The Life and Times of a Fourth Grade Class at the Dalton School in New York City
Today for Literary Salon we did a class reading of Eve Bunting’s picture book, How Many Days to America? We had hoped to do this with our third grade buddies, but we weren’t able to coordinate our schedules. So instead we did a podcast for them. We hope they listen to it and them perhaps will do one for us! Then we can listen to theirs while looking at the whole book. It is a perfect book to read right before Thanksgiving, especially when studying immigration. Here is our podcast:
Today the members of Edinger House, relatively new Big Dalton citizens, were interviewed by their third grade buddies about their experiences immigrating to the Middle School. It was challenging to do because of space constraints and technology issues. Thanks so much to Craig, Ms. Nickles, Tracy and Julia, Ms. Levinthan, Ms. Kirsch and all those who helped with this.
The interviews are wonderful! Because they were done in crowded conditions, some may be a bit soft and/or otherwise difficult to hear. If they are hard to hear, I recommend using headphones — you can hear them all beautifully that way. And they are very worth hearing, I assure you. Congratulations to all!
To hear the interviews click on the following links:
Tomorrow morning your buddies from House 43 at The First Program are visiting! Each of your 3rd grade buddies has prepared a set of questions to ask you about 4th Grade. You are going to record the interview in your First Class email account and then post it on your blog.
First, let’s review how to record an audio file in FirstClass. (Click this link to go to the Email FAQ.)
Second, let’s review how to upload an audio file (podcast) to your blog.
Now that we’ve reviewed, you are going to prepare your blog posts for tomorrow. Let’s brainstorm some ideas to include in your blog post introduction:
Our third grade buddies have a class blog now too! You may especially enjoying this post about the collaborative posts you did with them a few weeks ago.
