During the last week of February and beginning of March, I was assigned to Ferry Lane Primary School Year 6 class blog; I was assigned to the first blog, which was a beautiful poem about Joy. Atifa penned a poem that created a nice visualization of the characteristics associated with spring and joy. For being a year 6 student, Atifa has captured a magical time of the year and expresses her feelings beautifully with words, which is not always an easy task at any age. She really does an exceptional job at personifying Joy, giving it the animate characteristics of an actual object or person. The best part of the poem was how Atifa ended the poem with a question. The question compels the reader to focus on things that make him/her feel joyous and visualize some favorite things to evoke truly pleasurable feelings.
March 5-March 9, 20012
This week was Spring Break and we were not assigned a C4K.
March 19-March 25, 2012
For this C4K, I was assigned to Ms. Stone’s class at Bradford School. The post I commented on was the “100 Word Challenge-Week 25.” Ms. Stone and Ms. Skinner decided to challenge the students to work on their conversational writing. The prompt the teachers assigned was, “How can I help you?” Even though this prompt is extremely vague, I thought this was a very creative way to motivate students to incorporate “how can I help you” into their conversational writing and use a limited amount of words to get their points across to the reader. The concept of this blog emphasizes succinct and thoughtful writing for students. More importantly, this was a good project for me to actually observe how educators are implementing blogs into the classroom in a meaningful and thought-provoking way for students, without neglecting content standards. Additionally, this is an excellent example of how to properly manage all of the students’ blogs and comments so that the teacher is not overwhelmed by the posts but able to effectively interact with students in a way that the students find engaging.
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