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Mighty Writers 2011-12

From the third graders in room 12 at Arbor Heights Elementary

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by Mark Ahlness

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Teacher Assignments

Summer Writers!	06/30
Last Day of School	06/24
My Blog	06/14
Changing Desks	06/05
Field Trip!	05/21
MSP	05/10
New Computer Lab!	05/10
Spring Break	04/25
Spring Break Plans	04/14
Earth Day	04/12
Public Speaking	04/04
Best of My Blog Books	03/23
Pacific Science Center	03/06
Mid-Winter Break Plans	02/24
Drawing First	02/24
Snow Days!	01/20
Holiday Lights	01/11
Resolutions and Wishes	01/05
A Winter Memory	12/07
Turkey Escape, 2011	11/19
Spooky Stories	10/29
About the XO Laptop	10/18
My Favorites	10/11
MAP Test	09/30
School So Far	09/21

Teacher Entries

Looking Back at the XO Laptop		9/2
Art at Home!		8/18
Summer Writers!		6/30
The End of Our Blog		6/14
Changing Desks!		6/5
List 5, 10, all

Student Entries

R	My fishing trip	8/22
R	My New Lock	8/21
L	4th of July	7/23
S	The summer.	6/29
V	New Barbie Stuff	6/26
V	books and breaks	6/22
H	last day of school	6/22
E	Last article	6/22
S	the end of school	6/22
L	Not The End of my Blog	6/22
M	last	6/22
C	not the end of my blog	6/22
J	yay i get to keep my blog	6/22
E	The Last Day Of School	6/22
E	The Last Day	6/22
M	The Last article	6/22
D	Bye Bye	6/22
J	The End of My Blog	6/22
L	THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL	6/22
M	The last day of school	6/22
C	Persuasive Writing	6/18
M	Come on	6/18
V	blog!!!!!!	6/18
R	Persuasive Writing	6/18
D	persuasive	6/18
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Looking Back at the XO Laptop

Article posted September 3, 2012 at 01:53 AM GMT0 • comment • Reads 208038

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Comment Posted on September 28, 2011 at 02:44 PM by roadrunnermemep

where you scard.I will sing the song ok.
Comment Posted on September 28, 2011 at 02:35 PM by roadrunnermemep

Wait. You there are other people on your bus besides Allied folks? If so, who gets dropped off first. I also don't understand why your bus doesn't go straight to your house. It does this for me, why not you? And like your bus, we are also very tired in the morning. Gabe, Dominque, and Jay sleep or listen to their I-pods. We sit in silence for the whole half hour. (Well its a half hour for me, I think its and hour for Gabe.)
Comment Posted on February 17, 2011 at 07:27 PM by Zach K.

Gabe. Where are the articles that Mr.M told you to post???????
Comment Posted on February 17, 2011 at 07:22 PM by Zach K.

Gabe. Where are the articles that Mr.M told you to post???????
Comment Posted on February 17, 2011 at 07:22 PM by Zach K.

Yay go Mrs Bococks Class. What a great blog.
Comment Posted on June 18, 2010 at 01:49 AM by Mrs Bullock

What a fab looking bunch. Well done you guys!
Comment Posted on June 11, 2010 at 04:01 AM by Mrs Bullock

I love it! It is really good!
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yes i think that seventh grade will stink. My fave part of summer is when i take my friends on vacations. ;). 0---
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My three are math science and art. I love all of them because they are easy.
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Comment Posted on November 3, 2006 at 09:50 AM by jmbateman

My favorite subjects are Math,Science, and Computers because they are very fun!
Comment Posted on November 3, 2006 at 09:46 AM by Melani

My three are math, social studies, and science. I like them because I am great at them and they are lots of fun!:)
Comment Posted on October 29, 2006 at 02:25 PM by jmbateman

Well, one thing is I dont think that video games coordinate you or anything like that, i really think thats ridiculous. What they really do is make you more lazy, and less active. I really don't think God would like us playing violent video games.
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Comment Posted on October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM by Jeremy M

Now that this blog is officially closed for new student writing, I thought it would be good to take a look back at an important part of the last five years in the roomtwelve.com classroom: the XO Laptop.

A week ago I sent off the 31 XO Laptops from our classroom Lending Library to the Columbus School for Girls, in Columbus, Ohio. They will be used to help the students there learn about how computers work, specifics on the XO Laptop (like how they run, learning how to take them apart, and so on) - and at the end of the school year, students from the school will take them to St John in the Virgin Islands, where the next chapter of their XO Laptop lives will start.

All of the XOs in our classroom were donated to us by people who wanted their XOs to be used by kids. I've written about our experiences in:

Our XO Laptop

XOXOXO Valentine Greetings

Thank you, thank you!

Summer news

An XO Tale (a cool VoiceThread)

1:1 XO Classroom!!!

An XO Classroom.

Students have written about them many times as well, the latest in October, 2011, About the XO Laptop.

Here are two pictures I took just before boxing them up for their trip to Ohio - front and back (with their names on them - many students in our class got attached to individual XOs):

Sept 7 Update:
OLPC News just ran the story that I wrote about the long journey of the XOs in room 12, The Story of 31 XOs Sailing from Seattle to Ohio.

A few days earlier, OLPC News ran the story written by Ms. Christine Murakami, the teacher in Ohio who now has the XOs, about her wonderful program, OLPC Small Deployment - What Works for Me

I'll close with a slideshow of many (132!) pictures taken about the XO Laptops in roomtwelve.com:

Sail on, little XOs!

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment • Reads 208038

Art at Home!

Article posted August 18, 2012 at 11:40 PM GMT0 • comment • Reads 17786

Hi All, and especially students from roomtwelve.com,

I had a little fun recently, creating an art project in my backyard out of spiral tiles I had made (and saved over the years) from teaching art. Our classroom made clay tiles with spirals on them, based on "Spiral Jetty", and then we hung them together as a quilt, for the school to enjoy for a while.

Anyway, I had several of my tiles saved up from teaching the lesson for so many years, and I decided to do something with them. Click on the picture below to see a larger version:

You can see the planning process I went through by looking at these pictures. They are cemented to that wall for good! Here's how it looks from the upper deck:

I hope you are all having a great summer! - Mr. Ahlness

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment • Reads 17786

Summer Writers!

Article posted June 30, 2012 at 06:35 PM GMT0 • comment • Reads 52688

There is still a little writing left to do on this blog! Some students have parent permission to continue blogging this summer. Click on the picture below (part of the class creating slideshows of their year in room twelve) to read what's up with roomtwelve.com this summer:

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment • Reads 52688

The End of Our Blog

Article posted June 14, 2012 at 07:00 PM GMT0 • comment • Reads 32129

Well, we are finally nearing the end of the school year out here in Seattle. The last day of school is June 22nd. The students at roomtwelve.com know their blogging will end here, too. But it will be different this time, because I am retiring from teaching at the end of the school year.

In the past, students have been able to blog from home over the summer, or even continue from another classroom, with parent permission. But because I will no longer be an employee of the school district, I must close down the blog.

But wait! It's not going away!!

It will stay right here, with the thousands of articles written by the third graders in Room twelve. There just won't be any new writing going up.

One thing I will keep active over the summer though, is commenting. Visitors can leave comments on any student or teacher writing until September 1, 2012.

Many, many thanks to Mr. David Warlick, who designed and maintains classblogmeister for thousands of bloggers! Teachers and students are grateful and forever in your debt, David!

If you'd like to read what some of the current blogging class has to say about having a blog here, click on the picture below, where the kids were tallying up the total blog articles they have posted as a group this year:

Mark Ahlness

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment • Reads 32129

Changing Desks!

Article posted June 5, 2012 at 06:31 PM GMT0 • comment (1) • Reads 13128

Below is what our classroom looks like just before everybody changes desks. Click on the picture to see what the kids in roomtwelve.com have to say about it

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment (1) • Reads 13128

Field Trip!

Article posted May 29, 2012 at 12:53 AM GMT0 • comment • Reads 9405

On May 15, we took a field trip to the International District, often called Chinatown, in Seattle. If you'd like to read about our adventures, click on the picture of the dragon, below:

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment • Reads 9405

MSP Reflections

Article posted May 11, 2012 at 04:33 AM GMT0 • comment • Reads 30270

We just finished the MSP, Washington State's "Measurements of Student Progress". There were two tests, reading and math, taken two days apart. The picture below shows the sign we put outside our classroom door - and the results of a vote for the part of the test they liked best. Click on the picture to read what the students at roomtwelve.com thought about their first experience with the test.

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment • Reads 30270

New Computer Lab!

Article posted May 10, 2012 at 08:50 PM GMT0 • comment • Reads 791

Our school just got a new computer lab, and it's pretty exciting up there. Not only is it all cleaned up with new wiring, but it's full of shiny new iMacs! Click on the picture of our class below (during their first visit) to read what they thought about it all.

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment • Reads 791

Roomtwelve.com in the media

Article posted April 24, 2012 at 04:47 AM GMT0 • comment (5) • Reads 16681

I'm very proud of the work my students have posted here this year, and over the past 6 years. They have pushed the envelope, and many have worked on their writing well beyond the school day.

A few weeks ago I was invited to go down to a local TV/Radio station complex in Seattle, to help promote a grant opportunity for teachers - and classrooms interested in doing some cutting edge work with technology. So I went.

Since then, I've been broadcast on the radio, and I have been seen on TV ads for this website: centurylinkteachers.com. Here's the video:

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment (5) • Reads 16681

Earth Day, 2012

Article posted April 15, 2012 at 07:03 AM GMT0 • comment • Reads 10744

The students at roomtwelve.com have worked very hard coordinating the Earth Day Groceries Project at our school over the last three weeks.

We just delivered the school's decorated bags to Safeway. You can read about the story and see a picture of us on the West Seattle Blog here!.

They wrote down their thoughts about the experience and about Earth Day, and put them on their blogs. Click on the picture of all 369 of our school's Earth Day Grocery bags below to read what they had to say:

Article posted October 12, 2006 at 01:39 PM • comment • Reads 10744

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	•	Chelsea2
	•	Dahira
	•	Elijah
	•	Elissa
	•	Esme
	•	Ethan2
	•	Hunter
	•	Iman
	•	JaNathan
	•	Jonathan2
	•	Landyn
	•	Lincoln
	•	Lucas
	•	Mackenzie
	•	Mara
	•	Mari
	•	Mila
	•	Ryan2
	•	Samantha
	•	Shire
	•	Victoria
-	Room Twelve Alumni
	•	Abigail
	•	Adam
	•	Alex 1
	•	Alex 2
	•	Alex 3
	•	Alice
	•	Amari
	•	AnaLisa
	•	Andrea
	•	Anthony
	•	Anthony2
	•	Antoinette
	•	Arabella
	•	Ashley
	•	August
	•	Aundra
	•	Bailey
	•	Ben
	•	Blake
	•	Bob
	•	Briere
	•	Bryce
	•	Cade
	•	Carmyn
	•	Casey
	•	Casey1
	•	Casey2
	•	Chelsea
	•	Chloe
	•	Christopher
	•	Christopher
	•	Daisy
	•	Dalila
	•	Damian
	•	Danielle
	•	Daphne
	•	Delaney
	•	Diego
	•	Eilis
	•	Elias
	•	Ella
	•	Elyjah
	•	Emily
	•	Emily 2
	•	Ethan
	•	Gabe
	•	Gabrielle
	•	Gus
	•	Gwendalin
	•	Haley
	•	Hannah
	•	Hannah2
	•	Harley
	•	Hinari
	•	Isobel
	•	Jacob
	•	Jacob2
	•	Jake
	•	Javier
	•	Jaylynn
	•	Jeremiah
	•	Joey
	•	Jonathan
	•	Jose
	•	Joshua
	•	Julian
	•	Katherine
	•	Kathy
	•	Kayla
	•	Kayleigh
	•	Keean
	•	Kevin
	•	Kyra
	•	Lakota
	•	Lamarron
	•	Lauryn
	•	Liana
	•	Lillie
	•	Lindsay
	•	Logan
	•	Logan
	•	Logan2
	•	Lola
	•	Lorenzo
	•	Lul
	•	Malia
	•	Maribeth
	•	Maya
	•	Maya2
	•	Natalie
	•	Natalie2
	•	Nathan
	•	Nathaniel
	•	Nia
	•	Nicole
	•	Nolan
	•	Phung
	•	Riley1
	•	Riley2
	•	Rumi
	•	Ryan
	•	Ryder
	•	Sawyer
	•	Sayeed
	•	Sergio
	•	Shiari
	•	Siobhan
	•	Sofia
	•	Sonny
	•	Stephanie
	•	Stone
	•	Summer
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	•	Tuesday
	•	Tycho
	•	Valorie
	•	William
	•	Xabrianna
	•	Yadira
	•	Zareya

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