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For Our QuadBlogging Partners: Hurricane Sandy

Our dear QuadBlogging buddies have been inquiring about the hurricane and hoping we are well. Thank you!

We did miss a day of school because of the storm, with all the power outages and broken branches in the roads, but we are all safe and sound. People to the south of us had many more problems with flooding and destruction than we did in New England. We are so thankful that our homes and school are all okay.

Here is a nifty wind map that we enjoyed watching during the storm. Of course, it is quiet now, but during the storm it showed the swirls of the hurricane. It is meant to be more artistic than scientific, but we thought you might enjoy seeing it.

Our highest New England mountain, Mount Washington, was famous for being the windiest spot on earth until just recently when a cyclone in Australia beat our record. So QuadBlogging partners in Australia, that is one thing we share–wind! During Hurricane Sandy, Mount Washington’s highest wind gust was 140 miles per hour. This weather article shows the report from during the hurricane as well as what the artistic wind map looked like during the storm.

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Welcome to QuadBlogging!  We are matched up with three other classes from around the world, and each week we will focus on one group’s writing pieces.  Three weeks of reading and making quality comments are followed by one week of receiving comments on our writing from all of them!  We can’t wait to meet them, to read their work, and to hear what they think about our writing.

Just click on the links to your right to view our partners’ blogs. We will be introducing ourselves to them as soon as school starts, and then we’ll write, write, write!

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Here are our first QuadBlogging partners introducing themselves:

Hello from one of your QuadBlogging partners in the UK!

We are the Saplings from braishfield Primary school near Romsey in the South of England.

We use our first names only on our blog, and we have one big blog for our entire class of 28 pupils. We are aged 7,8 and 9 years which is Year 3 and 4 in the UK. We are a small school with 4 classes.

At playtime (recess) we like to play football, tag, skipping, pretending, hulahoops, basketball, rugby, netball, tennis. We’d love to hear about some of your games! What’s Gaga?

Braishfield is a village in the countryside, its popular for farming but we don’t have mountains or snow!

Common animals near us are cows, horses, pheasants, sheep, pigs, peacocks, garden birds, owls, squirrels, foxes, rabbits, badgers, hedgehogs and deer. We were VERY excited to hear you have bears, chipmunks and moose. We had to Google chickadees!

We can’t wait to read your blog more. We have a challenge for you if you check our blog!

Saplings

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QuadBlogging!

Welcome to QuadBlogging!  We are matched up with three other classes from around the world, and each week we will focus on one group’s writing pieces.  Three weeks of reading and making quality comments are followed by one week of receiving comments on our writing from all of them!  We can’t wait to meet them, to read their work, and to hear what they think about our writing.