17
November
2009
Our students have received their requirements and expectations for their “Sandwich Book Reports” today! Many students are fired up and ready to start making delicious brain food!
We have a new addition to our student blogroll
daren28.edublogs.org/ This is the blog for our class D.A.R.E mascot. What is this? Surf on over and check it out!
Mrs. Benjamin found a great idea for writing better paragraphs on Mrs. Yollis’ blog
http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/
We are going to begin writing biographies for our turkeys that we made last week!
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10
November
2009
And very little time to blog!
We got caught up in three weeks of testing, so we are working to get back to our old routine. Some things we are working on that you may be interested in:
1) We have created a class wiki! The address is http://mrsbenjamin.wikipaces.com We are using it to organize our November History project. The project is going to culminate in a Thirteen Colonies Tourism Show! We are going to invite other fifth grades to come in and see what it would be like to travel back in time and visit on of the original thirteen American colonies as if they were tourists. As an incentive, each visitor is going to be asked to vote on the destination they would like to go back and visit. The winning colony is going to get a special treat! We will be posting our progress here and on our individual blogs.
2) We have a book report project coming up! Our first report involves making a Book Report Sandwich!
3) Students are planning their Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast! Keep an eye out on student blogs for their menus!
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9
October
2009
Our students have been hard at work doing state testing (called NECAP) this week, so we haven’t been able to spend much time hanging out in the wwwniverse.
As it is a holiday weekend, I’m hoping students will be able to take some time to blog!
If you get a chance, check out http://nickd10.edublogs.org ’s post about super heroes. He’s asking folks what powers they would like to have. I’ve also included a link (found at Mrs. Randall’s class blog http://www.45rworkingstars.blogspot.com/ ) for a hero creator! What fun!
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3
October
2009
Isnt it funny how we seem to have beautiful school weeks, then the weekends tend to be washouts?
In light of that, please leave a comment on this post suggesting some fun things to do at home when the weather is less than cooperative!
One restriction – watching TV and playing video games are OUT. However, blogging and checking out other blogs (and leaving thoughtful, interesting comments are IN! This week, we will learn how to link to other blogs, and perhaps I will give you the magic password so you can add interesting blog links to our Delicious social bookmarking page!).
GO!
Mrs. B.
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30
September
2009
After you have finished typing your blog entry, look over to the right side of the screen.
Under the blue “submit for review” button.
See that “Post Tags” box?
You type in the tag you want to use (remember, ONE WORD) and click “add”.
You now have a tag!
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26
September
2009
Almost all of our students now have personal blogs! Take a peek at our blogroll and see who will be posting to the web very soon! As we have a blogroll now, we’ve completed yet another challenge in the Student Blogging Challenge. I hope my students do some poking around at some other class blogs and leave some thoughtful comments for our new global friends!
Also, as of this morning (Saturday 9/26), no one has made their first post on their personal blog. I am setting a mini-challenge for my students, the first person to make a well-written first post on their blog will get an automatic DOUBLE clip-up on Monday morning! That’s a first! I will know who made the post from their time stamp, so if you are reading this, get on your dashboard, click the “Posts” arrow, then click “Add New” and start typing! ( Comments do NOT count for this morning, Tona! 
I approved yours this morning!)
What are you waiting for? Get posting!!!!
And for visitors, if you stopped by to have a peek, please leave a comment. We are looking for new blogs to read and comment on!
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18
September
2009
We are cruising right along in school! We are working on multiplication and division in math, reading a lot and will start our official spelling groups next week!
Since we only have one computer in our classroom, we decided it would be easier for the time being to split up into “blog watching” groups. We are currently reading and commenting on
Mr. Toft’s Blog
Mr. Mayhew’s Blog
Miss Rizzi’s Blog
Mrs. Randall’s Blog
Mr. Barrett’s Blog
We will be adding more to this list as we get better at blogging!
One widgit we added was Google Translator. This will enable people from all over the world to read our website in their own language! As we have students with family in faraway places like Portugal, Nigeria and Panama, we hope this tool will be useful to them.
Have a great weekend!
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11
September
2009
and it feels as if we’ve been together for a few months now! Everything is going so smoothly! I credit the hard work and fantastic behavior of every single student in our room. Let’s keep it up!
Today we really started discussing the concept of a class blog. We have gotten comments from a number of other bloggers from around the world! If you stopped by to read this page, whether you are a member of Room 28, a parent or relative, another student in our school, or from somewhere else around the world, PLEASE take a moment to leave a comment. Just scroll to the bottom of the entry and go!
A goal I have set for the class for next week is to explore some other class blogs that are participating in the Student Blogging Challenge http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2009/08/25/join-the-student-blogging-challenge-now-starts-sept-6/ and asking each student to leave one positive comment linked back to our class blog.
At this time, we don’t have our individual blogs up and running yet. We need to be a bit more comfortable with exactly WHAT a blog is and how we can make the most of it. Be patient!
Have a great weekend and thank you for visiting!
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5
September
2009
We are very excited to leap into the new frontier of blogging! Please bookmark our site and come back to see class news, projects, and all kinds of cool surprises!
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