February
15
SEE THINK WONDER Egypt
This expedition for VR is about Ancient Egypt. I got to see the pyramids that the Pharaohs are placed in of Egypt and I got to see the Sphinx. I really like the Sphinx because it looks really awesome and it has some of the hieroglyphics in it! I hope that you learn something about Egypt when you read this SEE THINK WONDER
Hi Elise! I liked this post because the whole thing had many details. I wish you had talked about the queens and kings there and a little less about the pharoahs. I wonder if you have ever been to Egypt? Please get back to me as soon as possible!
http://blog.elanco.org/mullins203/
Have a Great Day!
Your Friend,
Katie
Hi Katie, thank you for commenting on my blog! I don’t really know about the kings and queens but that would have been something good to put in there! NO! I have never been to Egypt. That would be really awesome if I could though!
Please come back and comment on my blog!!! 🙂
Hi there,
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 you have too. So you will know that 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. I was DELIGHTED to see your 2017 Student Blogging Challenge badge. That way when I visit your blog I am sure you are taking part. I can’t seem to see an All About Me page. Do you have one yet?
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
Hi, I am glad that you will be blogging with me and that you will be my mentor. I unsubmitted my About Me Page because I was going to be making a better one. I am still working on it so, that is why you think that I don’t have an about me page. 🙂 I do hope to come and see your blog and I will be sure to comment!!!
I hope to see you again on my blog and you are welcome so please come back! 🙂 http://blog.elanco.org/Krock950/
Hello Again from Ireland Elise.
Thank you for your reply. I understand now why I thought you didn’t have an About Me page.
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.
Thanks again for replying. It is great to get a conversation started.
So long for now, with every good wish, Merry Beau
Hi again, your welcome for replying on your comment and I do LOTS of activities! I do Trumpet, Piano, Gymnastics, Softball, GOTR (Girls On The Run) and Spartan Band. I do all of these because I am interested in all of them! I wonder what your hobbies are? Here in Pennsylvania, we have spring started too! I am so excited for warmer weather coming! For our Winter, we didn’t get as much snow as last year. Anyway thanks for commenting on my blog once again. I really enjoy that you are my mentor because then I can keep commenting with somebody!
Please come back and comment on my blog!!! 🙂
Hi Elise, Thanks for replying. Gosh you are busy with all those after school activities. Great that you have so many interests. My hobbies are blogging, gardening, swimming and walking my dog. The children I teach do lots of activities: sports, music, theatre group and even Science Club. Just checking in on all the students that I am mentoring to check that the challenge is going well for people. I can see that it is going well for you; that you have your challenge badge up, and are doing lots of the suggested challenges. Also you are responding to comments. Well done.
Keep up the great work, Merry Beau
Hi Merry, thanks for commenting on my blog once more. Science Club does sound fun so I guess that is why so many of your students of interest in it! Thank you! Oh, and I probably wouldn’t have done it without you because you are the one who helps me work through helping to comment on everyone else’s work. You are the one who helped me really well and my teacher who you probably has seen his blog, Mr. Geiman.
Please come back and comment!!! I will be sure to come back to yours! See you next time!
Hello again Elise,
I hope all is good with you.
I really appreciate your reply.
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
Hello again,
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