Melanie's Schoolblog

Elementary Student's Reflections on Weblogs

1. What is your favorite thing about weblogs?

My favorite thing about weblogs are that we are posting what we think and what we write about the news being put out in the public.

2. What have you learned?

I have learned how to use different things on the weblogs, what a lead is, and how to appreciate what people write to me even when criticizing me because it might even help me in the future.

3. What will you do with what you have learned?

I will take the knowledge that I have and someday build my own weblog.

4. Can you see using weblogs in other classes?

Yes. We could use them to share good grades that some students have and some experiment ideas with other classes all over the world.

5. Do you ever find yourself helping others to learn something? How does that feel? Is this a normal role for you or new to you?

Yes, I always find myself helping others to learn what they might not understand. This feeling is definitely one of the good ones; it makes you feel important and proud. This is a normal feeling for me.

6. If an outsider visited your site, what would you hope he/she would think about it?

I would hope that they would think highly of my news stories. I would want them to notice how my stories have improved from the beginning to now.

7. In what ways have you become a better writer?

I have improved my vocabulary by using more educated words. Instead of the usual bad, scary, happy, and fun, I looked the words up in the thesaurus to hopefully get my new word.

8. How does having a weblog effect how you learn?

You get to learn in a completely different way. It's exciting to learn by the way of the web. It lets me voice my opinion out into the public instead of just to my teacher.

9. Looking back, what do you wish you would have learned about that you didn't? Or, what would you do differently if you could go back, knowing what you know now?

I wish that I would have known that there was a such thing as weblogs so that I could have started typing to the public earlier.

10.  If you could start a weblog of your own, what would you write about?

I would write about different sports tips for people.

 

                                                                   -MelanieJ

Interview Questions for our Teacher

Today we are going to do an interview. By we I meant that Mrs.Davis allowed us to bring a friend to group. I decided to bring my best friend Alicia. She is going to simulate our teacher, by telling how she thinks our teacher would answer. We got into the whole interview thing when Mrs.Davis showed us some of the mini-lessons that were on the Georgia-NJ connection. They talked about questions that you could ask in an interview. We will also include a disclaimer with our interview.

Disclaimer

           Melanie and Alicia's Interview with Mrs.Mateling

 

1. Melanie and Alicia: How long have you been working as a teacher?

Mrs.Mateling: I have been teaching for 32 years.

 

2. Melanie and Alicia-:Have you ever taught in another county? Which county did you like better?

Mrs.Mateling: I have ealso taught in Chatam County. I like Rockdale County better.

 

3. Melanie and Alicia: What college did you graduate from?

Mrs.Mateling: I graduated from the University of Georgia.

 

4. Melanie and Alicia: Why did you decide to become a teacher?

Mrs.Mateling: As a kid I figured that I would never in my life become a teacher, but then realized how great the job would be for my personality.

 

5. Melanie and Alicia: How do you feel about the war in Iraq?

Mrs.Mateling: I feel that our soldiers are doing a very good job in protecting the United States.

 

6. Melanie and Alicia: What did you feel like when you heard about the man drowning his pregnant wife?

Mrs.Mateling: I thought it was disgraceful because the baby was his own flesh and blood.

 

7. Melanie and Alicia: What is the happiest thing you have heard on the news lately?

Mrs.Mateling-:That they found Saddam's brother's DNA and might be able to track Saddam.

 

8. Melanie and Alicia: What is the saddest thing you have heard on the news lately?

Mrs.Mateling: The Lacey Peterson case.

 

9. Melanie and Alicia- What is your favorite thing to do out of school?

Mrs.Mateling- Going to visit my mother in Savannah, spending time with my kids, and eating at Golden Corral.

 

10. Melanie and Alicia: Why did you decide to work at J.H.House out of all the other schools?

Mrs.Mateling: It is a greatly educated school and I love the people and children here.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer

 

The contents of this interview published by Melanie and Alicia are solely the responsibility of the weblog authors for the posting on simulated interviews with our teachers. Statements made and opinions expressed in these interviews are based on what we believe would be the responses of our teachers.  This activity was developed to help us develop good questions for interviews and then write the interview in a form that would be clear, concise, and interesting for our teacher and others to read.  We, of course, are trusting that our teacher will enjoy this activity as much as we have. We really hope our teacher will agree that our answers could be her answers and will be amazed at how well we have come to know her!  We would like to dedicate this post to Mrs.Mateling and say thank you for a wonderful year.

Possible Interview Questions

1. How long have you been working as a teacher?

2. Have you ever taught in another county? Which county did you like better?

3. What college did you graduate from?

4. Why did you decide to become a teacher?

5. How do you feel about the war in Iraq?

6. What did you feel like when you heard about the man drowning his pregnant wife?

7. What is the happiest thing you have heard on the news lately?

8.What is the saddest thing you have heard on the news lately?

9. What is your favorite thing to do out of school?

10. Why did you decide to work at J.H.House?

Cinquains in the News

                                                Saddam

                                        hateful, rude, mean

                                       hiding, hating, killing

                                  dishonest, scarey, horrible

                                              Hussein

                                                                       -Melanie

Women Aviators

Today I read an article about women flying called Women aviators now flying military aircrafts. I am going to write a Haiku poem.

1. 5 syllables

2. 7syllables

3. 5 syllables

 

Women pilots soar

Serving as combat pilots

Females earned their wings

                                              - Melanie

Goodbye Melanie!

Melanie-

It has been a real pleasure working with you on writing.  I learned some new things as well.  Just so you know, in the picture of all of us, James and Amanda are below me, Amanda has on a black shirt with red on it and her hair is dark, dark brown.  James is right next to her with the red shirt on.  Thanks for all your help, I'll never forget you.  Enjoy every minute of you life, and always be your own person.  If you ever need anything, even if its not school related, feel free to email me at [email protected] .  I would really like to hear from you sometime to see how you are doing.  Good luck Melanie.

-Jen

Consequences of Crime

     Corey Clark, one of American Idol's contestants, got booted off the show. Corey had been lying to the show about some bad things he had done.

      He beat his 15 year old sister and resisted arrest. He also ran from the cops.

        '' Withheld information about a prior arrest which, had it been known, might have affected his participationin the show,'' said  Fox.

            When police checked his police report, they spelled his name wrong pulling up someone else report. 

                                                         -Melanie

Thank You New Jersey Students

Dear  Jen, James, & Christina,

 

I would like to thank you for your time and your help. I have learned many things in such a short time. I feel that my writing has gotten better.

 

      I am upset because this might be the last time I ever talk to ya'll. I would like to know where all of you are in the picture. I only found out where Jen was. I hope that we will still stay in touch.

 

                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                                Melanie

Obesity Lead

    Over half of the world's children are obese. They become rotund because they eat too much junk-food or they simply eat too much.