Treasure Chest of Thoughts

The test is over!  School is back in session!

Today my juniors played…and had fun.

1. First they drafted in their Writer’s Notebook about two topics.
2. Next they posted these thoughts on their individual blogs.
3. Then copy/pasted this content into Wordle.

I had hoped to get to #4…printing and publishing for the rest of the school to see.  Unfortunately, we had some difficulties staying connected with Blogger.  (Note to self:  contact tech people to inquire about this.)

Despite this setback, excitement was in the air!

We also began discussing the Holocaust as I assigned each student a poem written by a child in the Terezin Concentration Camp.  With only this poem to use as a means of getting to know their very young person, each student will create a memorial to this child by creating a butterfly to hang in my room.  This project was inspired by Dr. Pezz at The Doc Is In.

Not one single moan.  Not one!

In one of my English classes, a student was lamenting not being able to type and print her paper due to her computer’s hard drive being reformatted.

I commented,  “Don’t forget; you can use Google Docs.”

A true light bulb moment! Her face lit up. ”I forgot about that,” she said.

Problem solved.  Oh, if all problems were so easily resolved!