1.) Blog December poems. Today, you will go visit this teacher's website. You need to pick 3 different styles of poems. Write them first in your writing notebook, and then blog each one! They can be about the holidays or the month. However, the entire poem has to be about the same topic. So, write something amazing! I will be sharing your poems with other teachers!!
2.) Narrative Writing! I know you have so many stories about what is going on in your life in your writing notebook. These small stories are slices of your life. Now is your time to share a small slice of your life with your readers!
3.) Blog about your reading this week! What are you reading? What did you love? What did you not love?
4.) Finally, a free blog! Write about anything you would like to share!
Blog #1 October is one of my favorites! What is your favorite month? Describe your favorite! Do you want to share your thoughts in a poem? Is a descriptive paragraph the best ways to share your ideas? It is up to you! Just share what you love about your favorite month! Remember to use amazing, fantastic, colorful, thoughtful, dynamic, specific, creative words to paint a beautiful picture in your reader's mind! Title of this post: My Favorite Month
Blog#2
We are almost finished with Tiger Rising! For your second blog, describe your favorite character. Be sure to use specific reasons for why they are your favorite. Can you connect the character to your life in some way?
1.) Writers, you have started writing about small moments that are important to you.
Pick one of the small moments from your writing notebook.
Start a new post and publish your small moment on your blog
Title the Blog: Small Moments
2. Get a pair of headphones from the purple bins in the maker space. Watch this video about an idea:
Describe a time when you used something ordinary to make something extraordinary.
Some ideas to think about:
Describe a time you imagined yourself inside a story.
Did a crayon create something brilliant?
Did some trash become an amazing creation?
How did your imagination help you see the extraordinary?
Title of the blog should be: Imagination Part 3
3. The third post that you will publish is a summary of what you have read during this week. You need to tell the title, the author, and a little about the book. After you have typed, you can look for a picture of the cover.
Blog #1 - Moving to a new Texas Region Watch this to review the regions:
Pretend you are moving to a city in another region of Texas. Write a post for your blog explaining how your chosen city compares to Denton. Discuss the things you will miss, new things you will enjoy, as well as details about how the towns and regions are alike and different. You can add images such as sketches, photos or maps to your post if you would like.
Be sure to include information on 4 of the topics listed below:
landforms
climate
natural resources
goods and services
population
economics
recreation
vegetation
2. This week we have Celebrated our Freedom. Your second blog will be your journal writing that answers this question.
How does the Constitution continue to have an impact on Americans today? Before you answer that question, you should finish the videos on Discovery Education.
Title of the blog: Celebrate Freedom
3. Get a pair of headphones from the purple bins in the maker space. Watch this video about an imaginative girl:
In today's blog, I want you to answer one of the following questions about your imagination:
In what ways are you creative?
How do you express your own creative talents? (do you paint, cook, sew, draw,...)
How do you pay attention to small ideas that might someday become big?
Title of the blog should be: Imagination Part 2
4.) If you have time, you can do a fourth post that is a free post. It could be a list, a poem, a story, etc. Anything that you would love to share with your readers!
Title of the blog should be whatever you would like for it to be! Have fun with it!
You are doing an amazing job adding descriptive words to your personal stories! I hope you use some of those same strategies with your blogs!
Blog #1 - Moving to a new Texas Region Watch this to review the regions:
Pretend you are moving to a city in another region of Texas. Write a post for your blog explaining how your chosen city compares to Denton. Discuss the things you will miss, new things you will enjoy, as well as details about how the towns and regions are alike and different. You can add images such as sketches, photos or maps to your post if you would like.
Be sure to include information on 4 of the topics listed below:
You may write about anything you would like to share. You have done some free writing in your journal this week. So, if you would like to use one of those pieces, you may type it in as your Free Write Blog.
If I was going to move to a different region of Texas, I would move to the Coastal Plains. Mr. Nabors and I love to visit Galveston, and I would love to have a house there to go and stay for the summer. So, Galveston would be my chosen city.
Climate: The coastal plains climate is hot and muggy in the summer and mild in the winter. It gets about fifty inches of rain a year. It is the wettest of the regions. The coastal plains can be divided into five subregions: the Piney Woods, the Post Oak Belt, the Blackland Praire, the Gulf Coastal Plain, and the South Texas Plains.
Vegetation: Prairie land covers the majority of the Gulf Coastal Plains. There are also wildflowers, like the bluebonnet, our state flower. It is a perfect location for cattle because of the short grass plains. Landforms: There are a variety of landforms in The Gulf Coastal Plains region. This region is best known for the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf Coast and the islands in the gulf make up most of the Gulf Coastal Plains. Galveston is one of the islands that are in the Gulf of Mexico and part of the Gulf Coastal Plains. That is why I would love to live on this island.
Economics
In the Gulf Coastal Plains region, there are three main industries. These are oil, fishing, and ranching. The short grass of the prairie along the gulf coast makes it perfect for cattle grazing. The Gulf of Mexico is full of fish. This makes fishing a very common job and pastime. The Gulf Coastal Plains region is rich with oil, so people can also get a job drilling for it. Another major part of this region is tourism. People travel from all over the state and other states to vist this region and spend their money.
Wildlife: A variety of birds like the spoonbill, alligators, sea life like sea turtles, mice, armadillos, raccoons, and many other animals call the Gulf Coastal Plains. The lightning whelk is the official state shell and is only found on the Gulf Coast. A whelk is a large sea snail or gastropod, that has a heavy shell. An interesting fact is that Whelks are carnivores, or meat eaters because they eat clams, scallops, and oysters. The lightning whelk gets its name from the colored lines on its shell that look like “lightning lines.” Most spiral shells open to the right, but the lightning whelk is one of the few shells that open on the left. Lightning whelks were very important to the Native Americans that lived in that region. They made tools from the heavy shells. Changing Regions: I would move to the Gulf Coastal plains and live in Galveston if I was changing regions of Texas. Galveston is a wonderful place where I can have seafood, enjoy the beach, see a variety of wildlife, and experience a different part of Texas.
Welcome to my blog! This is where you will come to get information and directions about your blogging assignments. I absolutely LOVE blogging. I will share your blogs with parents, teachers, your family and the community. They will be amazed by your awesome writing!
1.) The first post that you will publish on your blog is your acrostic poem that we published and hung in the hallway. Once you have it all typed, you may change the colors and the font. Title of the Blog should be: Acrostic Poem
2.) The second post that you will publish is a summary of what you have read during the first two weeks of 4th grade. You need to tell the title, the author, and a little about the book. After you have typed, you can look for a picture of the cover. Title of the blog should be: My Reading Life
3.) If you have time, you can do a third post that is a free post. It could be a list, poem, story, etc. Anything that you would love to share with your readers! Title of the blog should be whatever you would like for it to be! Have fun with it! I am looking forward to a great year of writing and sharing!
Today is the first post of the 2018-2019 school year! I love the excitement that comes from creating our blogs! Students are typing their first post, and I am sharing how wonderful sharing our words can be.
Things we will blog about:
struggles
successes
fears
poetry
stories
books we love
things we collect
and many more things!
We hope you will join us and read along as we share our fourth-grade year!
Good Morning, This is our next to last day to spend blogging in our classroom. I have loved watching you become better bloggers!! 1st BlogThis morning, we are writing a top ten list about what you have loved or enjoyed about 4th grade. Top ten lists are a great way to organize your thinking. They help us communicate why things are important, and they are fun to create. Lists grab people's attention. Our readers love to read lists. They are flexible and are a wonderful way to share your opinions. 1.) Decide on your top 10 things you have loved or enjoyed about 4th grade. (on a piece of notebook paper) 2.) Put them in order of 1 being your most favorite thing and ten being the end of your list. 3.) Blog your list and describe why you added each thing to your list. 2nd Blog We spent a lot of time talking about Texas A&M University. However, I want to know where you want to go to college, and why you chose that school. Tell me all about the college you love!!! I can't wait to read your words!!! I am so sad to miss today with you, but I am excited to share my adventure of graduation. I will bring pictures to show you everything next week! Have a GREAT day! Happy Blogging!
Good Morning Bloggers, Today you are going to share some poetry. Your first post will be titled Bio Poem. You wrote a bio poem with Miss Traylor. So, you will type your poem as your first blog. Your second blog will be a free verse poem. It can be about anything you would like to write about. If you are not sure how to get started, click here.
Poets, you write AMAZING poetry! I can not wait to read your words! The poem below is by Joyce Sidman. She wrote a book called Dark Emperor and other Poems of the Night. I loved this one! Is this one free verse? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Have a fantastic day! I can not wait to read your poems!!!
1st Blog should be about your reading life! What are you reading? Tell me all about it!Are you enjoying it? Would you recommend it? 2nd Blog is a free blog! After you finish your blogs, you may explore this website: http://www.seussville.com/#/games
Writers, for today's blog, you are going to share your thoughts on why it is important to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life. You have become amazing authors, and I look forward to reading your essay!
