Opportunities Abound

The morning began as I had expected-a healthy dose of options to use in our classroom.  What's been most interesting is noticing how enthusiastically we have taken on these possibilities. I hope that our students are able to feel our interest and use that to fuel their digital writing.

Twitter seems to offer the most opportunity for 7th grade English and 8th science. Ideas keep jumping into my mind about the chances to engage with students in more authentic publication that will allow them to communicate in a community of writers- something I have been building over the past two years. Perhaps students can create digital writing pieces to capture a theme and blend that theme through several different modes much like the film from MAPS by Troy Hicks. Capturing their writing piece through a blog, they could then promote it through Twitter and other means of communication.

Along with this, I invision students working to back channel their learning to collaborate and study.  In this way, maybe we could explore the learning process and reflect back on how they learned? Using this platform, students would work together in preparation for upcoming exams.

As we break for lunch, I'm eager to get into the lesson planning time scheduled for this afternoon. 

#PWP2T

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Swim fishy fishy

The trout are looking amazing this week. Especially are little friends named Nemo and Dory. They are striving and swimming great.

-grace



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A belated blog update for the week of 2/24

It's been quite a few months since we were supposed to post this, and our memory of the trout is fuzzy. Vern and I (Leo) were assigned trout duty on the week of two inservice days. From what we remember, all was well and calm in the waters of the trout tank. Everything went swimmingly.

-Leo and Vern


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Fish

The fish are doing amazing in the tank, they are swimming and eating and none deAd they are living quite happily!
Here's a picture of a couple fish hanging out!
~Maddie and Javier



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TIC week 23

This week, we dove headfirst into the wonderful watery world of Trout In the Classroom. The fish are doing swimmingly, squirming and eating happily in their underwater fortress. Water quality is top notch and the chiller is keeping the fish nice and cool. It will be a sad day when we part with the trout later this month, but we know they have to move on to bigger and better streams.

-Jess P and Grace L


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All is Well in FishyLand

It was a normal week with no deaths of the fish. All chemical and temperature levels were normal.


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Week of 4/7

The trout are doing well. The water stayed consistent throughout the whole week. 0 fish died while we were taking care of them, which was good. We learned a lot while we watched them. It was a lot of fun, too.

By James R and Tyler J

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Location:Mr Davis' classroom