were done writing and editing it was time to Illustrate. That meant we had to decorate our books with drawings, colors, and textures with the tools in Book Creator. Our England friends were new to Book Creator so we had to do teamwork again so they knew how to use it.

When we all finished our projects we shared them all together over a Google Meet. We are so excited to show you our finished published books! Make sure to check them out.

Click here to check out our published books