What is a "good" citizen?

On the first day of school, we talked about what makes a good student and a good teacher.

For this blog post, I'd like you to expand your ideas to think about what makes a good citizen? Use Chapter 1 in your social studies book to help you think about how good citizens contribute to their communities.

In your reply, I would like you to answer the following questions?

• How does a good citizen contribute to or help their community?
• What traits do good citizens have in common?
• How can a community encourage more people to be good citizens?

Please include your initials or first name in your reply so you can earn credit. For full credit you must have:

1. Complete sentences
2. Correct punctuation
3. Correct capitalization
4. Correct subject-verb agreement
5. Complete response

Your reply is due by this Friday, October 1, 2010.

Thank you

Communities

This week we will start talking about communities and the importance of being a good citizen.

For this post, I would like you to write about your community:

• how does it look,
• what do people in your community do,
• how do they live,
• where do they work, and
• how do they travel

Please include your initials or first name in your post so you can earn credit for your reply. You reply will be scored for:

1. Complete response
2. Correct punctuation
3. Correct capitalization
4. Correct subject-verb agreement
5. Complete sentences

Replies are due this Friday, October 1, 2010.

Thank you

Welcome Mrs. Brock!

Next week you will meet our student teacher, Mrs. Brock. She is learning all about being a teacher and can't wait to meet you all. I've told her a little about you, but for this blog post, feel free to write to her (using the comments), and she'll read and respond.

Remember to include your first name so she'll know to whom she is writing.

Student Council Representatives

From Mrs. LaPietra and Student Council:

"It is time to elect student council members in your classrooms.

Please have a class election and select two students who will be your class representatives for student council. Remind them that this is an afterschool responsibility. We meet one day a month after school until 3:30 and host several activities after school and even on weekends. It is ok if they miss one or two events but if they think they will miss a lot of the events or are too busy, they should let someone else who can be there, be the rep. Also, the class representatives will be responsible for reporting back to their homerooms the details from our meetings. We do a lot of civic minded activities like Reverse Trick or Treating in a local nursing home, a Thanksgiving food drive, raise money for Cystic Fibrosis with Jar Wars, School Spirit days, School Cleanups, Relay For Life for cancer research, and The Angel tree for the elderly, plus much more."

For this blog post, please type a few sentences telling us why you would make a good student council representative. Please include your first name in your reply.

Voting will open Monday morning.

Habitats

You've started learning about habitats this week in your science class. Please share some things you've already learned about different habitats.

Please include your first name so I'll know who to come to if I want to learn more about habitats!

Replies may be posted through Friday, Sept. 17