Student News: April 14, 2006
written by the Scholars of Room
208For the past two weeks,
we moved furniture around. People who wanted to help stayed in for recess and
ate lunch with Mr. S in our classroom. In Math, we made a blueprint of our
classroom. The fourths have been moving stuff around on the blueprint. This
helps our learning because [the classroom] is comforting and safe. That was
"Extreme Classroom
Makeover"!
Also
this week, we saw a play about Secret
Touching. A secret touch is when somebody
touches you in a way that you don't like. The play was about what you should do
when you or someone else has been secret touched. You should tell a trusted
adult.A couple of weeks ago we started
preparing for conferences. Mr. S gave us a pack of paper that had all the
different subjects we do in school. In it, we wrote what we were most proud of
and what we needed to work on. On each page there were
webs.
We use
webs
to know what we are most proud of and what we needed to work on. You write the
subject in the middle and on the shapes on the outside you write what you did in
that subject. The subjects are: Math, Reading, Writing, Theme, and Community.
The front has the 2nd Trimester
which is what you're proud of the most and
what you need to work on the most. Most of our conferences are on the 13th and
14th of April. That's how we prepare for conferences.
This week, Scott Kinney came to our class with a friend
named Dawn . Dawn is Scott Kinney's Regional
Coordinator for New England. Scott Kinney works with teachers all around the
world [at Discovery Education Network. He's has been doing
this for about a year now. His favorite place is Wells, ME. A friend got him
into podcasting. Another question we asked him is "If he could change one thing
about his job [what would it be?] "Less meetings." He came to our class just to
meet us. Scott and Dawn came to see how we podcast. He lives in Pennsylvania,
close to Hershy Land. We really enjoyed Scott Kinny and Dawn [Strunk] coming to
our classroom. On the last week of
March, the 4th graders went to USM (aka
University of Southern
Maine) to present about podcasting to the
KIDS
Consortium. The 3rds made a movie to tell how to make a podcast. If
you would like to hear the USM Presentation, click here. If you want to see the movie, click here .
Posted: Mon - April 17, 2006 at 01:45 PM
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