Today in class I discussed in detail a homework task for students to work on between now and Friday.
Students are to go to Mr. Denton’s student page on his blog and choose a student from the tab at the top. They then read the essay that student has recently written and leave a comment there for them with positive feedback. They copy the comment and paste it to their blog where they are starting a post called Mr. Denton’s class essays. Repeat the process for at least two other students joining the comments together and adding any other constructive feedback they came up with after reading a variety of 4th grade essays. This should be of help to them as they go about crafting their own essays. We will be working on this in class intensively between now and Chinese New Year.
Math Opportunity
On another note Mr Power has just told me about an opportunity for some extra brain exercise and fun for those students who are competitive and love math…
World Math Day is March 3. To celebrate World Math Day, the Mathletics team has set up a site for some friendly and free competition. Here is the description from their site:
Students play at home and at school against other students around the world in live games of mental arithmetic. Each game lasts for 60 seconds and students can play up to 500 games, earning points for each correct answer. The students who answer the most questions appear in the Hall of Fame. Students cannot select their level but will move up as they progress.
This site is set up for students from ages 5 – 18 and also for parents and teachers. Registering your class is easy. Just go to the World Math Day web site, click on the red register button, and follow the steps. Your students can start participating immediately.
For more information, visit the site:
Enjoy the rest of your week everyone and make sure to check out your child’s blog at least once a week, they are currently putting in a lot of time and thought for their migration unit. While you are at it, go to our 5th grade migration wiki that Mr. Power has been working on for weeks. Thanks Mr. Power.
Students…Don’t forget to wear Red this Friday…and if you can incorporate your house shirts at the same time that is all the better… Our class raised over 2000 rmb last week, I wonder if it is possible to beat that?
the barefoot librarian 
Mrs. Power, my computer won’t work when I click on one of the student’s essay.How can I do my essay? My other computer proberly would work, but my other computer can’t post any posts on my blog so yeah.
Emma^_^
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hi Mrs.Power about the time when do we have holiday is it next 11th or 10th because you wrote 11th and 11th is Saturday
just want to know because my mom can book the flights to Hong Kong for us.
Bobby
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