Derrick's Doghouse

The finale

Today was our very last day for our class to be together. We are just looking at the clips that we made we made about blogs. Mine is with three people boys and I'm on the right of the clip. We were bursting in tears. LOL!!!!! Hear are some of the lyrics... To the computer, to the keyboard to the keyboard, www.weblogs I'm always bloggin' on my weblog, blog, blog, blog,blog I got, I got, Igot Comments. Mrs. Davis said that the teachers would be laughing harder than we were. 

       Hope you enjoy the clips.

                      LOL!!!

 

ABC Blook of Blogs

 I don't believe it's the end of the year. We are fifth graders and will definitley miss Mrs. Davis's class. Friends, computers, laughter, blooks( blog book), and more! Emily, Jenny, and I have worked on a little topic about Music & Art being taken out of the schools. We did all right on it but we had it done in just 5 days.

  Mrs. Davis greeted us with tons of laughs. The  class has been making an Abc Blook that we have made and we are giving you a sneek peek.                                                                   

                                     

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URLs, utilities, using time wisely, understanding, ups & downs, unfortunately, united

up against the wall, up to par

There are many ups & downs when using weblogs. Fortunately, we use our time wisely and can come up with good leads. Unfortunately, we go through a zillion lousy leads to get there. Fortunately, we get to explore lots of URLs and there is dynamite dialog during this time. We have learned lots of utilities. Unfortunately, sometimes we still are up against the wall with not having enough time to make sure our writing is up to par. We think we have gained an understanding of what it takes to be a good writer. There are more ups than downs and we are united in our thinking that weblogs rock!

Weblog reflections

 

   We made our own weblogs and did posts about the news, our life, vacations, fun things to do, family activities, and more idioms. We got to talk to friends and teachers. We had some fun when Mrs. Davis introduced us to SuperThinker. She used to give us responses and clues so we could guess who she was. We are still trying to figure it out. Mrs. Davis said she would tell us who it is by the end of the year but some of us thought it was Mrs. Mateling, one of our fifth grade teachers. I really want to find out who it is by next Thursday. We had a lot of research papers and we had to do it for homework.   We are now in a nice class and we are now busy as beavers.  When I started I had a lot of mistakes and now that I was in Mrs. Davisª­s class I have gotten a lot better. Thanks to Mrs. Davis I am better than ever. Before I had three sentences and now I have paragraphs that are short but to the point. I have never seen long writing except for authors, but still they write books.

 

We had lots of fun this year and I hope all the others do too.

Derrick's Thoughts

  Today we were keep working on our ABC book. Some of the students got to draw pictures with the letter Mrs. Davis gave us. I was drawing Murphy who is a blue virus, has red and orange hair, and can destroy computers. My drawing is a little small but I can get it to size again. Mrs. Davis Said that I should use a fine point pen and trace over the objects in my picture.

                                That's what we did today.

 

Passionate Bowling

   I'm very passionate about bowling and that is what I think about all day except for schoolwork. I have been raising money so far and I have saved up exactly $166.00. When up there on the lane, ready to get a strike and when I throw it... "Bang!!!!" All the pins go flying and I have gotten an other strike. The highest amount of strikes I got in a row were 6 strikes. I can't wait for the bowling party at the end of the year.

  What are you passionate about?

Where Are You Super Thinker?

Where was that sound coming from!! It sounds like Super Thinker. She comes around the corner in a flash. I only heard on Thursday, 18th, 2003 that she comes around looking for posts to write flattering comments. She might go to your site so be excited about it!!!! I might get more remarks, comments, sayings, and utterances from Super Thinker so don't be afraid if you were COMPLEMENTED from her. So watch out for her!!!!

Thinking about Weblogs

    We were having a discusion with Mrs. Davis. She has given us information that would actually help us in our writing. I was motivated in the middle of the discusion because Mr. Richardson also gave information  for our writings and poems and stories of whatever interests us. Mrs. Davis said," You can look into other peoples thoughts to help you get what you want out on to paper." That really helped me when she said that. When I listen to some one elses thoughts I get thoughts in my head.

     I'm  able to have my very own weblog. We have to work hard on what we want to write about. That's what I learned from this discussion. Kids can write about the things that go on in their lives over the past couple of years. I could do that easily because I can remember as far back as kindergarten. That's what they can discuss on the internet if they wanted to. 

     I spent time helping Juana with her post to find the words inside that she want to talk about and write about. It is not very easy to do this and she is doing very well. How to do this is to talk to her, ask some questions and then write it down and then she  writes what she said.