{"id":587,"date":"2010-09-11T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T20:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=587"},"modified":"2010-09-11T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T20:10:16","slug":"great-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/11\/great-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Great First Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a great first week of school! I am lucky enough to get to work with three classes of 6th grade Science and two classes of 8th grade Science. Thanks to Mr. Rice&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/trice25.edublogs.org\/2010\/08\/27\/play-with-a-purpose-oobleck\/\">Play with a Purpose blog<\/a> we did a fun activity on the first day of school with oobleck. <\/p>\n<p>\nI had to take care of some business with 6th graders to help them participate in middle school fully plus get them ready to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csd49.org\/cms\/cispus\/\">Camp Cispus<\/a> next week. Yep, we&#8217;re going on a four day and three night trip on the second week of school! Exciting and nerve wracking! \ud83d\ude42 At camp we get to visit Mt Saint Helens so I shared some pictures of the volcano and students watched a cool video.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEighth graders got to practice thinking critically about what we find online with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/Critical_Thinking\/Scientific_Thinking.html\">hoax activity<\/a> I put together. It was a great way to get across the idea that you can&#8217;t believe everything you see on the Internet. Luckily, they knew that! Next week while I&#8217;m at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csd49.org\/cms\/cispus\/\">Camp Cispus<\/a>, 8th graders will be researching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/OilSpill\/Disaster.html\">Gulf Oil Spill<\/a>. I can&#8217;t wait to see what great things they create to share what they learn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is going to be a fantastic year, I&#8217;m so excited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great first week of school! I am lucky enough to get to work with three classes of 6th grade Science and two classes of 8th grade Science. Thanks to Mr. Rice&#8217;s Play with a Purpose blog we did a fun activity on the first day of school with oobleck. I had to take &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/11\/great-first-week\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[170,173,387,485,482,488,480,484,487,483,481,486],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news","tag-6th-grade-science","tag-8th-grade-science","tag-camp-cispus","tag-eighth-graders","tag-first-day-of-school","tag-gulf-oil","tag-mr-rice","tag-night-trip","tag-oil-spill","tag-oobleck","tag-play-with-a-purpose","tag-volcano","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}