Sunday, November 14, 2010

Pictures of the Day-- Student protests in London

Not sure I quite understand this one...
Some of my best friends are poor.

I can't think of a response to this one.

For more on the protests, click here.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

A basketball

This week I was teaching my fifth graders the difference between observations, inferences, and opinions. For practice, I had them write about an object they all know well-- a Baden Junior Official 110 basketball that the kids get to play with at recess. Here is a selection of their work:

I feel like I Love basket ball I Love to play basketball and that is my favorite sport. It fun to play basketball.
--C-P (girl)

I don't like people who invent basketballs. Basketball is a good sport. It looks like a face.
--M (boy)

its fun
wouldnt need one
better than soccer
looks kinda new
it needs different
colors
annoying sometimes
--C (girl)

Basket balls is tight! Basket balls is a good exercise. basketballs is popular.
--X (boy)

Basketballs can be play more likely outside., People play basketballs because it's entertaining
--A (girl)

basketballs is great
in philippines our sport
is basketball there
very fun to play with.
--A (boy)

soccer it better
--H (boy)

It's brighter than the
black stripes on it
It's fun
I wish I had one
It's darker than my pink nails
people love to play
with basketball
looks like an orange
It hurts when you get hit by it
--F (girl)

Basket balls are fun to play with. I like the feeling of the bumps. It's fun when you bounce it and it comes back to you. I like the prints on the basketball.
--A (girl)

Fun to Play with
Fun to throw
Fun to
bowl with
--J (boy)

I like basketball but maybe other people don't. Sometimes I think that basketball could get boring because you play it a lot. I think that is dirty. I think Football is way cooler than basketball. ugly, boring, fun. I mostly like playing Football than basketball.
--J (girl)

it's orange
and it smells
like mystery and
feels like tiny
thorns.
--J (boy)

boring ball
ugly ball
weird ball
Dirty ball
annoing
--H (girl)

basketball is somehow
better than other ball
basketball are fun lots
of people like or want
to play it.
--U (girl)








"Hockey ought to be sternly forbidden, as it is not only annoying but dangerous." Halifax Morning Sun, quoted in Michael McKinley's Hockey - A People's History