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2010 4th Grade Stories

Roxanne Feldman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:47:36 +0000

Each year, as a component of a Library Class Unit for the fourth graders to examine the similarities and differences of online- and paper-publishing, each fourth grade House makes up a class story (Each student contributes one line of the story and we go around the room until everyone has had a go.)

It also serves as a way to examine how web pages are indexed and found on search engines such as google and yahoo.

A Weird Morning, or The Appendix Eating Dinosaur – by Noble House, composed on Tuesday, February 2nd. By Tuesday, February 9th, we still cannot locate this story on Google. This blog PAGE is linked to the MS Library’s Blog on Tuesday, February 9th.

We used the key phrases “A weird morning” and “The appendix eating dinosaur”.

Younge House’s story is called “Wario Man Cuts the Cheese.” And even in late April, the story is still not directly indexed on Google.

Never Have Surgery Before Your Belly Dancing Class – by Vogelsang House, composed on Tuesday, February 2nd. By Tuesday, February 9th, we cannot locate this story on Google.

My Pet Chicken and His Gun – by Farnsworth House, composed on Friday, February 5th. By 12:15 p.m. on Friday, February 12th, we cannot locate this story on Google even when we typed in the exact title in quotation marks. We made a link on the MS Library’s blog site. At 12:30, Richard D. tried again. He typed in My Pet Chicken and His Gun by Farnsworth House — and voila, we found it!

Can you find them all?

Roxanne Feldman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:07:50 +0000

These are the many types of books that we have in the MS Library. Many of them have special genre stickers. Do you know where they all are?

Here is the list of most of the MS Library sections, grouped by location proximity:

Reference, Biography and Nonfiction

Horror, Suspense, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Paperback Fiction

Hardcover Fiction (in the Reading Room)

Classics and Humor (on the Balcony)

Noble House Story

Roxanne Feldman — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:26:40 +0000

This is a page made by the 2008-2009 school year 4th Grade Noble House at Dalton during one Library Class session.

We titled this:

One Morning… OR How I Killed Bush
(These two titles got equal votes from the House.)

Yesterday morning, I woke up and looked out the window. I saw a pig and an elephant flying. They were on top of each other and they only had two wings in total. The elephant was blue. And they were both wearing tutus. And the pig had a mental illness. But then, a big bird named Big Bird that was vomit colored smashed them out of the sky.

I thought, “What’s going on!” so I went out to check it out. They fell right outside my house and made a huge crater. The elephant’s tutu fell off. And then there was a pig-and-elephant shaped tree in my backyard.

I was surprised because that tree grew pigs and elephants. They all had one wing each and the pigs had mental illnesses. I looked at the crater and saw an old man laying down.
And then another elephant hit the guy. Then the tree exploded and all the pigs and elephants went flying up. But I caught one and ate it for breakfast.

THE END