Bees Galore! by Susan Wright is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Busy Bee by Susan Wright is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Google Earth and Writer's Workshop

My 5th graders are in the middle of an expository essay unit. To get them excited about writing, I added Google Earth into the mix. We are creating a "ping" on the globe, marking our animals point of origin. The students are adding the introduction to the "ping" and a Creative Commons image of their animal. Hoping I have enough time to bring everything all together before the end of the school arrives! Enjoy listening to our latest on the trials and tribulations of  creating a Google Earth tour.

May 9, 2011 ~  Project Update

Graycen's Quilt

I made this quilt over two years ago for my granddaughter, who was born in April of 2009. It can be considered a scrap quilt, since it contains 24 different fabrics. I machine pieced it, then had it machine quilted in East Lansing. It was given to her, on the day she was born along with a basket of books=8-) Graycen is now two years old - and loves to be read to.

Graycen's Quilt by Susan Wright is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Alien Adventure 2009

In December of 2009, I was looking for something that would get my students writing. Thinking about how my 5th grade students enjoy socializing with each other (even when they shouldn't), the ePals Global Community came to mind. I signed up a couple of years of go, but hadn't done anything special with it. So, I dusted off my account information, entered the site, and keyed in a description of my class and what kind of interaction, I wanted for my students. That's when Cal Rains from South Korea, and his students came into our lives. Cal had a global project he was wanted to start up and was looking for interested teachers. I signed up for the adventure and soon a partnership was born. Cal continued looking for teachers for the adventure and I started creating the project's "web site" using Blackboard. By February 20010 we were up and running - with 13 teachers from 11 different countries participating.