I want to be a producer!

During our economics unit, we've learned about consumers and producers. For this blog post, I would like you to imagine you are a producer.

For full credit, complete each item below in your post:

• Tell us about your product. (include a catchy name)
• List the resources you would use to make it.
• Describe how you would market it to your consumer.
• Who would be interested in buying it?
• Is it something you could export to other countries?
• Why would would other countries want to import it?
• Is it a renewable or non-renewable?
• Remember your first name or initials

To help you organize, you may want to start with a planning page. I would suggest you type it in word first, don't forget to save, and then copy and paste to the blog.

Due Friday, January 14

What makes a hero?

Our next SEM unit is about heroes, who they are, why we think of them as a hero, and what characteristics we admire in our heroes.

We'll be talking about the difference between a hero and someone who is famous or a celebrity. We'll ask you to create a list of your heroes and tell us why you admire this person or see him or her as a hero.

For this blog post, I would like you to write about the characteristics or personality traits that you think a hero should have. If you already know of a hero, you can describe this person.

Read other replies and feel free to comment to each other.

Ancient Civilization Museum

WOW!!! What a great trip! This morning our class toured 3 world-class museums and learned about 5 different ancient civilizations - without even leaving the school building!

For this blog reply, I would like for your group to share your thoughts, observations, or what you learned from the fabulous presentations.

To help you, here are the names of the different civilizations:

Ancient Greece
Ancient India
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Rome
Ancient China

Please check your spelling, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation before you post your reply.

Rights and Responsibilities

As members of a community, we all have rights and responsibilities. It is important that all citizens work together to solve problems and contribute.

For this blog post, I would like you to create a list of the rights and responsibilities you have as a member of Mountain Park. Please read and follow the directions to receive full credit for your reply.

Your group needs to:

1. Use a planning page (graphic organizer) to create a list or rights and responsibilities (this is a brainstorm list, think of as many as you can).

2. After you have at least 10 rights and 10 responsibilities, work with your group to revise and edit your list.

3. Once you have your final list, type it in a word document. Be sure to group them by rights and responsibilities.

4. Check your spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and word choice (this is part of your total score).

5. Copy and paste your list into the blog.

6. Include the first name of each member of the group.

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

Maps

We've been learning about maps. We've talked about the parts of a map (legend, scale, lines of latitude and longitude). For this blog post, I'd like you to tell us how people use different kinds of maps.

Use your Junior geographer book to find 3 different kinds of maps. In your reply, tell us the name of the kind of map and how people use it (what does the map show).

Don't forget to include your first name (this is an independent post) - no teams.

Please complete your post by Friday, September 3. I'll be checking for correct information and correct spelling (of words you should know), capitalization, punctuation, and complete sentences.

This blog post is worth 10 points.