Spring Break is Here

Let the blogging commence!  Many students are already making posts and comments on their blogs.  I love how the students are engaging in experiential... Well, I don't know if I want to say the L-word because they might stop.  To log into the website this next link allows students to access the website on its login page.  Students, here is your suggested extended school activity: 

What can you post over the break?  Remember how we used to write Quick Write Nights?  Well, you can write your daily or nightly thoughts here.  We can call them Quick Blog Logs.   Then, you can keep track of everything you are doing over the break.  These could be mini-personal narratives.  Details you can include in your writing:

• The 5-W's (who, what, when, where, why)
• 5-senses (Showing Sentences)
• Numbers
• Names
• Descriptions
• Definitions
• Feelings
• Comparisons (Metaphors or Similes)
• Proof, evidence, or support
• Real examples

Try to include pictures.  Whenever you create a blog post, there is an option to upload/insert images, video, audio, and files.  However, you can't upload too many pictures.  This blog site only has so much memory.  The blog will eventually become overloaded and we won't be able to post.  So, try to limit the number of pictures you post.

Read other students posts and make comments on their writing.  Maybe you will be part of their writing.   Overall, try to create an awesome blog that everyone wants to read.  The best posts will probably get the most comments.

Mr. Gibson

Hink Pinks

I'm sorry if you were looking forward to receive a Friday Letter today, but there was a fire drill during writing. So, we discussed rhyming and how to write a hink pink joke. Say what?

The directions above explain how to write one.  The students wrote and illustrated a page for a classroom hink pink book.  Pictures are displayed below.