Our+Classroom+Blog

Hello Students and Parents!

Welcome to our classroom BLOG! To view our classroom blog, click on the link below. We will use our class blog as a tool for communicating what we are learning in class, and to encourage writing about what we love! Please visit the class blog regularly to stay current on what we are doing in class, and what you student is writing about. You can always subscribe to our blog by using [|Google Reader]. If you’d like to learn more about Google Reader [|watch this short introduction video]

Safety is an important issue with communicating on the internet. Miss Wheaton and Mrs. DeBlock will personally moderate each student blog. Each post will be reviewed before it is published. If you’d like to learn more about how blogs work I suggest [|this excellent video clip] introducing the concept.

As always, we want parents to be involved! You are invited to comment on your student’s blog throughout the year. This is a great way to encourage your student and stay up to date with what they are learning in the classroom. All comments will be moderated before they are published. Thank you for taking the time to visit our blogs. If you have any questions please feel free to email either teacher at rgordon@queensburyschool.org or awheaton@queensburyschool.org

**Our students are learning about what it means to blog, rules of blogging, commenting etiquette,** **and overall how to's!** [|http://kidblog.org/DeBlockWheaton/] In the mean time... check out these other intermediate classes who are blogging!!!

Mr. Ferrell's Class 6th Grade Class fro Kansas - http://kidblog.org/ferrell/

Mrs. Ripps's 4th and 5th Grade Classes from Wisconsin - http://kidblog.org/MrsRippsClass/

Mrs. Sandler's 5th Grade Class from Argentina! - http://kidblog.org/ourgoodnews/

Ms. Levesque's 5th Grade Class from Canada - http://nmesgrade5.wordpress.com/

Mrs. Collazo's 5th Grade Class from North Carolina http://kidblog.org/CollazoCove

**__ Need Help Reading a Blog Post? __** I would like to see you using VozMe.com to help you listen to the posts. Copy the words from the post by highlighting the words, then right click on the words and select copy. Paste the words onto the box on VozMe.com and then click the listen button.

**__ How to Compose a Quality Comment __** See Mrs. Yollis' classroom blog and their videos on how you can compose a quality comment and how you can keep the conversation going!