http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang Welcome! ¡Bienvenida! Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:32:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Next week is our Ellis Island Simulation, a grade-wide event that is taking place on Tuesday, November 24th.  For the simulation, Mr. Andre and Ms. Gordon created 90 unique characters based on people who really immigrated over 100 years ago through Ellis Island! Every fourth grade student received their own ... http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/11/17/ellis-island-simulation/ Today we looked at the wonderful art of Joseph Cornell. Cornell was born in New York, in the early 1900s. Inspired by both nature and the city, Cornell crafted beautiful “boxes” throughout his life. Detailed and carefully planned, his intricate boxes have now become world-renowned pieces of art. Many themes ... http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/11/06/planning-our-e-b-white-box/ Vogelsang House has begun our Hero Essays. For this assignment, we are writing two paragraphs. The first paragraph answers the questions “What is a hero?” and includes details about specific heroes in our lives. The second paragraph answers the question: “Who is the hero of Charlotte’s Web?” The second paragraph ... http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/11/05/hero-essays/ Did you know that at one point in time, the Lower East Side was one of the most densely populated places on Earth?!? Over a century ago most of the immigrants in the Lower East Side came from Europe. Now the Lower East Side is home to immigrants from many ... http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/10/27/rompin-around-the-lower-east-side/ Vogelsang House had a blast in Black Rock Forest! We didn’t just learn that leaves are beautiful during Fall foliage, we also learned how to use leaves to identify trees. The edges, inside veins and outer lobes of a leaf can help us decipher one tree from the next. We ... http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/10/23/black-rock-forest/ We have launched our oral history project! Earlier this week, Vogelsang House brainstormed a list of questions to use as a guideline when conducting our  interviews. Yesterday, we had a special guest come in who shared her immigration experience from Ecuador with us. We used the questions we created as ... http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/10/08/oral-history-interviews-begin/ This week, we began annotating Charlotte's Web. Annotating allows us to take a deeper look into the text and all of the choices an amazing author like E.B. White made when writing, revising, and editing his classic story. As we annotate, we should be looking for the following items/literary devices: ... http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/10/01/charlottes-web-annotation/ Vogelsang House had an opportunity to interview each other and create Author Blurbs! Not only did we get to know our partners better, since they are displaced in the class, everyone who enters Vogelsang House has the opportunity to meet all of the amazing authors that comprise it! Check out ... http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/09/22/author-blurbs/ This year, we will talk a lot about IMMIGRATION! This week in class we talked about how you all recently immigrated from Little Dalton to Big Dalton! We discussed what that experience was like for us, and made "maps" to visually represent our journeys! An example of our maps is ... http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/09/18/mapping-our-journeys/ This is our house blog. I am impressed you found it already, wow! This site is currently under construction. But soon enough, it will be filled with colorful images and vivid entries to keep you entertained and informed.... Come back soon! http://blogs.dalton.org/vogelsang/2009/09/10/welcome-vogelsang-house/