K-12 Blogging in the Classroom (U.S.)

While searching for K-12 blogs, I came across an elementary school in Nebraska where every teacher has a class blog. Willowdale Elementary is located in Omaha, NE. The students write something and give it to the teacher for her to post on the class blog. One of the blogs I enjoyed was Mrs. Brown's Kindergarten class. I found that their blog on making a gingerbread boy was very cute and creative. The class made a gingerbread man or "boy" as they call him. When the class took the cookie to be baked, they pretended that he ran away. They acted out the story and then went back to the classroom and ate the gingerbread "boy".The picture on the left of this page is the Kindergarten class making the gingerbread.The class also was reading a book called, Snowmen at Night. On the blog the children have summarized what the snowmen like to do. That was very cute as well.
The other class blog I looked at was Mrs. Sempek's class blog. She teaches fourth grade. One of her students wrote about how good it is to donate winter clothes because people need them. That is a very important life lesson and makes me feel good knowing that teachers are teaching children about giving to those in need. Another post from that class was about a food drive that the school had. These students realize how great it is to give to the needy. These blogs are also helpful to parents to let them know whats going on in the classroom.The photo on the right is of Mrs. Sempek's class collecting food for the food drive.