Jul 07
Chimacum, WA is home to a lovely lake that for a few months of the year, late spring and early summer, becomes toxic, deadly toxic! Some of my 6th graders researched our deadly lake and wrote about it. Here’s a great blog post written by one 6th grader about our deadly lake!
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Jul 06
This 6th grader wrote a nice piece for a water pollution Public Service Announcement (PSA) activity we did in class. Check out her blog post and see what you think!
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Jul 05
Here’s another of my 6th grade blog posts. This one on the topic of social media and cyberbullying. Check it out and see what this student has to say!
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Jun 07
Here’s a blog post one of my 6th graders wrote for our World Solutions blog about the chicken industry. Warning: the video on this post, suggested by another one of my students who read her blog post, is very disturbing. Check it out and leave her a comment!
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May 05
In my last post I shared learnings and takeaways from some Common Core ELA trainings I’ve attended around the CCSS-ELA Shift 2 (students need to engage in, “reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational”). This post continues with more about Shift 2. Questioning!Now that you’ve selected the perfect complex …
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Apr 29
I have a 6th grader who wanted to post something different to our World Solutions blog. She wanted to tell a short story of bullying. She focused on kids who are bullied just for being who they are and how wrong that is. Head on over to our World Solutions Blog and watch her short …
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Apr 12
In my last post I shared learnings and takeaways from some Common Core ELA trainings I’ve attended, specifically implications around the first shift of the common core that states that our students need to be reading complex texts. In this post I’m going share my learning about CCSS-ELA Shift 2. Common Core Shift 2 states …
Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2016/04/12/text-is-boss/
Apr 11
Food Miles? What is food miles, you ask? Check out this 6th grader’s summary of an awesome activity we did in class to raise student awareness of food traveling to get to your plates!
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Mar 08
Spanish, Cuban, was my first language, I grew up speaking Spanish. Before I started going to school I watched Sesame Street on TV and learned enough English that by the time I went to school I could communicate in English! English came much easier to me than Spanish and even though I spoke Spanish everyday …
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Jun 08
6th Grade Blog Post about the Problem with Cows
June 8, 2016
Another post written by one of my 6th graders for our World Solutions Blog about The Problem with Cows. She did some great research and takes an environmental look at the impact of cows on our planet. Check out her post and leave her a comment if you get a chance!