About Me (Upgraded)!
March 10, 2017
Hello world! My name is Courtney! I’m 10 years old. My favorite sports are American football, softball, and gymnastics. I love to blog! I love writing stories! I have 3 pets, 2 dogs and 1 cat. My favorite food is Chinese food! I have done gymnastics for 7 years this year will be my 8th year doing gymnastics! I have played softball for 5 years so far and now I play travel softball! My tournaments start in April! I hope you like Blogging!
Here are some links about what I like to do:
Softball:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softball
American Football: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football
Gymnastics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics
In your comment tell me what you like to do for fun!
Hi, Courtney my name is Cicely. My favorite sport is also American Football. I don’t do gymnastics but I am on my school dance team. In my free time I like to listen to music or watch really old movies. Come visit my blog http://cicelyr.edublogs.org/
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 upgraded All About Me page and also you Student Blogging Challenge badge. That way when I visit your blog I am sure you are taking part. h
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
Dear Courtney,
You seem very busy with all your afternoon acitivities-do you stilll have time for school stuff or do you have struggles with keeping up?
Have a nice day and it would be really nice if you could check out my blog:) http://5owlsfanni.edublogs.org/
Hey Courtney, it’s so cool that you have 3 pets. I am not allowed to have anything bigger than a hamster… Do your pets get alog well with each other?
Check me out at: http://5owlsalinakop.edublogs.org/
Hello Courtney,
I enjoyed reading about you. I also have pets I have 2 dogs, one lizard, and a lot of fish(about 85).I like doing basketball. It is my favorite sport on earth. I used to do gymnastics. I will come a lot of times to your blog I love it so much.
comme check me out at: https://maddyonlineo.edublogs.org/
Have a great day! Your friend Maddy Online
Hello Again from Ireland.
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 am really hoping for a reply or a comment you. It would be fun to get a conversation started.
So long for now, with every good wish, Merry Beau
Hi Courtney,
Wow it’s really cool what you like to do. My favorite sport is soccer. Your really lucky about your softball tournament. I hope you do really well at the tournament.
Bye Alexandra Online
https://alexandraonlinep.edublogs.org/
Hi Courtney,
Thank you very much for visiting our blog and leaving such a good quality comment.
The students in my class are unfamiliar with softball but some of them do gymnastics and many of them love video games, watching TV and playing outside like you do.
Three pets! Gosh that must be a busy house. That is funny to hear that they sometimes get on, and sometimes don’t. We enjoyed your description of their behaviour.
Many of our students have pets: dogs, cats, goldfish, hamsters even snakes and lizards. I have a wonderful dog. Her name is Suki and she is an Akita. She is eight years old and she truly is a very precious member of our family. She is always glad to see us.
Lovely to visit your blog again. I thought your survey was really good. It was just asking to be filled in 😉
With every good wish Merry Beau
Hi Courtney, Thanks for replying. 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 visiting other blogs. Well done.
Keep up the great work, Merry Beau
Hi Courtney,
Thank you for visiting our class blog again. Yes Pokemon is very popular in our school at the moment. Many of the students are collecting Pokemon cards.
I love the Easter poster you did using Canva. We use Canva a lot.
Have you any Easter traditions; things you do every year around this time?
With every good wish
Merry Beau
Hello again,
I hope all is good with you.
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 Courtney, I love the work you are doing on Canva. My students like to use Canva 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