Ruminations from Room 27
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Fortunately for me, my phones and computers change time all by themselves–otherwise, I probably would have been off by an hour all day.
Ever wonder why we have those two weird times a year when we “spring forward” and “fall back” an hour? Here is the scoop on Daylight Saving Time. Read the article, then come back and tell me how you felt about the time change this weekend.
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It was pointed out to me on our Shelfari page that the LA Times Festival of Books is speedily drawing near. Many students are already excited about going. Have a look around the website and see which authors are going to be there on which days, and we can talk about arranging rides when I get back after Spring Break.
Also, we have a book shop over in the left sidebar under “Web Resources” that can give you some ideas for great reads! Have a look–anything you buy there will help our class receive credits with Amazon.com!
So, tell me:
Happy Thursday! It’s time for my weekly check-in to see what’s going on in room 27. As for me, my week has been mostly like this
In the meantime, though, here are your Blogging Challenges for Week One:
When last I checked the registered students list, these were the people from our class that I saw there: Arnold, Kobe, Michael, William, Janis, Daphnie, Esmeralda, and Tyler. You should follow the directions on the challenge page where it says “Students:“.
If you thought you had signed up to be an individual student blogger and your name isn’t above, check the registered students list, and if your name is not there, register again here. Then go ahead and do the student suggestions on your own blog. (They give you lots of choices–you don’t have to do them all!)
Everyone else will be responding in a comment to this post here on our class blog. The topic this week is “Who Are We?” Follow the steps below:
1. Why should other students / classes visit our blog? What will they learn from reading our posts? Are there any skills our class has that we could pass on to other classes and students? Perhaps highlight and link to some great posts our class has already written that newer blogging classes would find useful or interesting.
2. What should our Class “About” page have on it? Check out these below. Each page is so different. What do you think should be included in a class ‘About’ page?
Check out at least ten other class blogs from the list. Write a comment sharing some similarities and differences you found while reading their ‘About’ pages. Remember to include links back to those class blogs (or at least copy / paste their http://).
3. Write a comment introducing the world to our classroom or school.
4. Visit our buddy classes!
Our buddy classes are:
Catherine Barnard from Canada
and
Erika Fosgreen from the U.S.
Go visit their blogs, introduce yourself in a comment and get a conversation started!
5. Visit other blogs from the class list. Visit a different class blog and check it out. What did you like about it? What caught your eye? Did you find an interesting post? Be sure to include a link (or the http://) of the blogs you mention.
I can’t wait to see all your comments on here! Is there anything else you’d like to tell me about your week?
But really, I can’t wait until I’m feeling like this again
so I can be back there with you guys.
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Write me back by leaving a comment under this post:
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So, we are one movie away from the end of Harry Potter. It has been interesting to me to see how the books were interpreted for the big screen, and how my idea of what it would look like matched up or did not match up with the directors’ visions.
I loved the first three books, but the movies did not seem to fit the feelings I had about them. The fourth book was my favorite, that is until book #6 came along, but those movies were actually the most disappointing to me. The books that I didn’t really like as much, #5 and #7 were actually the movies I liked the best, because they were able to cut a lot of the boring description parts and keep the plot moving.
But the best thing about the movies and books are the characters. I have enjoyed watching the characters and actors who play them grow throughout the years. My favorite characters are the Weasley twins, Fred and George. There’s something about twins that lead to mischief and humor….
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So, write-in to tell us your opinons about Harry Potter?
