Welcome Blogging Challenge Participants!
WE ARE:
We are 28 sixth graders and 1 teacher.
We are pet lovers.
We are daughters, sons, siblings, step-children, grandchildren, cousins.
We are proud of our Northside community.
We are Midwesterners.
We are readers and writers.
We are iPad users.
We are investigators.
We are curious about people and places in the world.
We are diverse.
We are lovers of read alouds.
We are bedazzled belts.
We are sports players and enthusiasts.
We are players of instruments.
We are artists.
We are technologically savvy.
We are fans of a basketball border showdown.
We are music and movie lovers.
We are prepared for middle school, standardized tests, and today’s world of networking.
We are jeans and hoodies.
We are cell phone users.
We are mathematicians and scientists.
We are friends.
We are talkative.
We are of multiple intelligences.
We are in our last year of elementary school.
We are becoming bloggers!
Some questions we have for fellow bloggers include:
What grade levels attend your school?
What do you do for homework?
How do you use technology in your classroom?
How do you help serve your community?
Thank you for visiting!! We look forward to a challenge. 
March 6th, 2012 at 4:15 am
Wow, I love your poem!! It’s awesome!!!
March 6th, 2012 at 4:48 am
I really love your poem! You have described a lively, inquisitive, fun-loving, thoughtful group that it would be fun to be a part of. It will be fun to get to know you through these blogging connections. I am the teacher for 6th graders at a pre-school through 8 school, but 6th grade is the first year of middle school for us. This is our first year of each student having their own laptop to use all day at school and we do quite of variety of different things with technology in our class. We use edmodo a lot this year and other things like animoto, prezi, imovie, and now our blogs of course. Check out of class blog and some of our individual blogs to see some examples!
Keep up the great work!
March 6th, 2012 at 9:09 am
Hi,
Your poem is fantastic my school have also done a poem on our blog (penbank6.edublogs.org).
To answer the questions at the end our school goes up to grade six so I’m in my last year of primary school. (elementary school)
My school doesn’t do much homework but we have literature circle groups about the book we are reading -City of Ember. We also have a computer wensite called Spelling city where we learn the words for our spelling tests.
We use technology in classroom by each student from grade 4 to 6 having a laptop each.
Please check out my schools blog.
Thanks
Ruby
March 6th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
We attend a middle school that has grades 6 through 8.
Our wonderful CA teacher has us read every night! It really isn’t homework since we just love to do it! In Social Studies, we have soo much homework. There are some nights that it takes 2 hours to complete…I mean, really, we have an outside of school life…..hello!! We get homework from him every night! It is a small joy on those nights when we don’t have homework! For Science, we barely have homework! We do love the experiments that we do in class! Science rocks! (get it, rocks!)
For Math/Challenge Math, we get more homework then in Science.
Our Math class has a smart board….we don’t get to use it, but the teacher does. In Science, we use the palms….they are an “old” form of technology. We use them for drawing pictures and taking pictures. There is really no technology in CA….we have to go to a computer lab.
There are a few things that we do to help the community…we collect cans of food for people, we have done a penny war to raise money, and have planted flowers for a beautifcation project.
Good luck with the challenge!!
March 6th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Hello Missouri!
Thanks for visiting our blog yesterday. We are also in the blogging challenge and my students visited several of your blogs today. We are also a 6th grade class located in southern Monterey County in California. We are a middle school and have approximately 700 students in grades 6-8 on our campus. We live in a kind of small town with 10,000 people.
My students see four teachers each day. They see me for ancient history and language arts. They see the teacher next door for math and science. For homework, we “flip” teach, meaning students prepare for a lesson at home the night before. Then, in class, we discuss the information and practice what we’ve learned. We us a lot of video for this that students watch at home.
Each student has a netbook that they can use while at school and we use Google Apps for a lot of our work. We also love to Skype and collaborate with other schools, so hopefully we can connect sometime soon:-)
March 7th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
I love that poem and it is cool how we have iPads!
March 8th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Mrs Beaulieu and students,
I found this post after visiting Mrs Kelly’s blog. Remember to leave a link in your post that will take your readers back to the student blogging challenge post that tells about this activity. Otherwise I would not have known that you had finished this fantastic poem.
March 12th, 2012 at 3:04 am
How creative. Your poems really tells us a lot about you. Enjoyed ready it.
March 12th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Hi, My name is Paloma from Mr.Miller’s class, and I would like to answer 2 of your questions.
*What grade levels attend your school?: In our school we have 6th grades to 8th grade.
*What do you do for homework?: For homework we only do math and some of the classwork that we didn’t finish.
March 12th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Hello, my name is Dharyl. I am from Mr. Miller’s Class Blog. Well in my school our grades allow 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. I am in the 6th grade. For homework we read and review for up coming tests. We use NetBooks as our technology and we use it basically for everything. I have donated and help give out food to those who did not have enough food to feed their family.
March 12th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
You guys are lucky to have Ipads. I wish I had an Ipad but I have an Ipod. Do all of you have pets in your home? What’s your favorite basketball player? Do you think blogging is easy or hard? I really Like this poem!
- Stephanie
June 2nd, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Walking in the prseecne of giants here. Cool thinking all around!
March 12th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
This is a very creative blog post.I really liked it.I’m not really sure if it is a poem or you guys just telling us what you are.Well anyways nice job on it.
March 12th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Hello! I’m Ana Maria from Mr. Miller’s class. I have been blogging for about a year and it is pretty fun. I like your post and I love your blog. I know that you guys are using iPads, but we are using Netbooks. I love iPads, but personally I think Netbooks are better. Just saying! So now to the questions. We are in a middle school and our grades here are 6th 7th and 8th. We usually don’t get a lot of homework in Mr. Millers room, but our other teachers give us homework. We usually have one page per night. Our technology is usually on the Netbooks. I don’t help my community, but I help other communities. I am a volunteer for the Salvation Army and I do bell ringing with my grandpa for donations every Christmas. Thank you and hope you visit my blog! Bye.
March 12th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Hi my name is Clay and I am in Mr.Miller’s 6th grade class. At our school we have 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Our class has net books not ipads net books are like little laptops. We do mos of our home work on line. I really like your blog good job.
March 12th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Hi its me Cassidy with a C. I’m from Mr. Millers class. At our school we have 6th 7th and 8th grade. For our homework in E.L.A we have to read a lot. In Math we are just doing review for a big test coming up. We don’t have any ipads but we have something called a Netbooks. We use them for almost everything like, visiting everyone’s blogs and doing blog posts. I help out our community and other peoples community because I am in a club called 4-H. We do a lot of different things like ringing the bell at our local grocery store, we do blanket drives and we also do coat drives. Well that is how I help out my community. Byee!!!
March 12th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Hi, my name is Anahi. I was looking threw your class blog and your poem caught my eye. It is very creative I also like playing instruments and my class is also very talkative. If you have time please visit my blog http://pirate38.edublogs.org/.
March 12th, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Hi my name is Alejandro and i’m in Mr. Miller’s 6th grade class. We are also in the Blogging Challenge. I really liked your poem. We also did a poem but we did are own individual poem. At first I wasn’t sure if this post was a poem or questions because at the bottom there’s questions. I hope you get a chance to visit my blog. Seeya!
March 12th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Hello, my name is Gisela and I really like your blog post. I’m from Mr. Miller’s room and I am a 6th grader. For homework we sometimes have to finish our blog post if we don’t finish them in class. In our class we have netbooks and they are cool! I also like your class blog. It looks great!