5th Grade Blog Post

It's going to be a great year in room 201... here's your first assignment:

1. Blogs:  Make sure you can get into your blog, and write your first post!  If you don't have a blog, we'll get one set up for you first thing.  Call your first post "New School Year: 2019-2020." Your first post for the year should include the following:

• What do you love about school?
• What do you not like about school?
• What are you looking forward to this new school year?
• What skills do you have that will make you successful this school year?
• What challenges or obstacles might hinder your success this school year?
• What are your goals for this school year?  Be specific!  How do you want to improve yourself and grow as a student and as a person?  Make an academic goal, and make a personal goal as well.

2.  Publish your post.  Then go to "view blog."  Please e-mail the url (web address) of your blog to Mrs. Edlin at tena.edlin@fairfieldsfuture.org (go to g-mail and compose an e-mail, copy and paste that web address inside your e-mail and then send).

3.  When you're done with everything, you may go to any of the sites on my blog along the left hand margin under the category: Idleness Prevention Society.

Deep Thinking Friday: Six Word Memoirs

Watch the following:







Now, think of your own Six Word Memoir. Brainstorm several ideas on some notebook paper. Then, get a notecard and make a final copy. Make it something to be proud of.

Back to School & Back to GOAL

It's going to be a great year in room 201... here's your first assignment:

1. Blogs:  Make sure you can get into your blog, and write your first post!  If you don't have a blog, we'll get one set up for you first thing.  Call your first post "New School Year: 2019-2020." Your first post for the year should include the following:

• What do you love about school?
• What do you not like about school?
• What are you looking forward to this new school year?
• What skills do you have that will make you successful this school year?
• What challenges or obstacles might hinder your success this school year?
• What are your goals for this school year?  Be specific!  How do you want to improve yourself and grow as a student and as a person?  Make an academic goal, and make a personal goal as well.

3.  Check the right-hand margin of Mrs. Edlin's blog.  If you don't see yours there, please e-mail the url (web address) of your blog to her at tena.edlin@fairfieldsfuture.org.

4.  Goodreads Accounts:

If you DO NOT have a Goodreads account yet, we'll get you set up with one.
If you DO have a Goodreads account, you need to check/edit your bookshelves.

• You will need the following shelves to keep track of your books for this year:
• Science Fiction
• Realistic Fiction
• Poetry/Novels in Verse
• Mystery
• Historical Fiction
• Graphic Novels
• Fantasy
• Classics
• Action/Adventure
• Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
• Informational Nonfiction
• Add a shelf for "2019-2020 School Year."
• Make sure you're a part of the FMS GOAL group, and if you're not, request to join.
• Add friends from the FMS GOAL group, if you'd like to (the more friends you have, the more informative/helpful/interesting your news feed will be).
• Accept all friend requests from GOAL students in any grade.
• Adjust your notification preferences to whatever works best for you.
• Read through your updates, looking for books you might want to add to your "Want to read" shelf.

5. If there are any design modifications you'd like to make to your blog (background colors, margin widths, etc.), you may do it now.  Play around with it, and make it your own!

6.  When you're done with everything, you may check out books from my library and read and/or go to any of the sites on my blog along the lefthand margin under the category: Idleness Prevention Society.