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 [...]
Archive for March, 2007
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 [...]
Reading from Sea of Monsters by c15am: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Reading from The Million Dollar Shot by c15bw: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Reading by c15ck: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Reading from Endymion Spring by c15jg: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Reading from The Titan's Curse by c15of: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Reading from The Golden Compass by c15md: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadMs. 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today students recited their Amistad poems.
Afterwards, Natasha Trethewey, read and discussed some of her poems with the students.
c15os: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15of: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15sf: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15ec: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15ck: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15zb: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15ss: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15md: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15mb1: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15lk: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15jg: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15fl: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15hu: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15bw: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15am: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15ai: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download c15af: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Natasha Trethewey, Reading 1: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Natasha Trethewey, Reading 2: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSome 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. [...]
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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