Mr. Salsich’s class has 22 smart, creative students.
We get more done as a team!
Our school is located in Connecticut, USA.
We live in a beautiful coastal town right between New York City and Boston.
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Our Blog
Our blog is a journal of what we are learning in class. It’s also a place for students to express themselves. We’ll also use it to share what we have created – writing, art, science experiments, music, etc.
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Our blog is also to help us connect to other students around the world. We love to exchange ideas with blogging buddies who also have a class blog.
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What is a Blog anyway?
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Here is a link to a fantastic video from BrainPOP Jr. explaining blogs and blogging for students.
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Below is a good video from CommonCraft explaining blogs.
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As a teacher who has used a blog to communicate what goes on in my classroom, I am very inspired by your blog because your students are communicating directly to their audience about their learning. What an excellent example the wiki on the Pequots is. I really loved the different ways the children’s lessons were shown. Thank you so much for this. We are studying woodland Indians and I will be sharing your wiki with my class.
I have only been blogging with my students since the end of January and love looking at other class blogs. You have so many great ideas! I hope you won’t mind if I try to borrow some of your organizational ideas for our class blog.
Mrs.W
I just started blogging and I love it! Your blog is great and I will add it to the “blogs we like” links. I know that my 3rd graders will enjoy looking at your blog when school starts back up in August.
Jessica White (Memphis, TN)
mrsjessicawhite.edublogs.org
Hi
We have awarded your blog an EDUCATIONAL BLOGGING AWARD! Please see our recent post at http://www.56cliff.edublogs.org for details and instructions. It is now your turn to pass along the award to 10 blogs of your choice!
Thanks for your great blog, we enjoying reading your posts and learning from your class.
Mrs Cliff and 5/6C
G’day Mr Salsich and class,
Thanks for joining the September 2010 blogging challenge. I hope you enjoy the activities and if you have any suggestions for what a challenge could be, please leave a comment on the challenge blog.
What a fantastic blog Mr. Salsich’s class. I love your use of video and slideshows. You have a lot of great ideas and learning to share. Well Done
Dear Mr. Salsich’s Class,
We are very excited to learn about your class! We are learning about how to make new friends through blogging. This is a list of questions that our 4th graders have for your students.
If you took a vote, what would your students’ favorite subjects be?
What are some of the activities your students like to do after school?
Do you like to listen to music? What kinds?
What are some of your favorite games to play in school?
Mrs. Moore is our Technology teacher. She is the one who teaches us about blogging and uses Techie Kids. Do you have a special Technology class?
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Your Blogging Friends,
Brooklynn, Haley, and Savannah
From Techie Kids
Hello Mr. Salsish and Class,
I discovered your blog last spring while looking for some inspiration for my own class blog. I really love all of your entries! The student work is exceptional. Way to go, third graders!
I am also a third grade teacher and my class loves to read your blog entries. We are just getting started with our blog, I hope you’ll take a look. Could you give us an idea about how to best embed videos we make? We have several that we would like to upload, but they seem too large.
Looking forward to hearing about your next learning adventure!
Mrs. Delgado
Angell School
Ann Arbor, MI
Dear Mr. Salsich,
Could I bring in my mini cactus for “In The Desert” project? And are we going to do the “Kite Project”?
If I could bring in my cactus that would be great. ;D
Your Super Student,
Tommy
Dear Tommy,
It would be great to have your mini cactus for our desert project! It is going to be a lot of fun trying to make a giant saguaro in our room. It will also be a challenge, but I’m sure we can figure out how to do it.
I’m not sure if we are going to do the kite project in the spring. If not, we will do something just as interesting.
From,
Mr. Salsich
Dear Mr. Salsich,
I think we should each do a report about a different state in the United Sates. like Mississippi or Ohio and stuff like that.
from,
Hope
Dear Hope,
That is a fantastic idea, but I know that is something that you will learn a lot about next year in fourth grade. Of course, you could start learning on your own this year and I could help out.
From,
Mr. Salsich
Dear Hope,
It seems that there are people from different states who read your blog. Perhaps you could come up with a few questions you have about other states and readers could answer them. I am from NY state and would be happy to answer questions about it, or even have some third graders that I work with answer them. Also, when I was younger we had pen pals, maybe these days you could have email pals from a third grade in another state. That would be fun! Just some ideas. Your teacher would of course be the one to get approval from and help set things up. I like that you are wanting to learn more though! Stay inquisitive.
Sincerely,
Miss Schroeder
Hi,
Our class loves reading your blog and reading the wonderful writing you are doing in your class. We are also learning about writing with “show me” details in our writing time during the Daily 5. We have a question for you about your blog…How did you add the “blogs we follow” widget to your sidebar? We would like to do that on our class blog too, but can not seem to figure it out. Can you please help us out?
Much appreciated,
Mrs. Webb-Scheers and the students of 4WS
Dear Mr. Salsich,
You must like animals a lot to be having them all over the room. What is your favorite one?
From your supreme student,
Hope.
Dear Hope,
Yes, I definitely love animals! I hope the classroom doesn’t feel too much like the outdoors with all the animals around. It is too hard for me to pick a favorite animal, but some of my favorites are snow leopards, hippos, tree frogs, and nighthawks.
Do you have a favorite animal?
From,
Mr. Salsich
Dear Mr. Salsich,
My favorite animals are sharks, pigs, roosters, opossum, jellyfish, stingrays, dingos, all snakes, kangaroo rats, hippos and rhinos. I think all animals are cool!
From, Hope
Dear Mr. Salsich,
I think it would be interesting if we learned about rocks and minerials in class. I would also like to learn about famous people in history. I know we did that last year, but doing it was so much fun and I would like to do it again.
From,
Margot*
Dear Margot,
We are going to learn about rocks and minerals in the spring. It is a very fun unit. Mr. DeWire from Naturescapes will come in to show us different local rocks and minerals.
We don’t have a unit on biographies and famous people, but you can do a special project about a famous person if you would like during reading. let me know, and I can help you get started if you want.
From,
Mr. Salsich
Dear Mr. Salsich,
Are we going to have a post about our desert project? I think we should make a video or a voice thread because we have worked very hard on the project. The lines we are using for the tape could be recorded.
From,
Margot*
Mr. Salsich and class,
Students at Star of the Sea School in Virginia Beach, VA enjoyed looking at your blog today. Your class has done a fantastic job! We are constructing our own blog. May we add yours to our blogroll as a great example to follow?
Joanne Selig
Dear Ms. Selig,
Thank you for the kind comment. Of course you may add us to your blogroll! Please send us a link to your blog so we can return the favor and leave some comments.
Happy blogging
From,
Mr. Salsich
Dear Mr. Salsich,
I think we should do more of the research about the animals we studied earlier in the year like the videos and voicethreads that Emmett, me, Maggie and Amanda made in December and November. Maybe the people who have finished their projects could research another animal or work more on their Native American projects.
from,
Margot
Dear Margot,
I think that is a wonderful idea! We haven’t done any student voicethreads in a while. I’m going to try to really make time for the Native American projects this week and next week. It has been a little hard to work on science and social studies recently because of all the snow days, and it looks like we might have another one on Thursday! But we will fit the projects in, because working on your own research is one of the best things about school.
From,
Mr. Salsich
Dear Mr. Salsich,
When are you going to put up posts about the voice thread Taylor and I have been working on? I think if you do not put up that post soon you should put up the Juan Pablo post or the array post. I think if you want to wait a while that will be OK but I think people might get a little bored with the Mystery Project Showed post in a few days on Monday or Sunday.
From,
Margot*
in Mr. Salsich’s class
Congratulations on getting nominated for 2010 best class blog award.
from Elise and Caitrin
Dear Mr Salsich’s class,
I looked at your class blog today for quite a while, looking at lots of different videos and thinking about what you study, and how you study it. I especially like the science experiments. It’s really fun to see, and it seems like you all have a great time too.
The other reason I like your blog is because to make my living, I am a web designer, and in our job, we try hard to make our web sites “sticky”- and your blog is very sticky… it’s great!
Sticky means really interesting, so that people get stuck to it, because they keep reading all the different parts!
Keep up the good work everyone, and I’ll keep reading!
A friend in Scotland,
-Kristin
ps… I’m Alexandra’s Auntie!
Hi, Love your blog. I am looking for some new blog buddy partners for the fall and was wondering if you would be interested in giving it a try?
Checkout our class blog and let us know.
Mr. Alvaro
edublogs.misd.net/theskinny
I am a graduate student studying teaching at a university in Minneapolis, MN. I am in a technology in education class right now, and we were assigned to look through some student blog sites. I picked yours to look at because I grew up on CT, not too far from Stonington. I went to high school in New London, CT. Your blog site is really nice; very colorful, informative and interesting. Good work. Happy Summer!!
I love your blog! I am a 4th grade teacher in Mt. Pleasant, SC and I’m planning to start my very first class blog this school year. Would it be ok with you if I used your blog as a model for students? I’m hoping to make my blog a place for parents and students to interact about what we do at school all day.
Great site!
Dear Mr. Salsich,
The Classroom Connection heads back to school for our first day Sept. 6th. I am very excited to start blogging with a new group of students. Hopefully we will get a chance to collaborate with you and your class on a project together this year. Maybe we could set up a Quad Blog once my students get the hang of blogging and learn about leaving good quality comments…the possibilities are endless!
I am glad to hear that you are doing the Daily 5 this year with your class. You will LOVE it. My favorite part (beside giving the kids choice) was the conferring/scheduling binder(the pensive). I found it made me more accountable to getting in all of my student conferences each day and it really helped with making sure we were focued each time I met with a child. Good luck with the process!
Your Blogging Buddy,
Mrs. Webb-Scheers
Hello Mr.Salsich,
I’m Lachlan from grade 6 at Leopold Primary School Victoria, Australia!
WOW your class dosent have a uniform. We have a green top with yellow Stripes. Do the teachers have uniforms here?
At my school it’s opitnial for teacher’s to wear a uniform!
See you
Lachlan
Dear Mr.Salsich’s class
Hello, how are you today? That is cool how every blog has a about us page. We have 23 kids in our class we have 2 more kids in our class then you. I have some questions for you people in Mr. Salsich’s class. Do you like your blog or love it or not a big fan? I hope you have a great Christmas!
From,
Rachel in the classroom connection
Dear Mr.Salsich,
Our class sent you math books of five addition and five subtraction. We were really excited to send them! Some people are still working on them but we will send them soon. Our class really loves your blog. We visit it all the time! Hopefuly one day our class will get to skype with your class. Does your class like doing art? We do! In art class we are learning about Michelangelo!
Maci
The Classroom Connection
Dear Mr Salsich,
I have enjoyed learning about your class.
My teacher Miss Davis also writes a blog.
Feel free to check it out!
http://year4atalks.weebly.com
Love,
Abi
Hi. My teacher is also Miss Davis. She likes your blog so much that she made it homework to check it out.
Dear Mr.Salsich,
I have enjoyed a lot learning about your class.
I’m a student from Miss Davis.
Love,
Michelle
Dear Mr. Salsich!
I am so excited to hear about your class Blog. It will be wonderful to follow all the new and interesting things your class will be learning this year! Thank you for letting us share in your great adventures.
Your Reader,
Nora’s Grandfather
Hello boys and girls. I teach a grade 2 class near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We are just beginning to blog and are excited to look at different class blogs. You have a lot of interesting information on your blog. I love the photo with all the hands overlapping in a circle. It shows what a great team you are! Thanks for sharing your learning with me. From Mrs. Leavell
http://www.psdblogs.ca/tleavell/
Dear Mr Salsich,
I love your class blog! I am a sixth grade student in your friend Mr. Avery’s sixth grade class. I just earned a blog from him and I am very excited about it. Mr. Avery told me that you and I have the same blog theme! I guess we both have good taste. Anyway if you want to visit my blog go to http:/www.truthaboutlife.edublogs.org. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Emily B.
I love the way your classroom blog is organized. I hope you do not mind that my students will be visiting your website to learn how to improve their writing and comments. I teach 4th grade in an inner city school in NJ if you ever want to exchange ideas, let me know. http://kidblog.org/MrsVilas/
Dear Mr.Salsich,
I enjoyed your post about you.
I love the picture of all of your hands.
I have a new blog.
I would really appreciate it if you visited!!!
http://www.arsafai.edublogs.org
From,
Ariel
In mr Avery’s class
Hi everyone,
I love your class blog! It is really interesting. I was most intrigued by the global projects you are invested in. Connecting with students all around the world is awesome and a great learning experience. I love the commitment of this class! It is very inspiring!
hi i am adeba from afghanistan