9/29/2015 September 29, 2015Our third graders have published their first blog posts and I know they would love to receive comments from family and friends. The posts are in the Who Am I? category on our third grade blog page. This activity was a follow up to our discussion of the story The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. Just like the character Vashti in the story, we want students to have the courage to try something new and be willing to work and build their skills over time. They just need a little encouragement and support along the way. I have shared more about the story in my post Making Our Mark. IMPORTANT: I am stressing the importance of not revealing too much personal information online, so students will never be identified in their posts by their last names. This means that commenters can enter their names in the comment name box as "mom" or "dad", or "Grandma" or "Aunt Joan" and still have the comment be approved for publication. (I approve everything before it goes live.) We don't want to compromise our students' privacy by having someone enter a first and last name and then sign "mom" or "dad". In the old version of Kidblog it was possible for me to edit the entered name but I can no longer do that. Coming up for our next class is our introduction to keyboarding. You will hear more about that in the next post, but you can check out the keyboarding link at the left of this post now. Comments are closed.
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