Ms. Gallico - Grade: 4^th  - River Valley  Elementary – Lemont, IL, USA
Latitude/Longitude: 41.6736◦ N, 88.0017◦ W -- High/Low Temperature: 90◦/20◦
Website: River Valley web address: http://www.sd113a.org/

Ms. Gallico’s school address: http://www.sd113a.org/vnews/display.v/TP/502bdc50cdba1?cssfile=/teacherpages/Spring/default.css

Skype: Rebecca.gallico

Learning Global means to go to museums and learn interesting facts about history. Reinact things we have learned in school by learning and acting out cultures. Learn different languages. Being able to take pictures or videos to get real life experiences.

If we could use any type of technology it would be:
- an I-pad mini to play games and download learning apps. He would be able to use the internet so that he can look up information.
- A calculator so he can do fast math.
- A camera so he can remember what he has seen.

Dena Shaw’s 2^nd grade.  Hi!  We are SO excited about creating the Monster this year!  We are a 2^nd grade class at Astoria Grade School in Astoria, Illinois.  We are located at 40.2275° N, 90.3578° W. In January, our average temperature outside is 30 degrees.  In July, it is 75 degrees, according to http://www.areavibes.com/astoria-il/weather/.

Our class has 7 girls and 5 boys.  We all live in Astoria, but our teacher, Mrs. Shaw lives in Cuba, IL.   There are two 2nd grade classes in our school building and most of us have been together since preschool.  We like to play outside and have fun.  We also like to read.  We are working hard at the beginning of our school year.  

-          We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because everyone in the world is involved and that is a lot of people!

We are Miss Cawthon's 4th grade classes at St. Francis Solanus School. We are from Quincy, Illinois in the United States of America. We have two 4th grade classes at our school, and Miss Cawthon teaches both classes Social Studies. Our classes are filled with 25 students ages 9 - 10. We are a Catholic School with students in pre-school through 8th grade. We are located at 39.93 degrees North Latitude and 91.38 degrees West Longitude. We live right next to the Mississippi River, one of the longest rivers in North America. We have cold winters (about 25 - 30 degrees) and hot summers (85 - 100 degrees). It snows in the winter and we have humid, sticky summers.

In our free time, we enjoy playing sports like football, baseball, volleyball, and gymnastics. Our school day includes math, social studies, science, reading, english, and religion classes, Each week we have P.E., music, art, and computer classes. We go to Catholic mass twice a week and get to plan our own masses throughout the year.

1) We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because we get to meet new people from around the country and learn how their lives are similar and different from ours.

2) If our class Monster could use any kind of technology, it would be a cell phone because it could download apps to call and text its friends and maybe even teleport. 

jaclyn.cawthon@gmail.com 

Hello, we are Ms. Moran’s 7th and 8th grade class. Our class is made up of 6 students. We are excited about working as a team to create our class monster. We are located at United Junior High, Monmouth IL. 

Latitude and Longitude: 40.9117° N, 90.6444° W 

The warmest average month in this area is July. The average temperature in July is 86 degrees. The coldest average month is January. The average temperature in January is 16 degrees. 
As a class we answered the following questions. 

-We are Local when we learn and share at home, but when we are Global; everything changes because we share ideas with others outside of our area. 
- If our monster could use any kind of technology it would be an Xbox, a DS, a computer and a Fiat 500 because he could use the controllers of the Xbox to control other monsters.  He would use the DS for transporting messages to people.  The Fiat 500 would transform into a robot suit for him. Finally, the computer will be used by the monster to jump into so he can escape and transport.  

Thank you for allowing us to participate in this activity. -- Ms. Moran’s class

Homecoming Hat Day: All of the 4th grades at Canton Westview Elementary - Canton, Illinois

Greetings from Canton Westview School!! We are a spunky 4^th grade class from Canton, IL, USA!!

A few things about Canton: We are from a rural town of about 15,000 people in west central Illinois. There are lots of things to do in Canton, we have parks, a skate rink, a waterpark, a bowling alley and every year we have a town wide celebration called Friendship Festival!!

A few things about our class: There are 24 students in our class: 13 girls and 11 boys. Mrs. Pritchard is our teacher, she is pretty cool. We also have Miss Pennington; she is a pre-service teacher from Western Illinois University helping in our classroom this fall! Some things about us are that we like to play all kinds of games, anything from board games to video games! We also like to play outside, some of us like playing sports such as American football or just being outside enjoying the weather.  Latitude: 40° N, Longitude: 90° W

Some things we want to learn from you are: What is day to day life like? What kinds of clothes do you wear? What do you do for entertainment?
MM-Pennington@wiu.edu

Mrs. O'Brien and Ms. Chavez, preservice teacher: We live in Canton, IL, a small, rural town in Central IL.  

Latitude: 40°33′28″N - Longitude: 90°2′3″W

Our temperatures vary depending upon the season.  Winters can be as cold as 20 below zero (Fahrenheit) and summers can be as hot as 110 degrees Fahrenheit.  Right now it is Autumn and our temperatures range from 50-80.  The trees are all beginning to change colors.  Soon the leaves will begin falling. 

Our classroom is filled with zebra stripes and bright colors (pink being the teacher’s favorite). 

1. We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because we learn about other customs and cultures in addition to our own.  Now we have dreams of some day traveling to these other countries to meet new friends. 

2. If our Monster could use any kind of technology, it would be a very high tech iPhone, time traveling, super speed, flying machine with buttons to turn it into anything the Monster wanted.

Class webpage:  http://www.cantonusd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=499&Itemid=69

e-mail:  mobrien@cantonusd.org  i-chavez2@wiu.edu -- Skype name:  mobrien242000

  Skype: Mrs.heathermedina

Mrs. Gambino & Ms. Howe & art teacher Mrs. Latz - 4th grade -Cathedral of St. Raymond School 
Website is www.csrn.org.  Mrs. Allen's school blog address: http://csrncomputers.blogspot.com.  
Twitter and Skype id is: tdallen5. -- Email tallen@csrn.org  - Joliet, Illinois

Maureen Gibbons’ 4th Grade, Jaworek Elementary School, Marlborough, Massachusetts

We are a class of fourth graders at Jaworek Elementary School. The boys outnumber the girls, two to one. There are 7 girls and 14 boys in our class. Our teachers are Mrs. Gibbons and Mrs. Federico. We can speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Malayalam, a little German, Greek, and Czechoslovakian. For fun we speak Pig Latin. We like to learn about other countries and planets. We wonder if there is life on other planets. Maybe next year, an alien from space could join the Monster Project.

     Marlborough’s latitude is 42.3458 degrees N and our longitude is 71.5528 degrees W. It takes about 45 minutes to drive a car from Marlborough to Boston on the East Coast. Our summer temperatures can reach the high 90s, and we can go a few degrees below 0 in the winter. This week we have enjoyed pleasant temperatures in the high 70s to low 80s during the day, cooling down to about 50 degrees late at night. Based on our City of Marlborough 2010 census, we have rounded our population to about 38,000 people. Marlborough covers 22.2 square miles.  

      When we are local we visit our friends, neighbors, and families. We walk to school, ride the bus, or carpool. We buy our groceries at places like Price Choppers,Wegmans, the Food Pantry and local farm stands. We do a lot of the same things on weekends. Some of us have chores like raking leaves, taking out the  garbage, washing dishes, and vacuuming. We play a lot of sports like soccer, football and basketball. We also play video games, go shopping at the mall, and practice Teck Deck and skateboarding tricks. We like to visit friends, run in races and one of us does homework.

      When we are global, we send emails to people who are sleeping when we are going to school. Technology helps us to talk to people at all different times of the day. We will learn about other languages, holidays and cultures. We already noticed that some schools use the Metric System for measurement and others use the US Customary System. We use 21^st century technology when we use iPhones, iPods, Nintendo games, tablets, and computers. We can Skype to see and chat with other classes and email each other with pictures and videos.

We look forward to seeing your monsters!

Our web address is: http://teacherweb.com/MA/ Jaworek/MaureenGibbons

If you go onto the site, www.sdst.org and check out the teacher’s sites, you will find ours! Erin thinks that she is the most awesome person in the world. We have nine boys in our class and 11 girls. Miss Boles is a girl too. We have stuffed animals in our classroom. One of them, the bull, just returned from the emergency room. We are a fun class and we cannot WAIT to get started.  

We are Local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because we get to know other people and cultures. If our class Monster could use any kind of technology, it would be an iPhone or android because we want the monster to be able to text, play games, and talk to his mommy. Thank you!

This is Miss McFarland’s, fourth grade class. We are the most awesome class at Erdenheim Elementary School and we are so excited to make a huge, crazy, scary, fun, playful and 3-D monster!

We are located about 16 miles from Philadelphia, PA. Some exciting things you can see and do there are the Liberty Bell, the Philadelphia Zoo (the oldest zoo in America), go to the Eagles, Phillies and Flyers game. It was home to the first White House. We also have the best cheesesteaks and soft pretzels in the world!

We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are global everything changes because there are more people to talk and share ideas with and we get to learn about different cultures.

If our monster could use any type of technology, it would be:

1.    IPAD so it could play games and music

2.   Computer so it could play and talk with other monsters online

3.   Teleportation so it could go into the future and bring back lots of wacky things, such as a Nike Elite phone

4.   IPhone so that it could talk to his monster friends
5.   Pizza making oven so it could have a pizza party with his monster friends and because it is yummy!

We are Mrs. Dallinga’s class from Erdenheim Elementary, Springfield Township School District. We are located 40 degrees N and 75 degrees W.  We are in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, in the suburbs. We have twenty students in our fourth grade class. Most of us are nine years old.  We like to play outside, draw, read, and partner up.  Many of us like Gym as our favorite special subject.

We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are global, everything changes because:

-we all work together
-people in different countries speak different languages, so we have to work harder to understand each other.
-we can share our ideas.

If our class Monster could use any kind of technology, it would be remote control cars because it could move around.  Also, magnetic hands, so it could grab things.  It would have a jet pack, so it could fly.  It could use a computer chip to make it smart. Also, it could use robotic wings to make it look like it was flapping.

Our class website:  https://sites.google.com/a/ sdst.org/dallinga/home/

Mrs. Odom's second grade class is from Majestic Way Elementary school located in sunny San Jose, California. The average annual high temperatures here are 71 degrees and average annual low temperatures are 49 degrees. There are 23 students in our classroom, twelve boys and eleven girls. 

We are excited to join this global project. One reason is that our community is incredibly diverse and we understand and experience the benefits of working with people from different cultures. Our classroom alone has nine nationalities including Chinese, European, Hispanic, Korean, Vietnamese, Asian Indian, Filipino, Cambodian and African-American. 

You can visit our classroom website on http://bit.ly/mrsodom or brand new blog at kidblog.org/MrsOdom-3 . We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because it allows us to communicate with children from around the world and make new friends. If our monster could use any kind of technology it would be an iPad because iPads can do a lot of things like take pictures, listen to music, you can draw on it, and play games.

Latitude: 37 N -- Longitude 122 W

I am Mrs. Tina Fink .   I teach  three 5^th grade classes at  Our Lady Queen of Heaven School in Lake Charles, Louisiana. .  We have a total of 64 students.   Here in Louisiana the average temp. can be as low as 32 degrees in winter and a high of 98-100 degrees in summer.  We’re located at 30.22 N. Lat. And 93.21 W. Long.  You can reach us at tfink@olqhs.org  

1) We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because......we all become united as one.

2) If our class Monster could use any kind of technology, it would be a teleporter so he can travel around the world to help anyone in need. 

Our skype:  tfink.olqhs

Mr. Ferguson's fourth grade of 18 children (5 boys and 13 girls) may line up backwards and not wear school uniforms but we are always moving forward toward our goal of being passionate learners. We love love love to read and have set reading goals. Recently in science we had the mission of raising monarch caterpillars and tagging them to learn about life cycles. 

Outside the classroom, our school is nestled in the White Mountains and Mt. Lafayette and Cannon Mountain tower over us as we have recess. (2 times a day baby!) When snow covers the mountains, we disperse from the classroom into the great outdoors.  Latitude 44° N -- Longitude 71° W

For six Fridays our school is going downhill skiing, Nordic, and etc... 
We would love to hear from you. Have fun building the monster. 
Thanks for Listening - Mr. Ferguson

Garret Ferguson, 4th Grade Teacher, Lafayette Regional School, Franconia, New Hampshire
email:  gferguson@lafayetteregional. org | skype: lafayette41

Mrs Kylie Daemmrich and Mrs Julie Perez’s fourth grade classes of 33 nine and ten year olds are building our fifth monster at St Mary’s Visitation School in Elm Grove, Wisconsin, USA.  You can visit our class blog to see other projects we do throughout the year.  Our city’s latitude and longitude are 43° 2' 35" N / 88° 4' 44" W.

Our class studies math, science, social studies, reading/language arts, religion, art, and computers.  We go to other teachers to learn music, Spanish, and physical education.  Our school is a S.T.E.M. school (science, technology, engineering, and math) and we get to work with field experts several times throughout the year.  We like meeting and talking with students from other schools.

We are local when we learn and share at home, but when we are global everything changes because…
-our learning moves outside our classroom.
-we meet students and teachers from around our state, country and planet and learn about their cultures.
-we make connections with people and content we can’t make inside our textbooks.  

If our class Monster could use any type of technology it would be a time traveler because he could go to any time in history.  We also think he would use an iPhone 5C to connect with monster friends and learn using educational apps.

Email us at kdaemmrich@stmaryeg.org or jperez@stmaryeg.org if you’re interested in Skyping (smv421) with us or playing chess via email.

See Room 7's Monster Video Drama!

Room 7 has many students from different grade levels 6, 7 and 8,which affects the way we learn. Mrs. Wand likes to teach through creative and fun projects. We use project based learning to learn how to work together. For example, the classroom is working on a garden project. We have a small plot in the Webster Groves community garden where we can learn about plants and will be responsible for planting in the spring. Currently kale, broccoli, pumpkins, collards and pesky weeds are growing in the garden.

  The students in room 7 learn regular school subjects, but also have activities that most schools do not have like hand therapy, sensory diet, and crossing midline. We learn social skills and are grouped into classrooms by our social and learning needs. Room 7 is a community for learning and building relationships. We made a friendship bread mix and shared it with other classes. We work in a bright, cheery classroom and Mrs. Wand tells us that our laughter and smiles make the classroom even brighter.

We are excited to participate in the monster project and hope everyone involved has fun building the monster. We hope we get to know your class throughout the process.

Jenny Wand, Miriam School, St. Louis, MO USA -- 38.6272° N, 90.1978° W
website: https://sites.google.com/a/miriamschool.org/miriamteachers/room-7
twitter: MiriamRoom7 -- blog: http://miriamrm7.edublogs.org/

We are the fourth grade students of Eugene Field Elementary in Hannibal, Missouri.  The latitude and longitude of Hannibal, Missouri is:  39° 42' 29" N / 91° 21' 29" W.  There are 20 students in our class; we only have 4 girls and 16 boys!  

At our school we study the “Big 3” which are safe, respectful, and responsible.  We also study the 7 Covey habits to prepare us to be leaders of our world!  Mrs. McGuire is our teacher and Ms. Huseman is our awesome science teacher!  Ms. Huseman is the expert at our school on global projects!  We are looking forward to working on our MONSTER!

Hi we are Ms. Baden’s PreK/Kindergarten class from Lake Asbury Elementary School located in Green Cove Springs, Florida. Our school mascot is Rams. We are a small class of 6 with 1 teacher (Ms. Baden) and 2 assistants (Mrs. Stravato and Ms. Brandau). We are very active and love to work on computers and do hands on activities. 

We are located at 30.052914 degrees latitude and -81.81629 degrees longitude. The temperature here can get into the high 90’s and sometimes can go into the 20’s (though that doesn’t happen very often).

We are LOCAL when we learn and share at home, but when we are GLOBAL, everything changes because the world opens up to us.

If our class MONSTER could use any kind of technology, it would be the computer because computers allow us to communicate to others.