I had a very quick look through your writing samples today. They look very good. Wendy told me that she really enjoyed listening to you sharing your writing today and that the writing was of a very high standard. Well done everyone.
Our next piece of writing will be a scientific report of an experiment. We will be learning how to use appropriate scientific language within an appropriate format.
Mary chatted to me about your song writing that you are doing in music class. I thought it would work well to write some poetry next week - to tie in with song writing! I will bring some poems and song lyrics to study on Monday.
Science
I found this video which is about the formation of a star - pretty much what we have been reading about in Lucy and Stephen Hawkins’ novel.
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May 8th, 2008 at 2:59 am
We love your class blog. My students don’t have their own blogs yet, but they are posting on the class one. They love the comments section. One question. How did you get that site counter to work? I can’t quite seem to find where to paste the code.
Mr. Macklin
Ottawa, Canada
May 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Hi Lesley
Yay! Someone in Canada left a comment!
May 8th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Yes we did!
And thanks for commenting on our site. My class is a grade 4 class. Most kids are 10. How old are your students? Do kids in New Zealand call teachers by their first names? We got our counter to work and our ClustrMap as well. It’s pretty blank right now though. We have done some podcasting type stuff using out class iMac. It’s easy with a Mac. Listen to our Earth Day public service announcements. But I hear that the Audacity software is easy to use. Another teacher in our school is experimenting with it.
Scott Macklin
Teacher Room 23
Ottawa Canada
May 8th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
We are yr 6. which we heard means grade 5. Our class really wants and imac.
You guys are sooo lucky!! By May 15 all the kids in our class will be 10 except one who is 11.
Yes we call teachers by their first names but once we had a releaver [substitute.] And we had to call her M.s lucy!
It was strange for us but normal for you.
Kate
Student Room 12
Auckland New Zealand