Today we had a MARVELOUS example of the connected world in action. Casey's Grandma Alicia and Grandad Roy live in Canada and had been reading our class blog and leaving the odd comment or two. Today they turned up in person!!!
Grandad Roy shared some of his childhood experiences making simple toys and inventions such as steam boats and rubber band aeroplane.
In Canada he had went out especially to buy a Steamboat kit to show our class, this was a very kind and thoughtful thing to do. I think this was an amazing experience for me and my class and it just goes to prove how powerful I think blogging is for us.
We also learnt about Scotsquirrel motorbikes, Crystal radios, Steam tractors, Steam trains, Steam engines, Tin cans with string attached for correspondence, Old cars, Motorbikes with a big radiator on it, Radios with a battery the size of a car, Clockwork cars, getting the cane at school, discipline and the way it was in the classroom back then and lots more.
THANK YOU very much Roy and Alicia for coming, we treasured your words. Thank you Casey for sharing your Grandad and Grandma!!
Room 6 leave a comment and tell us what you remembered!
14 comments:
Tayler said...
Today Casey's granparents came to talk to us about how machines worked. His grandfather told us about the steam tractor worked. I thought it was interesting how it worked.
shannon said ...
Thank you Casy Grandparents for coming and showing us a about the steam boats and cystral radio. I liked learning about what happen in the old days at school and learning about the machines.
Abbey said...
Today Casey's granparents came to talk to as about how a radio had batteries as big as a car motor. Also they talked to us about the steam boats and the steam tractor and how they worked. I thought it was cool and interesting.
Wow that sounds like you had a great day. I wish I was there to learn all that fantastic stuff.
What lovely grandparents Casey.
It was really cool when my Gran and Grandad came to my class and when they showed us the pop pop boat. But on Sunday when we first made it and tested the pop pop boat, it blew up! We even tried to solder it back together, but it just blew up again.
Thank you Gran and Grandad, you are wonderful.
By Casey the purple people blog eater.
Billie said
I think it was cool knowing what had happened in the` olden days.I learnt that there is some thing called a crystal radio.Which you rub a crysdal against a piece of wire, thank you alicia and roy.
It was interesting that he told us what happened in the old days. They showed the pop pop boat he told us about how it works.
Mikayla said...
Thank you for coming in and telling
us about your life in Canada. There were lots of funny things you told
us. Making a boat out of wood and metal would probably be pretty hard. I liked learning about the crystal radio. It sounded pretty cool.
Learning about the machiens was
prety cool to. I enjoyed you coming to tell us about your life in Canada. I wish you could come in
and say hi to us again. Thank you
for every thing you told us. From room six.
Casey's grandparents came to talk to us .We learnt alot I liked the putput boat. He showed us an old style of radio, I learnt that if you scratch a crystal you can pick up Radio Signals. He told us about how when he went to school he got in trouble and one time he got whipped on both hands 6 times in front of the whole school. Casey's Grandma must have been really good cause she only ever got whipped once.
Thankyou for coming to talk to us, Christian, Purple People Eater
Casey's grandparents came to talk to us .We learnt alot I liked the putput boat. He showed us an old style of radio, I learnt that if you scratch a crystal you can pick up Radio Signals. He told us about how when he went to school he got in trouble and one time he got whipped on both hands 6 times in front of the whole school. Casey's Grandma must have been really good cause she only ever got whipped once.
Thankyou for coming to talk to us, Christian, Purple People Eater
cameron said...
thank you casey's grandparents for comming to room 6 to talk about steam trains and the puttputt boat I liked the sound of the crystal radio.
I liked Casey's Grandparents coming because they told us a lot of information about vehicles and how they worked in the older days. It was very cool.
Casey's nana and grandad came to our class, they are very nice.grandad's knows alot of things I think it is because they are quite old and they see lots of things to learn about.i liked listening to casey's grandad.I would like to go to canada for the salmon fishing one day dad is going to take me.
Room 6's Purple People
Alicia and I really enjoyed meeting you and thank you all for the warm welcome. We both found your class room very interesting and a great environment to learn. I was seven when I made my first putt-putt motor the same as most of you. Good to see that one of you has made a putt-putt motor and another has brought in a toy boat with putt-putt motor. With such rapid changes in technologies, I wonder what stories you will be telling you grand children. Thank you all for the great Waa Whoo
Roy & Alicia (Casey's Grand parents)
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