4/5 Flocab Shout-Out Contest!

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6th graders, want to enter this week’s Flocab Shout-Out contest? We will enter our school for each entry that is created. Entries for this week’s post are due no later than 8am on Thursday, April 11. You can share your entry in a few ways:

  1. Email your response to the prompt to your social studies teacher directly.
  2. Create a blog post sharing your response to the prompt! Add a link your post as a comment on this blog post. (Please ask your LA teacher to publish your response by 8am on the due date.)
  3. Leave a quality comment directly on this post with your response to the prompt.

4/5/19 PROMPT: Tell us about your favorite dinosaur.

3/29 Flocab Shout-Out Contest!

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6th graders, want to enter this week’s Flocab Shout-Out contest? We will enter our school for each entry that is created. Entries for this week’s post are due no later than 8am on Thursday, April 8. You can share your entry in a few ways:

  1. Email your response to the prompt to your social studies teacher directly.
  2. Create a blog post sharing your response to the prompt! Add a link your post as a comment on this blog post. (Please ask your LA teacher to publish your response by 8am on the due date.)
  3. Leave a quality comment directly on this post with your response to the prompt.

3/29/19 PROMPT: If you could create a new law, what would it be? Be sure to explain your choice! 

Our School’s NCAA Bracket Challenge

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One popular sporting event in our neck of the woods is the NCAA basketball tournament known as March Madness. This is a tournament where 64 teams meet head to head! Our middle school is having a friendly challenge to see which student or teacher can correctly predict the most winners of these games.

Students can check out the up to date stats of the tournament by visiting our Student Council Blog post about the NCAA Bracket Challenge. (Unfortunately, only students from our school will have access to this particular Google Sheet because of privacy settings.)

Does your school have any fun traditions? Is there a tradition or fun contest you wish they would offer? We’d love to hear about it in the comments below!

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Week 6/7/8 Prompt!

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This week (Nov. 26th) you can create a post on whichever topic interests you from SBC Week 6, 7, or 8. Week 7 was free choice – so the sky really is the limit (or is it really?)! I can’t wait to read what you create!

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SBC Week 2

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WEEK 2: Comments & Connections

Written expression is just one way that we can share our thoughts, feelings, and creativity with others. The Student Blogging Challenge allows us to share our work not only with our class but with our peers around the world!
Week 2 of the SBC encourages us to make connections with the other participants of the challenge by using the comment section.

Task 1: Quality Comment Expectations Video or Poster

This week our first task we will:

  1. create a video or poster to add to our blogs about how visitors should leave quality comments on your blog
  2. turn in your video or poster to #013
  3. (once approved) add your video or poster as both a post & page about how you’d like visitors to leave quality comments on your blog
  4. Optional: Submit your task using this Week 2 Google Form.

Be sure to give credit to the Student Blogging Challenge and Mrs. Yollis’ class for where we learned how to write quality comments.

Task 2: Leaving Quality Comments

Visit and leave quality comments on at least 4 blogs this week from SBC Challenge!

Looking for a blog to comment on? Use these links to help:

  1. Check out the SBC 2018 Student Participant list to find students with similar interests.
  2. Check out the Week 1 Tasks Google Sheet. All these students have started the challenge.
  3. Check out the SBC 2018 Class Blog List. These are classes who are participating in the challenge. Some students will have their own blogs, some won’t.
  4. Mrs. Yollis has visited and commented on our class blog, maybe visit the blog of her third graders.
  5. The classes of Mrs. Calhoun and Ms. Warnick have also visited our class blog. Check out their class and student blogs.

Task 3: Sharing Interesting Blogs

In the comment section of this post, give a SHOUT OUT to one or two students whose blogs you visited and left comments on. Sharing these blogs will encourage your classmates to build connections with these students/classes as well.

Your comment on THIS POST should:

  • follow quality comment guidelines
  • include a shout out to the specific student’s blog you visited
  • include one reason why your classmates should visit this blog
  • The URL to the blog, post, or page you commented on

OPTIONAL TASK

Check out the rest of the SBC Week 2 post for other cool ideas for tasks to complete this week.

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Celebrating Week 1 of SBC!

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Week One of the Student Blogging Challenge encouraged us to let the world get to know us using our “About Me” pages. We learned about the importance of safety online and create avatars to use as virtual representations of ourselves on our blogs.

Some of us shared the interesting websites we used to create our avatars and some of us created additional avatars to help you get to know us better! Here are just some of the posts we created last week:

Wyatt’s About Me page was featured in the FlipGrid magazine this week! Check it out and while you’re there check out the other great posts/pages highlighted in the online magazine.

Leah and Chloe created Avatars for their families. Check them out!

Asha and Lexie’s About Me Pages of random facts really helps you get to know them.

The alphabet was used by PJ to let you know his likes and dislikes!

Poetry was the method of choice used by Dana and Siddharth to introduce themselves to the world.

More highlights to come…

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Get to Know Our New Bloggers – 2018-2019

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Who makes up Ms. Mack’s 18-19 6th Grade Language Arts class? What makes us unique?

Check out some fun facts about our class below! (Click the red text to visit each student’s blog to find out more about them.)

We’d love to get to know more about you as well!  Leave us a comment with something that makes you unique. Be sure include a link to your blog so we can come to visit!

Who plays setter in volleyball?

Who plays the drums?

Who loves animals?

Who speaks a foreign language?

Who is obsessed with pandas?

Who has a sister?

Who loves ice cream?

Who likes to dance?

Who plays baseball?

Who likes to play the piano?

Fornite is a favorite of this student. And this one too!

Who loves theater?

Whose favorite sport is Lacrosse?

Who LOVES cows?

Which class member thinks Fortnite is dead?

Who plays field hockey?

Who is the youngest of three?

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