Blogging

Students in grades 2-8 have been blogging for the past two years through the use of a site called Kidblog. One blogging activity that we've participated in is called Quadblogging which was created by David Mitchell in the UK. Four schools are partnered up and then share their blog posts with each other so the other three schools are able to read the posts and leave comments. It's a great way to give students a purpose and an audience for their writing.

Similarly, we've also participated in another British project called The 100 Word Challenge created by Julia Skinner. Students in grades 4-8 were given a writing prompt and then had just 100 words to use in writing about the prompt. The version for younger students in grades 3 and under who are still beginning writers is called The Five Sentence Challenge.