What Would Happen If EVERYONE Cared?

What would happen if everyone cared? This is a question posed when introducing Challenged Based Learning today. Mrs. Morrow stressed to students that even though we are 8th grade students in O'Neill, NE, we really can make a difference with our writing. Students will look for problems they see in our school, community, and society in general, then choose something they are passionate about to focus on. They will then try come up with solutions for how to use their writing to make a difference with this problem. This will be an ongoing project students will work on throughout the school year. Take a look at Mrs. Morrow's website for more information: http://www.challengebasedlearning.org/challenge/view/163 In other news, it is Homecoming Week and today's dress up day is Polka Dot Day. We are so glad that Lauren CARED enough to show her school spirit and dress up today! She earned the 8th grade class 10 points that will go towards the Class Spirit Award.

Back to blogging!

It has been a L - O - N - G time since I have blogged! I'm fired up about our class blog and all the way cool blogs my students are putting together. Leave it to my inspirational team teacher, Mrs. Morrow, to get me excited about this! It was her idea to have students use the blogs as a place to share their writing with a wider audience; I love this idea. Now I'm trying to be a good model and commit to my blog, too. I've been working in my classroom this evening thinking about our 8th grade English class. I've been looking at plans and looking over the writing forum we will use to post and respond to writing, but I'll tell you more about that later. For now, I just wanted to share this picture of the bulletin board Mrs. Morrow put together in my room. It's a first page print out of each students' blog! It makes me happy every time I look up to see it!