This comments for kids assignment was special in that we would be commenting on Mr. McClung's blog Mr. McClung's World. Mr. McClung is an 8th grade teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas and this is his third year teaching. I was assigned to read a post entitled Club Day in Mr. McClung's Lessons Learned section. In this post he told about something his school holds once a month called club day. Students pick a club at the beginning of the year. Mr. McClung is in charge of a Wii Sports club. One of his main reasons for liking club day is that it gives teachers a chance to build stronger relationships with their students. Having strong relationships with your students is so important and can really help grow learning potential in the classroom.
C4K # 8
My student for this week was Sira in grade six. Sira only had one post on her blog at the time and it was a welcome post just stating that she was new to blogging. You can visit Sira's blog here. I have visited Sira's blog since then and she has added on more post about things she likes to do on school holidays. I just asked Sira a few questions about school and encouraged her to keep blogging. I haven't got a response yet, but hopefully I'll get one soon!
C4K # 9
For this assignment we were asked to comment on Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog. Mrs. Yollis is a third grade teacher who is active in technology integration in the schools and she firmly believes in having a class blog and teaching her student how to creat quality comments. The blog post we were assigned to read was Quality Commenting During Family Blogging Month. In this post Mrs. Yollis posted examples of quality comments that had been left on the class blog, as well as individual students' blogs. April is Family Blogging Month and this post was to encourage more comments!
C4K # 10
For this comment I was assigned to one of Mrs. Yollis' third grade students Grace. Grace, along with two other students in her class, wrote EDM 310 a thank you note for all the comments we left their class. You can see their thank you note here. In the note they explained: why they have a classroom blog, how they earned their own blog, and why we should all get class blogs when we begin teaching. The specific post on her blog that I read was My New Mascot. In this post Grace introduced her 9-year-old stuffed animal bunny. She told a little bit about bunny's abilities like dancing and playing the piano. It was a cute and very creative post; she even included pictures of bunny doing her favorite things!
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