This post will provide students with the chance to do some measurement practice. Click on the picture below and you will be asked to guide the ant to the picnic by measuring the distance between the markers. Click on the word “Ruler” in order to use the online inch ruler. You may rotate the ruler by clicking on the icon at the end of the ruler which turns it. This game will help you when you get ready to measure perimeter on your TAKS test. Have fun!
Snow Day today and our schools are closed due to the bad road conditions. So what will you do today? Let me recommend that you go to Highlight’s Magazine link here and play a game of Hidden Picture “Snowy Feast”. When you finish, you might want to create your own online snowflake at Popular Front Snowdays. Enter your FIRST NAME ONLY – Remember Digital Safety always! On the line that asks, “Where are you from?” just enter “White Oak”. I will be looking throughout the day to see if I can find your snowflake. See if you can find mine, “Mrs. Cranford.”
We will be making up this weather day on Monday, February 21st. It will be very important that you be there. Enjoy your day!
The final challenge of the year is upon us, Challenge #10. This challenge asks us to audit our own blog by answering some questions. We will do just that right now.
We are already participants in The Blogger’s Cafe challenges, and our blog is listed in their blogroll as well. We look forward to participating in the next Blog Challenge and hope that we can involve other classrooms here on our campus.
The C-O Connections has been named on the list of “Top 100 Classroom Blogs” published by Online Degrees. “My goal,” according to Alexis Brett of Online Degrees, “was to make this list a sort of ‘resource guide’ for other teachers so they would be inspired to start their own classroom blogs as well.” She goes on to say, “I wish we would have done classroom blogging when I was in elementary school!”
Our students do love it and the connections it has helped them to make beyond our small school district. Thank you for this honor and we will do our best to continue to inspire others to blog.
We are at mid-year and have already had several school holidays. We were wondering, “What’s your favorite holiday?” Please help us our with our Blog Challenge 8 by completing this poll. We are interested in graphing the outcome on bar graphs, line graphs, tally mark charts, and pictographs. Thank you for your time.
The count down is on and in just a few short weeks the Blog Challenge will end. This week the challenge is to visit the suggested blogs and leave a combined total of three comments altogether. After visiting each of the blogs, we decided that we would comment on the following:
Having completed Challenge 8, we will also be completing our voting for 2010 Edublog Awards within the next week. We are sure that some of our favorite will finish on top.
The holidays have begun, and we are excited about the activities both at school and of course, at home. Christmas trees are up in the stores, and a few families have already put up their own trees. The only thing left to add are the gifts. With that thought in mind, we have found some Christmas How-to videos and slides at Kaboose showing you how to make some easy gifts for those special people on your list.
We would like to add to this list of crafts with your ideas. Please leave us a comment with instructions and/or links to some of your favorite holiday crafts. Then watch for them to be added here to our post. We will, of course, leave a link to you or your blog, giving you the credit to the idea.
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This period of the 2010 Challenge Yourself to Blog is coming to a close and it is time to nominate for the 2010 Edublog Awards. We have visited so many outstanding blogs during this season that it is difficult to choose just one from each category. We are also hoping that someone will choose to nominate the C-O Connections, of course!
My students, while a small class, have “special” gifts and with each post they have attempted, they have shown me that blogging is definitely worth the time and effort it takes on the part of the teachers. These students who sometimes struggle to get their thoughts on paper, thrive in this Web 2.0 environment. Thank you to Sue Waters and Miss Wyatt for providing opportunities where my students can feel successful. We will look forward to participating again next year.
Best resource sharing blog – Larry Ferlazzo – We go to this blog often to search for resources. You should too!
Best new blog – Tiara O’Malley – She just started with her new 3rd grade class of new bloggers less than 3 months ago and already has created a class of student blogs as well, Jot Your Thoughts. She is committed to integrating technology into her classroom.
Best educational use of video/visual – Mrs. Yollis – Truly a testimony to the rest of us of how blogging can be used to promote learning. LOVE her blogroll!
Best educational use of a social network – Richard Bryne – His Free Technology for Teachers is a valued presence on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Google Friend Connect.
Best teacher blog – Brent Coley – While I do not know if this qualifies as a “blog”, his class site has given great inspiration and guidance to our class, particularly in the area of podcasting.
Best Educational Wiki – Voicethread 4 Education – This site really helped connect us to others attempting to use Voicethread
Best Educational Tech Support Blog – Nina Peery, Keystrokes – This blog provides easy-to-find resources, ideas, safe search engines, etc. for students, teachers, and even PARENTS!
Best Group blog – Challenge Yourself to Blog – It’s the reason we are all here…Enough said. Thank you for tearing down the walls.
Best Individual Blog – Ms. Tiatiana – She has worked hard to collect educational links in all core areas and is certainly successful in this endeavor and worthy of recognition for that service to educators.
Best Student Blog – Stephanie Hunter – Chicken Scratch – This teacher “found” a way to allow her third graders to write even though their “posts” are actually page edits. The teacher maintains the home page of the Student blog and students post on their individual pages. Created in August 2010, this blog has already showcased, as Mrs. Hunter states, “glimpses into the inner-workings of their fascinating and creative young minds!”
Best Class blog – Jan Smith, Huzzah! – If you are looking for something to inspire, this is it!
Good Luck to all nominees and remember that you are all winners, especially the students you have awakened.