Archive for March, 2007

Mourt’s Relation Illustrations

We’ve just finished reading a few pages of Mourt’s Relation, one of the primary sources about and by the original Mayflower passengers. We “translated” the old words and strange spelling to figure it all out. Then we each took a line or two and illustrated it. Now each student has scanned [...]

Cinderella Stories

Today you will (hurray — at last!) post your Cindy stories.
Go to the Edinger House Account, then to the Cindy folder where you will find a “readyforblogs” folder with all your stories inside.
Copy your story into a post. Be sure to give it a title!
Format if necessary.
Post!
Now go to at least three other blogs (we [...]

Literary Salon, 03/15/07


 
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Bon voyage to Blogical Minds!

Ms. Edinger and I have been looking for other student blogs for you to visit, and we found Blogical Minds from a fifth grade class in Georgia, USA.
1. Visit one of the of the student blogs at Blogical Minds.
2. While you are there, take notes about it in a MS word document. Can you answer [...]

Comment Starters

We’ve talked some about commenting on others’ blogs, and you might find these “comment starters” helpful. I found them on the WebQuest, Blogging: It’s Elementary!.
Try them out when commenting on someone else’s blog:

I can relate to this…
This makes me think of…
I discovered…
I don’t understand…
I was reminded that…
I found myself wondering…
p.s. I found the link [...]

Posting Possibilities

You are welcome to write posts on the following topics:

Reviews of books, movies, and plays.
Visits to other class blogs from the list on the right. (Give us a sense of what those classrooms are like. How are they similar or different from ours?)
Visits to any of the Alice sites I found. (Let us know what [...]

A Very Special Literary Salon, 03/07/07

Today students recited their Amistad poems.

Afterwards, Natasha Trethewey, read and discussed some of her poems with the students.

 
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On Tour

Some of us have been visiting other class blogs and reporting on these visits on our blogs. Hopefully more will soon! (And by the way, you need to do more than link to someone else’s blog — you need to report on your visit. That is, write about it as these students did. [...]

Alice in Wonderland

Now that we are well into Alice here are some fun sites for you to visit. You may do this during lab (after checking with me first, of course) or at home. Enjoy!
Many Faces of Alice
Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland Site
Alice’s Adventures On-Line
Bedtime Story Classics: Alice
TextArc: Read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
An Interactive Adventure
Storybook England [...]





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