Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Edinger House 2008-2009

Published on June 11, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

We remember:

  • Blogging
  • Being scared the first time I came to the 9th floor
  • Writing my first blog post
  • The Alice Comics
  • Amistad Poems
  • Elizabeth Alexander’s visit to our school (shortly after she read her poem at President Obama’s inauguration)
  • Ellis Island Simulation
  • Our field trip to a farm on the second-to-last day of school, where we held baby chicks and saw a brand new calf
  • The Do You Know Books contest
  • Wizard of Oz Debate
  • Writing in our journals
  • The Alice Tea Party
  • Writing our Cindy stories
  • The Graveyard Book! We read the book, created a mural, influenced (we hope!) it winning the Newbery Award. 
  • When You Reach Me!  We hope this wins the Newbery next year
  • Reading aloud from Cosmic
  • The Underneath
  • Reading brand new (and sometimes not even released) books from Ms. Edinger, for example The Seems
  • Ladybugs
  • Blogging for Writing Skills
  • Margru
  • Weekly emails to Ms. Edinger (elephant)
  • Our Halloween Party! Our room was transformed into a spooky haunted house.
  • 1900 House
  • Colonial House
  • Charlie Chaplin and Marx Brothers movies during lunch

One More Post

Published on June 8, 2009 in Blog Posts. 0 Comments
Dear Edinger House,
You all took to blogs this year like ducks to water!  I can’t believe how easily you learned how to write posts, make links, podcasts, stick in images, and so much more! Hopefully, this won’t be your last chance to blog — in fact, I’m hoping some of you will be able to blog again as early as next year.  So today I want you to reflect on the blogging experience.  Begin by checking that you have all your posts published. Some of you still have posts in draft that you need to finish and publish.  Next go through your posts and think about what you learned doing them.  What did you especially like? What did you not like? What were your favorite parts of doing a blog? Would you like to do another blog next year? If so, what would you like it to be? (You might want to link to some of your favorite posts as you do this.)

Thanks for being super bloggers this year!

Ms. Edinger

Our Alice In Wonderland Comic

Published on June 8, 2009 in Alice in Wonderland. 0 Comments

Congratulations!  Your wonderful comics are all now published here!  I’m also putting the links to each comic on this post so you can easily go visit them.  They are wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

Chapter One

Chapters Two and Three

Chapter Four

Chapters Five and Six

Chapter Seven

Chapters Eight

Chapters Nine and Ten

Chapters Eleven and Twelve

Wizard of Oz Movie vs Book Debate

Published on June 3, 2009 in The Wizard of Oz. 0 Comments

Terrific debate, folks!  Tremendous points made by all of you!  Now you need to write YOUR reponse to the question in a blog post.  You can argue against the resolution, for it, agree with your own statements — or not.  Now is your chance to state your own opinion on this important topic.