5B has been doing some incredible learning….and been so busy doing it that we haven’t kept up with our monthly newsletters to summarize our activities. We are going to explore how we can use our blog to communicate what we’re up to in class. We have been devoting 20 minutes weekly to keyboarding practice and 2 additional hours weekly to technology-based learning. Let’s apply this expertise to the goal of communicating what we’re learning.
Student Challenge:
Click on the Our News tab at the top of the page to read our essays. Kids will post at least one short essay every month. The essay should focus on something important that you’ve been learning. It should include a short intro, a body paragraph, and a conclusion. Your audience is the student/parent/teacher community of 5B and Oak Terrace. See the Expository Writing Rubric for evaluation criteria.
Parent Challenge:
Parents will check the blog for updates on 5B’s learning. Students will be able to earn bonus points by responding to conversation threads, so we invite you to enrich our discussions with a comment or question.
Teacher Challenge:
Mrs. Brady will be exploring the potential of this blog as a learning tool. This is a new forum for me and I am excited to learn more about how to use this as more than a place to post links I love. My aim is to post weekly updates and to include more and more features to increase communication and learning opportunities. Advice welcome!
**Additional note: Friday a permission slip was sent home to grant permission to publish students’ initials, photos, videos, and school work. Students who do not have a signed permission slip will contribute their essays in Word format for me to post on the blog, as we want to respect parents’ wishes regarding publication of student information.
