12 thoughts on “What’s Your Favorite Part Of School?”
Hi Brooklynn,
My name is Merry Beau and I am your student blogging challenge mentor. I will be popping in to visit your blog over the course of the challenge and seeing how you are getting on.
I teach children between the ages of 4 and 12 and I am from Ireland. I have two grown up children: one is a midwife and the other hopes to join the Irish army shortly. My hobbies are blogging and gardening. I would on our school website and three school blogs; my own class blog, a Green Schools blog and a history one. Here is a link to our class blog http://merrybeau.edublogs.org/category/student-favourite/
I also love walking our dog. She is a seven year old Japanese Akita and is a very loyal and protective member of our family.
My class and I have done the student blogging challenge in the past. I see from your badges that you did the student blogging challenge in 2016 also so you will know if you ‘keep with it’ you will learn a lot. As Ms.W says you can choose from the suggested activities to do what really interests you. That way blogging is such fun. Ms. W says by Easter or mid April we would like to see an ‘About Me’ page or post as well as two other posts in related to the challenges. I will be really interested in reading the ‘About Me’ part. Where would I find yours? It may well be there, but I cannot locate it. I found it very helpful that you put up the Student Blogging Challenge badge. That way when I visited your blog immediately I was sure you are taking part.
It would be lovely to hear back from you. Otherwise I feel like I am talking to myself. Part of the fun of blogging is getting to hear from people all over the world. As Miss W. says if you finish your tasks why not visit other student bloggers and leave a comment to say hello.
With every good wish
Merry Beau
Hey thank you so much for being my mentor. I will be posting the about me very soon. Keep visiting! My friend Connor and I are making a series called Luke Parker it’s really fun! Well Bye!
Wishing you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day for Friday 17th March. We here in Ireland have no school on that day and many of the children will be marching in the St.Patrick’s Day parade. Many of them will be marching with a sports club or youth group that they belong to.
Do you belong to any sports or hobby group? When I was your age I belonged to a swimming club and a choir. The children I teach belong to lots of clubs. They seem to do at least as many after school activities as there are working days in the week: activities like theatre group, yoga, rugby, basketball, science club and art. Some children are so busy they have more than one after school activity in a day.
Spring has arrived here in Ireland. We have had a very mild winter, but see on the TV news that Pennsylvania has had some snow recently. I hope it did not cause too much disruption. However, even though the weather is Spring like this week, the weather forecast for St.Patrick’s Day is for light rain and wind.
I appreciated your reply to my comment as this week the theme is ‘Learning How to Comment Well’. It is fun to get a conversation started.
Hi Merrybeau I have 2 after school activities. I play an instrument the clarinet. Also I do dance, I’m in a hip hop class. For St. Patrick’s day we don’t really do anything. All we do is wear Green. The snow made us miss 2 days of school. So we only had 3 days of school to work on the student blog challenge last week. Thank you for being my mentor and keep commenting!
Hello again,
Just popping in to see how things are going. I can see you are working hard on your challenge and I will pass on this good news to Miss Wyatt who organizes the Student Blogging Challenge.
We didn’t have any snow this winter at all.
One memorable year, about seven years ago, we missed ten days of school on account of snow.
With every good wish and keep up the good work.
Merry Beau
Thank you, do you even like the snow? I don’t I like Summer. When you do do you get a lot of snow. Please keep coming to visit and commenting. I like to see the comets when I get to school in the morning. BYE!
Hello again Brooklynn,
I hope all is good with you.
I like looking at snow, but I don’t like having to travel to work in the snow.
Ms.Wyatt has put up a really interesting set of challenges this week on family, culture and your home country. I really look forward to seeing which challenge or challenges you choose and what you write.
You can see what she is suggesting here: http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/04/09/week-5-culture-and-family/
You are all doing SO well in Mr.Geiman’s class on the Student Blogging Challenge, that I suggest that you aim to do your VERY best work and if you are REALLY proud of it, that you draw Ms.Wyatt’s attention to it by posting a link to it on this page. She may feature it on the Flipboard magazine or give your work a mention in a post later on in the challenge.
If I see any TRULY wonderful work on your blogs between now and the end of the challenge I plan to pass the link on to Ms.Wyatt also.
NOW. THIS IS IMPORTANT… If you are sending a link to the post you feel you have done really well DON’T sent her a link to your whole blog. For example this is a link to our class blog. http://merrybeau.edublogs.org/
Instead send Ms.Wyatt a link to the actual post. For example this is a link to a special post on our class blog that we wrote for the students in Mr. Geiman’s class http://merrybeau.edublogs.org/2017/04/09/a-special-post-for-mr-geimans-class-in-pennsylvania-usa/
This is because there are over two thousand students doing the student blogging challenge and if Ms.Wyatt is directed to a blog it would take time for her to find the actual post that you would like her to see.
With every good wish and wishing you a Happy Easter,
Merry Beau
I love the challenges that she came up with and also I wold love to be on the flip board magazine. Tons of my friends have been on there and sadly I haven’t. Can you tell me who your mentoring with like your my mentor. Who else do you mentor?
Hi Brooklynn, As well as your good self, I mentor.
Milani
Katie
Maggie
Leila
Courtney
Luke
Connor
Kathryn
Owen
Elise
Emily
Leila
Emilee
Emmanuel
Ashton
Lily
Kane
Shanealei
Summer
I believe they are all students in your school, even your class.
There is still plenty of time to do a post that ends up in the flip board magazine.
With every good wish
Merry Beau
Hello again, Thank you for asking about my Easter. I did some gardening and spent time with family. It was great too 🙂
Just to say I sent the following note to Ms.Wyatt,
‘Great news. I am having such a great time mentoring the hardworking bloggers that you assigned me from Mr. Geiman’s class.
There is every sign between badges, About Me pages, posts and the use of the hashtag #stubc17 that they are all on board with the Student Blogging Challenge.’
I have been a mentor for a number of years now and you are far and above the best group I have ever mentored. Congrations and well done to you and your teacher.
This week Ms. Wyatt says you should prepared for a game that will be coming up as part of the Student Challenge in a couple of weeks. In order to be prepared she you like you to have at least 5 other student blogs linked on the sidebar of your blog, in a page near your header area or in a recent post that your visitors can find easily. Make sure these are blogs from other students around the world, not just those in your class or school. Perhaps have a blogroll or link category called Global students or Global classes. You can read how to do that on this link: http://help.edublogs.org/blogroll/
Ms. Wyatt also says ‘Having read many of your posts, I came up with the following essentials in a great post.
• catchy title
• includes at least one visual (with attribution) whether photo, cartoon, video or another web 2.0 tool like padlet or glogster
• interesting topic with the passion of the author coming through
• well written and not copy/pasted from somewhere else
• shows it has been proofread and spellchecked
• written in paragraphs – at least three of them
• includes links to other websites on similar topics – at least two of these’
I would agree with Ms.Wyatt and in particular I would say that visuals are important. So is checking one’s spellings. Sometimes, I have seen lovely posters made that were very visual, but a spelling mistake on the poster took away from the overall effect.
She asks that you ‘mention what topic you wrote about and leave a link to your post’….not a link to your blog but to the post.
She says that if your posts covering the seven things mentioned above e.g. has a catchy title, includes at least one visual etc. etc., it will be added to the flipboard magazine.
Hi Brooklynn,
My name is Merry Beau and I am your student blogging challenge mentor. I will be popping in to visit your blog over the course of the challenge and seeing how you are getting on.
I teach children between the ages of 4 and 12 and I am from Ireland. I have two grown up children: one is a midwife and the other hopes to join the Irish army shortly. My hobbies are blogging and gardening. I would on our school website and three school blogs; my own class blog, a Green Schools blog and a history one. Here is a link to our class blog http://merrybeau.edublogs.org/category/student-favourite/
I also love walking our dog. She is a seven year old Japanese Akita and is a very loyal and protective member of our family.
My class and I have done the student blogging challenge in the past. I see from your badges that you did the student blogging challenge in 2016 also so you will know if you ‘keep with it’ you will learn a lot. As Ms.W says you can choose from the suggested activities to do what really interests you. That way blogging is such fun. Ms. W says by Easter or mid April we would like to see an ‘About Me’ page or post as well as two other posts in related to the challenges. I will be really interested in reading the ‘About Me’ part. Where would I find yours? It may well be there, but I cannot locate it. I found it very helpful that you put up the Student Blogging Challenge badge. That way when I visited your blog immediately I was sure you are taking part.
It would be lovely to hear back from you. Otherwise I feel like I am talking to myself. Part of the fun of blogging is getting to hear from people all over the world. As Miss W. says if you finish your tasks why not visit other student bloggers and leave a comment to say hello.
With every good wish
Merry Beau
Hey thank you so much for being my mentor. I will be posting the about me very soon. Keep visiting! My friend Connor and I are making a series called Luke Parker it’s really fun! Well Bye!
Hello Again from Ireland Brooklynn.
Thank you for your reply.
Wishing you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day for Friday 17th March. We here in Ireland have no school on that day and many of the children will be marching in the St.Patrick’s Day parade. Many of them will be marching with a sports club or youth group that they belong to.
Do you belong to any sports or hobby group? When I was your age I belonged to a swimming club and a choir. The children I teach belong to lots of clubs. They seem to do at least as many after school activities as there are working days in the week: activities like theatre group, yoga, rugby, basketball, science club and art. Some children are so busy they have more than one after school activity in a day.
Spring has arrived here in Ireland. We have had a very mild winter, but see on the TV news that Pennsylvania has had some snow recently. I hope it did not cause too much disruption. However, even though the weather is Spring like this week, the weather forecast for St.Patrick’s Day is for light rain and wind.
I appreciated your reply to my comment as this week the theme is ‘Learning How to Comment Well’. It is fun to get a conversation started.
So long for now, with every good wish, Merry Beau
Hi Merrybeau I have 2 after school activities. I play an instrument the clarinet. Also I do dance, I’m in a hip hop class. For St. Patrick’s day we don’t really do anything. All we do is wear Green. The snow made us miss 2 days of school. So we only had 3 days of school to work on the student blog challenge last week. Thank you for being my mentor and keep commenting!
Hello again,
Just popping in to see how things are going. I can see you are working hard on your challenge and I will pass on this good news to Miss Wyatt who organizes the Student Blogging Challenge.
We didn’t have any snow this winter at all.
One memorable year, about seven years ago, we missed ten days of school on account of snow.
With every good wish and keep up the good work.
Merry Beau
Thank you, do you even like the snow? I don’t I like Summer. When you do do you get a lot of snow. Please keep coming to visit and commenting. I like to see the comets when I get to school in the morning. BYE!
Hello again Brooklynn,
I hope all is good with you.
I like looking at snow, but I don’t like having to travel to work in the snow.
Ms.Wyatt has put up a really interesting set of challenges this week on family, culture and your home country. I really look forward to seeing which challenge or challenges you choose and what you write.
You can see what she is suggesting here:
http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/04/09/week-5-culture-and-family/
You are all doing SO well in Mr.Geiman’s class on the Student Blogging Challenge, that I suggest that you aim to do your VERY best work and if you are REALLY proud of it, that you draw Ms.Wyatt’s attention to it by posting a link to it on this page. She may feature it on the Flipboard magazine or give your work a mention in a post later on in the challenge.
If I see any TRULY wonderful work on your blogs between now and the end of the challenge I plan to pass the link on to Ms.Wyatt also.
NOW. THIS IS IMPORTANT… If you are sending a link to the post you feel you have done really well DON’T sent her a link to your whole blog. For example this is a link to our class blog. http://merrybeau.edublogs.org/
Instead send Ms.Wyatt a link to the actual post. For example this is a link to a special post on our class blog that we wrote for the students in Mr. Geiman’s class http://merrybeau.edublogs.org/2017/04/09/a-special-post-for-mr-geimans-class-in-pennsylvania-usa/
This is because there are over two thousand students doing the student blogging challenge and if Ms.Wyatt is directed to a blog it would take time for her to find the actual post that you would like her to see.
With every good wish and wishing you a Happy Easter,
Merry Beau
I love the challenges that she came up with and also I wold love to be on the flip board magazine. Tons of my friends have been on there and sadly I haven’t. Can you tell me who your mentoring with like your my mentor. Who else do you mentor?
Hi Brooklynn, As well as your good self, I mentor.
Milani
Katie
Maggie
Leila
Courtney
Luke
Connor
Kathryn
Owen
Elise
Emily
Leila
Emilee
Emmanuel
Ashton
Lily
Kane
Shanealei
Summer
I believe they are all students in your school, even your class.
There is still plenty of time to do a post that ends up in the flip board magazine.
With every good wish
Merry Beau
Thank you how was your Easter mine was great!
Hello again, Thank you for asking about my Easter. I did some gardening and spent time with family. It was great too 🙂
Just to say I sent the following note to Ms.Wyatt,
‘Great news. I am having such a great time mentoring the hardworking bloggers that you assigned me from Mr. Geiman’s class.
There is every sign between badges, About Me pages, posts and the use of the hashtag #stubc17 that they are all on board with the Student Blogging Challenge.’
I have been a mentor for a number of years now and you are far and above the best group I have ever mentored. Congrations and well done to you and your teacher.
This week Ms. Wyatt says you should prepared for a game that will be coming up as part of the Student Challenge in a couple of weeks. In order to be prepared she you like you to have at least 5 other student blogs linked on the sidebar of your blog, in a page near your header area or in a recent post that your visitors can find easily. Make sure these are blogs from other students around the world, not just those in your class or school. Perhaps have a blogroll or link category called Global students or Global classes. You can read how to do that on this link: http://help.edublogs.org/blogroll/
Ms. Wyatt also says ‘Having read many of your posts, I came up with the following essentials in a great post.
• catchy title
• includes at least one visual (with attribution) whether photo, cartoon, video or another web 2.0 tool like padlet or glogster
• interesting topic with the passion of the author coming through
• well written and not copy/pasted from somewhere else
• shows it has been proofread and spellchecked
• written in paragraphs – at least three of them
• includes links to other websites on similar topics – at least two of these’
I would agree with Ms.Wyatt and in particular I would say that visuals are important. So is checking one’s spellings. Sometimes, I have seen lovely posters made that were very visual, but a spelling mistake on the poster took away from the overall effect.
Ms. Wyatt asks that ‘When you have finished your post, please come back here to the blogging challenge and leave a comment on this post’.
Here is the link to the post she is talking about: http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/04/23/week-6-what-to-write-about/
She asks that you ‘mention what topic you wrote about and leave a link to your post’….not a link to your blog but to the post.
She says that if your posts covering the seven things mentioned above e.g. has a catchy title, includes at least one visual etc. etc., it will be added to the flipboard magazine.
Here is a link to all Ms. Wyatt said this week, https://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2017/04/23/week-6-what-to-write-about/
Have a good week and good luck with your blogging. Keep up the good work. I have every confidence in you.
With every good wish
Merry Beau
Thanks so much and I will start doing the #STUBC17!