Operation Jigsaw

• Our year-long collaborative project focusing on introducing each of our nine Grade 5 schools.  Students will investigate "pieces" of each community and as a group "put the puzzle together." 
• Arkansas: http://home.earthlink.net/~mwsjb/DiscoverAR.htm
• Toronto, Ontario: All You Ever Wanted to Know about Toronto and more!
• Blount County, Alabama: Alabama the Beautiful!
• Calgary, Alberta: Calgary's Quiz
• Brooklyn, New York: NYC crossword questions, empty puzzle
• Vancouver, British Columbia: Vancouver Connection
• Lloydminster, Alberta: Lloydminster Quiz
• O'Neill, Nebraska: http://www.esu8.org/~oneill/5/oneilljigsaw.htm

Border Buddies

• Email pals from Lloyd-Minster, Alberta, Canada will exchange messages and questions with us throughout the school year.
• Link for email accounts: http://www.gaggle.net

SMARTer Solutions

• Link: http://barrcolony.lpsd.ca/smarter_solutions.htm 
• This "Question of the Week" program is designed to challenge students to think globally.

SMARTerkids.org Bulletin Board

• Link: http://www.smarterkids.org/board/
• Log in to communicate with other Connections schools on a variety of topics!

• Link to spreadsheet and graphs
• While studying comparing and ordering numbers in Math, we graphed and analyzed data about the 2002-2004 Connections schools

Progressive Story Writing

• Our story, created collaboratively between Barr Colony and O'Neill Elementary 5th grade classes.