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Edublogs Class Blogging Challenge: Week 1

Dear Students,

Welcome to week one of the Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge!  Our class blog was mentioned in the week 1 challenge, we’ve already had one visitor from another participating class, the Technology Threaders, and I’m hoping we make more connections this week!

The week 1 challenge is the creation of an about page.  Last year, we created one as a class, and we might decide to keep some things the same.  However, it’s important to me that our “About” page reflect who we are as a class this year–and that means I need feedback from you.

I invite you to visit and read the “About” pages of the other class blogs featured in this week’s challenge.  You can also look up other classes that are participating in the class blog challenge.

What do you notice about others’ “About ” pages that you like and would like to see included on our “About” page?  What suggestions do you have for how we might change ours?

I look forward to hearing your ideas!

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Since School Began, …

Since the first day of school I loved sixth grade. The classroom was all set up, decorated, and ready for the beginning of what all the students hoped to be the best school year ever. I was very excited that I would be moving between two classes, my home room class which teaches math and science, and my second class, which teaches writing and social studies.

On the first day of school something I have never experienced before happened, I liked school! This feeling, the feeling were you actually feel welcome, is one of the most powerful feelings school can make you feel. Because of that feeling, I now feel more confident than ever to do my best, and make it through sixth grade.

After the beginning of the school year had passed and all the hurricanes of coming back to school had settled into a gentle breeze, we began to begin our work on the sixth grade standards. The first real project that we worked on was a history project where the cut out bones of something and tried to put them into a skeleton of what we later learned was a 3 million year old Australopithecus afarensis, the skeleton was incomplete but the found around 40% of it!  The activity was really fun and I’m looks forward to the rest of the school year.