Day+19

Tasks for today:
Read the morning announcements in FirstClass. Check your RSS feeds. We will take a few minutes to discuss any interesting articles. Find a current event to share first and then you may read your jokes.
 * 1) Finish your Word Collage.
 * 2) Retrospective Blog Post

Create a blog post that reviews the activities so far this year. The idea is to create a record of what you have done that you found interesting, difficult, exciting, or educational this year. As you do this, add photos and reflections. I am planning to share these posts with the rest of the middle school teachers, so use your best writing and ideas.
 * 1) Title: Quarter 3 in Review 2010-2011
 * 2) Paste the text below into the post. **Finish each sentence __and add at least one more sentence to it__ before going to the next.**

Last year when I was finishing 5th grade, I thought 6th grade was going to be...

Actually, I found out that 6th grade was...

I thought __________ was going to be hard but it turned out to be easy.

I thought __________ was going to be easy but it turned out to be hard.

Something I had no idea about, but turned out to be important was...

August 12 was the first day of school. I remember ...

During August, after school activities began. I have participated in and I remember ...

September 24 we had class retreats. I remember ...

We had a well deserved Winter Holiday. During the holiday...

Class trips are were last month, I will always remember ....

There have been a lot of changes this year. Something I am really good at is ...

Something I am not so good at is ...

Something I would like to improve on ...

I helped someone else to ...

Next quarter I am hoping ...

__**When you finish, think about adding another, a Slideshare, a Comic Strip, sound, and/or a CoolText banner.**__ If you finish this, have a look at Garageband. It is in your applications folder, put it in your dock. Be sure to use your head phones. Check out the videos to help get you started.