Ok so title has little to do with this post other than to date it really.  In terms of my goal, with the senior classes I am making a little progress.  Room 3 have begun blogging – just little articles that I have assigned them to write but the cool/interesting/great thing is that the kids are volunteering to do the writing.  I almost wish I had got the kids to name their surveys as it would be interesting to see if the kids who didn’t like writing were those kids that were volunteering…..perhaps next time.

One piece of writing I read from Room 6’s class blog blew me away.   I thought it was a piece of shared writing, but when I spoke to the teacher it was just the kids work.  The voice and thought in it is amazing – read it here.

I have also got the yr 2 digital classrooms blogging.  The kids seem really excited by it and the reaction from the other class whilst reading it is great.  Room 8 even has a buddy class at Meadowbank School – maybe we can begin to seek classes further afield.

Anyways, I seem to be cracking with this blogging and classes lark – sometime I do wish I had a little more control over what was going on in the classroom.  (Does this mean I want to go back into the classroom when I start questioning that??).  THis may end up being a long term goal that lasts longer than this term……