Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Independent Writing Projects We're Working on This Summer

Wow! We've got MAJOR writing plans for this summer. These are just a few of the projects we're planning on completing over the summer. In the fall, we'll all have lunch and treats with Katie during lunch to share the projects we've created!
  • Charlotte: A chart/journal about my experiences at ice skating camp 
  • Jason: A diary about what happens over the summer
  • Ellis: Writing a journal with all the memories of what's happening over the summer and from the trips I go on
  • Bria: Creating a new character who goes into my two favorite TV shows and writing a diary from her perspective
  • Mayu: Create a teacher's notebook with student names, report cards, etc. 
  • Michael: Working with my mom and sister to make a book (ideas, etc.) 
  • Elliot: A guidebook to the first six Star Wars movies 
  • Andrew: A book about a sci-fi game that people play in the future where people enter a challenge, get a weapon, and have to fight their way through legions of monsters and zombies to get millions of dollars
  • Alec: A book of chemistry and physics
  • Jack: A survival guide to Stoney Lake 
  • Sam: A journal/entries of what I'm doing over vacation AND a journal from my trip to the Bahamas AND a journal from sleep-away cam
  • Ida; Finishing an earlier independent writing project AND writing some random fantasy stories 
  • Jonathan: Writing a science fiction story (continuation of my previous independent writing projects!) 
  • Jane: Making a Do-Anything Book from Camp (a book of all kinds of stuff me and my friends think of at camp) 
  • Sabina: A diary book, but from a different character's perspective (still kind of based off of what I do this summer) 
  • Katya: A sketch book of sketches from my travels and my writing about them
  • Dylan: A graphic novel about places I've been (a story of my summer) 
  • Sydney: (Maybe) A sketchbook of memories from my life with my writing about them 
  • Max: A sketch book of weird machines and information about how they work 
  • Leela: A fantasy/mystery involving India (where I'm traveling this summer)
  • Allie: A scrapbook with pictures and notes from my travels this summer
  • Adina; Writing a diary about a little girl named Sara
  • Emma: An album of memories (post pictures in it and write about them) from my whole life 
  • Chloe: Creating a photo album of what I see and do 
  • Ava: A journal of my summer adventures because I'm going on a lot of adventures 
How are your independent writing projects going? Have you started any new ones? 

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Last Day of Fourth Grade

Today was the last day of fourth grade! It's hard to believe the year is already over. I so enjoyed having each of you in fourth grade this year. Over the summer, I'll be sharing different links and articles with you on the blog that I think you will enjoy. Check back often! If you have anything you want me to post on the blog, email it to me.

What is your favorite memory from fourth grade? 

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Online Summer Book Club!

This summer, Class 4-324 will host a Online Book Club on our blog!!!

We'll choose books together that we want to read, and we'll read certain chapters in those books each week. Katie will post questions we can think about/blog about and some fun activities for us each week that relate to the book! We'll get to continue the fabulous conversations we've been having about books all year.

In order to make this happen, we need to choose books that kids are interested in reading for the book club.  Post all your suggestions for books we could read below! After we choose books, we'll order copies for all the kids who are interested in participating. If you have ideas about how to make the book club even more exciting, post those here too!