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Year 5: What's so special about the USA?
What's so special about the USA?
In the summer term, Year 5 pupils will be linking classrooms with Heritage Elementary School, Escondido, California to find out what is so special about the USA! We will be comparing and contrasting our local environments, climates and cultures. We will also be learning about American sports and compared these with sports we play in England.
Our link school:
Year 5's Exchange Work: 2017/18
Our introductory videos:
British Buddies 2018
Hello British Buddies! We loved watching your video and hope you like ours. Cannot wait to get to know you all better and to learn all about London! :) Your friends, 4th Grade Flight Crew San Diego, CA - Feel free to watch the other videos on our channel.
Comparing our climates:
What are our favourite sports?
Can you guess which Word Cloud is created by our US partners?
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Year 5's exchange work: 2016/17
In the summer term of 2017, Year 5 pupils linked classrooms with Heritage Elementary School, Escondido, California to find out what is so special about the USA! We compared and contrasted our local environments, climates and cultures to see how these can influence the way we spend our free time.
The geography of Escondido vs London
What main differences and/or similarities do you notice between the location of Escondido compared to London? Think about the clues on the maps e.g. oceans, rivers, green space, roads, nearby town/cities.
Escondido, California, USA
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Ealing, London, United Kingdom
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The climate of Escondido vs London
What main differences and/or similarities do you notice in climate between Escondido (San Diego) and London? Look carefully the scales on the axis of the graph.
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Shared learning between Fielding Primary School & Heritage K-8
Heritage K-8 want to know more about England!
Questions from Heritage K-8
May 2017: Fielding ask Heritage K-8 a few questions to help them research their topic
Heritage K-8 answer our questions
May 2017: A comparison of how we did spend our free time
What are the similarities and differences between the way we spend our free time. How much of that is influenced by our local environment, climate and culture?
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April 2017: Fielding and Heritage K-8 share videos and pictures about themselves and their schools
Pupils have been making videos to present themselves at their schools. Enjoy!
