What better way to finish out the week before vacation than with a little virtual reality! The Hope Valley PTO was generous enough to buy us one classroom set of virtual reality headsets and over 300 locations to explore. So we decided to take them for a test run and we had a blast! During fourth grade integrated Spanish with Mrs. Foggo, we have been learning about volcanoes. Last week we read a Scholastic News article in Spanish about Colima Volcano in Mexico and how it recently erupted. You can click here to see the video that we watched of the volcano erupting. Colima Volcano has been very active in the past few years and the eruption in the video was from January 19th. Today we took a Virtual Reality tour of Volcanoes all throughout the Ring of Fire. While we did not see Colima, one volcano we did see was Popocatepetl in Mexico. Other areas with high volcanic activity are Hawaii and Japan. We learned that the word volcano comes from the Greek God Vulcan who was the God of fire. The Spanish word for volcano - Volcan - is even more closely related to the name Vulcan. Check out the pictures below of our fun experience with the headsets today! Have a great vacation!
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La Autora¡Hola! My name is Dori Carpenter. I teach K-4 Spanish at Hope Valley and Ashaway Elementary Schools in the Chariho Regional School District. I began teaching high school Spanish in 2010 and have been teaching at the elementary level in Chariho since 2014. I studied Spanish and Secondary Education at Providence College and The University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. Archives
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