Mrs Harvey: April 2014

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Wonder - Art. I'm looking forward to seeing what my class creates using this idea.

The students need to think creatively about the symbols that they could use that depict Augusts personality and life.

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

In class this term we are looking at the novel 'Wonder'. It is about a boy with a deformed face who is entering school for the first time. It is an amazing story and one I recommend to all readers. We are going to learn how to create our own Tagxedo's, discovere how to change the shape, font, colours and shape to personalise our key words.

Think

Blog comments

https://docs.google.com/file/d/1ZAZRoCt4wQPCpwLGDeaCD-l9IY8l_Hf9HfvNZR2SCELzKfAJFGBfdzc2DbK6/image?pagenumber=1&w=138

Making a Great Post and Even Better Comments

This is what we brainstormed:

What makes a good post?

Title
Date – automatic
Good information – facts – 5w+h
Punctuation – I (capitals) and .!?
Topical
Think about your audience
Easy to read
Not too long
Spelling – Language of Success
On the topicStructure – intro, paragraphs, conclusion
Descriptive language

Titles

Short and catchy –“Run for Life”
Rhyme is cool – “Kids Run for Fun”
Use capitals
Alliteration – “Crazy Cross Country for Kids’ Cancer”
“Finish Line on the Horizon” – visualise
"Kids Run 7km for Child Cancer”
"Daring Dash for Kids’ Cancer”
“Children Run Crazy for Kids’ Cancer”

We wrote posts about the cross country. See the blogs of Flynn, Bradley, Cullen, Tommy, Maisie, Finn, Antonio, Keenan, Thomas, Lewis, Jackson, Blaire and Mace.

Our next step was to listen to Mrs Yollis' students talk about making comments:

This is the list of criteria they used:

Comments

Compliment the writer – be specific
Add some information you know. Make a connection – “I’ve also run the cross country…”
Ask a question
Proofread

We wrote comments on each others posts and critiqued the comments.

From here:
Can we write good comments on other peoples' blogs?
Can we teach the rest of our class what we learned?

Happy blogging!

Using Bubbl.us for Brainstorms - Giving Instructions

Have a look at our student blogs where we experimented with https://bubbl.us/ to brainstorm giving good instructions

So what are the best blogs like?

Click on the picture to find out about blogs.

Do the quiz with the movie.

This year, a big part of our digital literacy programme will be sharing our learning with our community through the class blog. We are going to explore the blogs of classes who are blogging. This way, we will be able to decide how we want to use our blog and what we want it to look like. We will also be able to start making connections with other classes all over the world.