It’s time to make your Book Club selection! After gathering some of your ideas and creating groups, now you can vote and we’ll get the groups formed next.
You may vote one time.
All Sixth Graders have been blogging and doing amazingly well! The first goal for each student is to have two posts finished. The first post was a Free Choice. This means it was a topic of their own choice to get some words on the page. Lots of great different ideas! The second post was a Book Review. Look for a category in the side bar of "My Books", "Book Review", or something similar. This is the category that we'll keep adding to as we continue reading. Besides adding a category, there should also be a picture of the book cover. This required using the "Add Media" function and choosing alignment and size of image. Love to read, love to write, and we'd all love to have your comments of quality!
This has been an awesome start to the year 2023-24. There are three Sixth Grade classes so that means a new plan of action! Each group has a rotation of three classes so they’ll be in Media Lab every third week. We have outstanding current and NEW students, too! (I do have a heart for new students since I moved many times growing up and know how it is to be new!) A big WELCOME to all EAGLES!
The first quarter ends this week. Wow, time flies! We’ve gotten beginning-of-year assessments in, started Secondary Edutyping, had a Class Blog intro, currently working on customizing our sites and writing first posts. Now we’ll add in focusing some time on Digital Citizenship this month of October. Oh, and did I mention one of the best uses of our time…READING! It’s the best way to start class time – reading, book checkout, book talks, and now with the blogs started we will be making a category for our Reading Responses and Book Reflections, too.
HOCO next week! Observing Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday, Tues – Fri Special Dress Days. Friday Parade and Pep Rally and Friday night lights game time! GO EAGLES!
God bless our 2023-2024 school year! Prayers for a year of soaring success, friendships, and growth!
See you in the Media Lab!
Mrs. Peterson
As a final post from 6B 2023, the students are interviewing a classmate with questions & answers to reflect on the year.
Questions such as:
We’ve been working with the Scratch coding program. So much to experiment with and create!
Our first “official” task is to Animate a Name.
Each name animation will have:
Color Clicker
Spin
Play a Sound
Dancing Letter
Change Size
Press a Key
and Glide Around
Check out the amazing work by clicking on the Scratch link in each student’s blog post about this!
Way to go, Sixth Graders! We are off and running with blogs, both 6A and 6B now. Everyone has been blogging about Past, Present, Future for the first topic.
Second topic – Book Review
Third topic – Favorite Things (or My Favorite Thing)
Fourth topic, which is optional and ongoing… Free Write! That’s “write”! Anything on your mind, when you have some free time to be creative on your blog, important things to you, or just anything random-ville. (Hmmm, an idea. Maybe a post could be Random Thoughts. I may use that!)
(The links below will be active soon to some Sixth Grade posts. Stay tuned!)
Let’s get back to the topic though – Making Categories.
Here’s the easy HOW TO
Once you’re working on a post and you’re ready to save DRAFT, look over to the righthand column and scroll down until you see Categories. Click on:
Making categories will help lots after you have a bunch of posts but only want to look at certain ones. Just clicking on the category name on your home blog page will bring up all of those posts together.
Hey all readers!
6A class have 2 or 3 posts now for reading and commenting.
Past, Present, Future
Book Review
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
When you leave a comment, please make it a Quality Comment. It’s much more meaningful for the blogger to read something worthwhile rather than … “Good job!” “Awesome!” “That’s great!” Check out the Quality Comments page for guidance. : )
Enjoy and … Happy Blogging!
Happy New Year, everyone! What a great way it is to start the year with BLOGGING!
The 6A and 6B classes will get their blogs set up and will start rolling out their thoughts on their blog page.
Blogging is a creative way to get information, ideas, reflection, comments, questions, and answers published to share with others. Our blogs will make up a great digital portfolio for the second semester this school year, too.
See you soon in the blog pages! We welcome your comments any time!
Mrs. Peterson
Below you’ll find the students who have responded to the Lutheran School Postcards/Letters we have received. Connecting with others is always a treasure! We invite you to read and comment back.
JAYDEN St. Peter Immanuel, Decatur, IN
COLTON St. Paul, Thorndale, TX
MATTHEW Trinity Lutheran, Kalispell, MT
CYAN Grace Christian, Escondido, CA
AAYOG Zion, St. Charles, MO and Trinity Lutheran, Kalispell, MT
NATHAN St. Peter Immanuel, Decatur, IN
ELI Zion, St. Charles, MO
ASHTON Grace Christian, Escondido, CA
MEAGAN Grace Christian, Escondido, CA
BRETT Zion, St. Charles, MO and Trinity Lutheran, Atchison, KS
MICAH St. Peter, Schaumberg, IL
Dear Friends in Christ,
It is a joy to connect with you through snail mail – postcards and letters. (Thanks to Mr. Kroll in Wisconsin for organizing everything!) When I share your mail, my students are amazed to find similarities and learn about differences where you live. It always brings about great discussion and leads to more discovery!
My sixth graders have written responses to your mail in their blog posts. I would love to continue to connect with you through the year! We also use Seesaw and could connect Seesaw blogs with you as another option.
God’s peace,
Mrs. Peterson