http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger The Life and Times of a Fourth Grade Class at the Dalton School in New York City Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:11:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today you are going to begin transcribing your oral history interview!  Here are some tips to make it easy: Write on ONE side of the paper. Skip lines between each question and each answer. This will make it much easier to read. Use script or print --- whatever is easiest for you and ... http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/10/07/transcribing-your-oral-history-interview/ Today I guided you through a close reading of Chapter One of Charlotte's Web.  Here is what we did! http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/09/23/annotating-charlottes-web/ And here are the other two! http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/09/22/our-very-first-literary-salon-podcast-continued/ Today seven members of Edinger House prepared readings for our Literary Salon.  And here are five are for you to listen and enjoy (and the other two are in the next post)! http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/09/22/our-very-first-literary-salon-podcast/ Our very first field trip is just around the corner!!  It is to Ellis Island on Friday, October 3rd and the whole grade is going together.  Here are the details for the trip: WEATHER: Even though the weather has been fairly warm, children should bring a jacket or sweater as the ferry ... http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/09/22/ellis-island-field-trip/ Today we looked at last year's class's oral history questions and revised them for this year's interviews. Here you can see the old questions and our revisions: Oral History Interview Questions Edinger House Fall 2008 Old Country Where did you come from and when? What was the reason you came to America? What was your old country like? ... http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/09/18/our-oral-history-interview-questions/ Here's Ms. Stokien's final draft: Monica Ruth Edinger, a very interesting fourth grade teacher at the Dalton School, was born in North Carolina.  She moved around a lot because her father was a professor and taught in many different places.  She now lives on the Upper Westside of New York City ... http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/09/12/author-blurbs-final-draft-and-published-work/ Often books have one or two paragraphs about the author, which are called blurbs. In fact, there are people who specialize in writing blurbs. It is a tricky job because the blurb writer wants to provide as much interesting information as possible about the author in one or two paragraphs. For ... http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/09/10/author-blurbs-the-interview/ Today you are going to begin your very first literature unit in fourth grade, a study of the children's books of E. B. White.  You can read an overview of the assignment here.   To begin I will be giving each of you a copy of Charlotte's Web to read ... http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/09/09/beginning-e-b-white/ Hello Everyone!  In a few more days we will all be coming together in Room 909 for an exciting new school year. I met some of you last year as you were on our buddy house and I'm looking forward to meeting the rest of you too. I've already ... http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/2008/09/04/welcome-edinger-house-08-09/