"The Bike" by Gary Soto

Now that you've read "The Bike," by Gary Soto, post a comment below and answer this question: What was the boy's devious plan? Did his plan work out in the end? This should include a topic sentence, an example sentence from the story, an explanation (1-2 sentences), and a closing sentence.

Swine Flu

Students will read this Washington Post article about the swine flu and will complete the document titled "Swine Flu New Article Questions," which has been uploaded on our class website.

Once they have finished the questions, the class will discuss the ramifications of this pandemic and post comment on the blog about thier responses to the videos here.

Live Blog: What is Middle School Really Like?

The 6th grade language arts classes at KMS (Bortner, Brunelli, Mendez, and Springer) hope to have a live blogging conversation (via Cover it Live) with some of the 5th grades in the district in a few weeks time about the "big transition" to middle school.

We envision having the 6th graders talk about what one needs to know, learn, and understand when coming to middle school and transitioning out of elementary school. We hope that fifth grade classes will want to participate, especially those from schools that feed into Kearney. Hopefully, this conversation will be like a question and answer session between students, with the teachers merely facilitating.

We can have students in small groups around individual computers or teachers can choose to have one computer going while students have the conversation with the teacher typing and paraphrasing. I still need to look at the next unit to see how this is going to tie in with the GLETs, but I don't foresee that being an issue.

If anyone has any pointers or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks,

Liz

Glogster

Glogster

Earth Week!

Students, it's Earth Week! Let's read some earth related news articles here When you've read some articles, go to our classroom website to download the lesson printout.

Live Blogging

Now that you have participated in the Live Blogging session through Cover it Live, tell me your thoughts. What did you learn? What did you like about the discussion? What can we do differently next time to make it easier to talk to other people outside our classroom? Please post a comment!