Mrs. Hossack's 1st grade class at Shanghai American School in Pudong uses a blog to discuss upcoming events, post information and keep everyone up to date on the activities of the classroom. She uses pictures and video clips to show their accomplishments and posts some of the children's creative writing samples along with their picture. There are also slide shows to display concepts that parents can work with their kids on and resource links for extra help. She appears to post weekly and the site seems to be a great centralized location for keeping up with this
first grade class!A Year 5 & 6 class from Ranzau school in Hope, Nelson, New Zealand also utilizes a blog system. These students add posts with their name as the keyword, writing mostly short paragraphs about things they are currently learning. They even have polls where the students can log onto and submit answers on various questions, such as "Where are you going for the holidays?" and students can choose one of four answers. Lots of photos are used to visually represents what they discuss and there is a great selection of class photos. Where this site delivers great information, it also appears to be a site where the students are involved in its creativity and therefore a great learning tool.
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