The big day!

Excitement ran rampant through our room today, is it was the day when the students finally began to write on their own blogs! The first thing we did this morning was to review the blogging criteria that the class came up with yesterday (see yesterday's post for a refresher!). After that, we talked about the importance of creating a good password, and how it was ours to keep private and not share with any of our friends (but it's OK to share with our parents!). Next, we had just enough time to get into the lab to test out our usernames and passwords, to make sure they worked properly (they did!). Later on in the afternoon, the students finally got their chance to log on to their blog, and write their very first posts! We didn't have a lot of time to write today (it was a busy day - in addition to all of our blogging work, we had Mrs. Cross come to our class to review lunchtime/playground expectations, a firefighter stopped by our class to give us a presentation on fire safety, Health, Phys. Ed., and a lockdown drill - phew!), so we didn't worry too much about meeting all of our blogging criteria. However, even though we only had about 20 minutes to write, EVERYBODY that was in class today wrote and published their very first post on their blog! I am so very proud of my class, and I can't wait to see how they grow as writers, through their blogging! Way to go, Room 18!

Please come and visit the student blogs (and leave comments!) at http://kidblog.org/MrHoeppnersClass/

(I saw this as I was signing agendas at the end of the day - made my day!)