A Final Goodbye
Want to see a good example of a third grade teacher’s classroom blog?
Julie McCullers is a third grade teacher at J.H. House Elementary School. She participated in the third grade weblog workshop that Hillary Meeler and I conducted a couple of weeks ago. I just read a recent post of hers. It is a great example of how you can use a class weblog to “bump up the thinking” by students in classrooms. Her post, “A Final Goodbye” leads her class to think about a memorial service they will be having today to say a final goodbye to OVERUSED WORDS!
The words that will no longer be used in our writing are: go, went, say, said, like, liked, is, was, stuff, some, eat, ate, thing, big, bad, tall, nice, a lot, happy, fat, pretty, very, good, and sad.
I love this post! Not only has she modeled a great writing example for students to see, she has created a post that the students will really have to think about when they make comments. They are having to read between the lines to understand the post and then they have been challenged to really think about those particular overused words.She doesn’t have a post that leads only to a yes or no response. Her students get to stretch their thinking and see how you can have fun with language on weblogs. Writing matters!
Julie has all the makings of a teacher who sees the possibilities of weblogs. You go, Julie! Go welcome her to the community!
November 15th, 2004 at 9:55 am
I am so impressed with Julie’s weblog. I know she will do a great job with it this year. She is wonderful. When the State Superintendent visited our school, she said “What a Teacher!” as they left her classroom. JH House is lucky to have her!