Our middle school (6th grade) blog focuses on reading & writing, but is also a journal of our school year events. Used as a communication w/parents and community.

Thanks,
Karla Duff
teacher6th
spottoread.blogspot.com
6th grade
USA

For this school year, I set up the following blogs for my four seventh grade language arts classes:
- A class blog – loftonclass.edublogs.org – that I use primarily for communication to students and parents.
- Four class period blogs – loftonperiod1.edublogs.org, loftonperiod2.edublogs.org, loftonperiod3.edublogs.org, and loftonperiod7.edublogs.org – one for each individual language arts class, on which a different student is the “guest blogger” of the day and reports about what we have done during class that day.
- Individual blogs for each student, in which the students write on assigned topics and can also write optional postings.

The class blog has links to the four class period blogs, and the class period blogs all have links to the individual student blogs.

My students are 12-13 years old, and we are located in Agoura Hills, California, USA, near Los Angeles. To maintain maximum student privacy in the blogs, the students all have “screen names” for their user names and blog names.

I don’t edit the work on the class period blogs or individual student blogs before they publish. One of the things that I fret about is that students aren’t careful enough about proofing their work before publishing, and there are many mechanical errors in the postings. My hope is that they will learn during the year and have less errors as we practice good writing and blogging.

Jane Lofton
7th grade language arts teacher
U.S.A.
http:loftonclass.edublogs.org

Our blog, SCC English, is from the English Department of an Irish secondary school (ages 11 to 18), and posts lots of poetry and other writing by our pupils, as well as other material.

Hi Sue,
1. “An American Studies”: http://www.anamericanstudies.com
2. Features links to ~40 secondary students’ blogs, student age = 16-17
3. American Studies = US History and Literature integrated in a 2 -period class
4. USA

The blog listed above is run by an American History teacher and an English teacher. It serves as a model for the student blogs linked to in the right hand column under the heading, “An American Blogs”.

Hi Sue,
Thanks for this opportunity. we all learn from each other so to be able to see the other class blogs is such a great chance.
These are my class blogs: for year 11 http://www.grade11fld.edublogs.org/
for year 10 http://www.grade10fld.edublogs.org/

1. Study Skills Blog http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=56473
2. 7th grade, ages 11-13, considered middle school in USA. (primary PreK-12 school)
3. Study Skills
4. USA

Always in pursuit of excellence, from Los Alamitos California, this edublog is a great addition to my paperless English classroom. I teach AP Language & Composition (juniors ages 16-17) and Modern Literature (seniors 16-18). Our blog is a virtual repository for lectures, resources, quizzes, homework study aids, and weekly updates. My students are used to coming into class and logging into their Ruby (antiquated imacs), and settling into the lesson of the day, handouts or ppnts are included in my link section with work for the day and away we go… For students absent, physically or mentally on any given day a student section called “Duly Noted” is provided; it is a student’s account of the events that took place in class on that specific day (each student is secretly assigned a “ghostwriter date” and sends in a report on their respective day-homework credit is given for work completed). Come by and visit, there is always something going on….

http://dbrosius.edublogs.org/

I use the blog to publish small texts that students write along with the curriculum; our class is English as a Foreign Language.

They are in secondary and they are from 12 to 15 years old.

First Grade: http://publishingcorner.edublogs.org/

Third Grade: http://thirdonthewall.edublogs.org/ (this one needs to be updated) and this year I’m trying new motivation.

Hi Sue,

Happy New Year!

My class blogs about our daily activities. It is a first grade class, (6-7 year olds) in Southern California.

Thanks for this list.

Susan Levy

Adding the Holocaust Literature blog…

1. Holocaust Literature, http://thsholocaustlit.edublogs.org/
2. Secondary, approx. 16-18 years of age
3. Literature, History
4. United States

Hi
My class blog is designed to be used with Junior Primary classes and is primarily for organising learning resources to support our current learning. A secondary, but very important, use is to promote home – school communication.

Learning Together
http://hlong.edublogs.org/
5-8 year olds
Australia

OOps. We are called Miss T’s Classroom.
http://mistea.edublogs.org

Hi,
I’m a Y6 Language Arts Teacher. My students are 11-12 years old. I have implemented my blog to enhance students’ learning process as they post comments and reflections. In this way, they are developing communication skills beyond the classroom walls. This blog helps them reflect upon their opinions, feelings and interests. Students comment on the posts allowing me to gain insight to how my students are feeling and thinking. I believe that teachers’ blogs model future class blogs and students’ personal blogs.
From Buenos Aires, Argentina

Blog: http://yearsixale.blogspot.com

Thank you
Miss Ale

Sue,
Could you please add my blog to the list of class blogs.
Thanks!
ddtanner

Get a CLUE
http://ddtanner.edublogs.org/
6-12 year olds
Primary Grades 1-5
Gifted Education
USA

@Miss T, I apologise, made a mess! Bloggers from New Zealand.

new class blog:

Room 9, Raumati Beach School, NZ
http://room9rbs.blogspot.com/
Year 5 (9-10 year olds)
Primary School

Sedgwick Middle School
West Hartford, CT 06107

Pamela Matway is a 6th grade social studies teacher and she runs a very active blog: blog.whps.org/mack

and one of our older English teachers has suddenly developed a passion for blogging: blog.whps.org/thine (check out his student book chat)

My job is to support my teachers in their blogging lives! I love it!

submitted by
Shannon McNeice
Library Media Specialist
Sedgwick Middle School
West Hartford, CT

Our Class Blog is still evolving – it serves a 7th grade class that I co-teach. I am the English/History teacher and my partner teaches Math/Science.

Our class blog: https://liechtysharks.org (Room 200 Bloggers)

Our class blog, a class of kindergarten, is Bloguefolio in http://blogue-folio.blogspot.com

Class Blog – Dare to Care – An online e-literary magazine
We are hoping to share our writings with family, friends, and other students around the world.
Check out the individual student’s links on the left side.
7-8th graders
English class
USA

We are a 6th grade team of about 125 students near Raleigh North Carolina. I’m still getting all the kids online, but I teach Language Arts so they all will be required to do some writing about their reading. They’ll also have pages about things that interest them. I’d love to have students from all over comment to us; if you are interested in having some kind of e-pal relationship this year, I’m listening! (My students are mostly 12 years old, from middle (and upper middle) class backgrounds, many Asian/Indian students).

Mr. Brovont’s Science Blog http://gbrovont.edublogs.org/
6th Grade Middle School students
Science
United States

Hi Sue

This blog is to be used by four Year 6 classes in Victoria, Australia. (Primary School, age 12/13yrs)
http://blogs.tps.vic.edu.au/ourspace2010/
Posts will be about current affairs and school based activities.
Cheers,
Jennyann

Hi Sue
Our class blog is still a work in progress and will be used as a communication tool for a Reception Class, Willunga Primary School in South Australia
I tried a web site last year and had so much positive feedback from parents that I had to have one this year. So with lots of help from my schools ICT coordinator, (thankyou Ali) I have moved to Edublogs. I must admit I am very excited about all the things it can do!

Leanne Crockford

This is such a great blog Sue. Full of great stuff.

Our school’s blogs aren’t on the list, and I would really like you to add them.

Chorlton Park Primary School, UK
(Primary)

You can access each yeargroup’s blog here:
http://www.chorltonpark.manchester.sch.uk/

I also have a personal blog which I use to help develop practice in Primary Schools. You can see it here:
http://jacksloan.creativeblogs.net/

Thanks again,
Jack Sloan

Hi there,

We would love to be included on this list! We are really excited to view other classroom’s blogs and to have other people view and comment on ours! We are a grade 3 (8-9 years) class in Alberta, Canada. Our blog is used to highlight our writing and artwork. We also share some information about other subject areas and the general happenings of our classroom. Please visit us!

http://sletendre.edublogs.org/

1. Mr. Moore’s Class Blog
http://mrmoores.edublogs.org
2. 11 – 13 year old secondary students (6th, 7th & 8th grades)
3. technology (Web 2.0)
4. U.S.A.

Spanish
Grades 3-5
Whitaker Elementary School
Winston-Salem, NC, United States

Our blog is used to show what we do in Spanish class and to talk about our experiences both in class and in the community with learning Spanish. We also share our experiences about traveling to other countries.

My blog Head Outta the Book is for my five high school English classes (three tenth grade honors and two AP Lit and Comp). It’s a transposition of the type of work we’ve been doing in class only in blog form, but I’ve also had all of my students start their own blogs, linked to my blog, where they post their work and respond to each other. We’ve just started, but the enthusiasm is high.
http://deborahharris.edublogs.org/

My blog is for my tenth grade honors English classes and my AP Lit and Comp classes. My students have all created their own blogs, which are linked to mine, and all are a way of transposing the analysis and discussion we’ve already been doing in class into a more creative and broader forum. Enthusiasm runs high as we are just getting started.

Head Outta the Book
http://deborahharris.edublogs.org/
10-12 grade
Upstate NY, USA

Our 6th graders have all been involved in a great persuasive writing project in their literacy classes. They wrote persuasive paragraphs about a variety of controversial topics and have posted them to blogs. One of the reasons we chose blogging as a writing platform is because it allows them to publish for a real world audience and receive feedback from the blog readers. They would love to have you (or your students) read their posts and make comments.

You can find all 7 blogs at http://east.mesa.k12.co.us/library/persuasivewritingblogs.htm

Topics addressed are:

Access Denied – internet filtering at school
Creature Feature – animal rights
Game Zone – video game violence
On the Brink – endangered animals
Out to Lunch – school lunches
Phone It In – cell phones in schools
Trash Talk – recycling

Grade Level: 6th (11 and 12 yrs old) Middle School
Subject: Language Arts
Country: Colorado, USA

HI, (sorry for the repeat, but my link was not obvious)

I am blogging for the first time and doing it with my class!
We are Grade 4/5 (10 – 11 yo) from Tasmania (Australia).

I am excited about the year ahead, and plan to join in with the blogging challenges if possible.
Tameika Grist

Please join our journey:
http://grist.edublogs.org/

Sorry the blog address wasn’t obvious as I linked it with my username. (sorry, still learning)

Please join our journey:

http://grist.edublogs.org/

I’ve started a blog for our after school program: Project L.E.A.D.
The students are 6th-8th graders, from Lauderdale Middle School. We’ve been posting technology tools and media tools to experiment with. We were planning to do some research on earthquakes since we are located on the New Madrid fault in West Tennessee, USA. The recent quake in Haiti has added another dimension to our research. Please join us at Project LEAD – Let Each Achieve Daily, and let us know you’ve been there.
http://lmsprojectlead.wordpress.com/

Please add our classroom blog to your class list. Initially, I created it for my gifted classes of third to sixth grade students as a provision of challenges. It has evolved into a continuously compilation of our classroom interests, events, and projects. The Blogroll has been utilized as a central location for research/challenges throughout our class and their regular education classes. Our district technology supervisor demonstrates our classroom blog in her technology classes as an example of how a blog is being used locally. It is also used as parental communication for those with Internet access. We have included a digital photo “Around School” scavenger hunt page, photos of birds at our classroom feeders, gardening projects, and student-created birding videos for the Great Backyard Bird Count. Debbie Dumais, Gifted Specialist, Fultondale Elementary School, Fultondale, Alabama
http://fesrlc.edublogs.org/

27 pupils
and
julie gordon, teacher
at

http://craighillps.edublogs.org/

This is our Primary 6 class blog (9 and 10 year olds), primarily used as a home/school link to share pupils’ work and photos with family and friends all around the globe. Topic work includes: The History of Rock and Roll, Mary Queen of Scots, Medieval Scotland, Bridge Building and writing–among other things. This is a new initiative for us, so we are learning as we go.

I just started moving this over, but
http://brandimartin.edublogs.org/
is my school blog for my HS art room. We do digital photo, computer art, web design, animation, AP 2D design, letterpress and screen press printing.

We’re located in Aurora IL

OOps
forgot to put in address etc

Year 2 (6-8 year olds)
Brisbane, Australia
2rshiningstars.blogspot.com

Wendy Randall

Primary School
Yr 2/3 (7 & 8 yr olds)
*Interactive whiteboard activities
*Maths
*Literacy

Blog discussions on current topics.

Brisbane, Australia

(Interest in Gifted Ed)

Jan

Hi,
we have just started a new ENHANCED PROVISION blog. School children in the EP department of a mainstream Primary School present themselves to the world, just as they are: dreams, pictures, stories, opinions, comments. All the material is by the children themselves, including photos and pictures.

This is a real fun site.

Richard.

The Smarties http://thesmarties2.blogspot.com/
A blog about a Year 2 (aged 6-7) classroom, summarising our days and displaying student work, with links to our various international projects as they develop.
Western Australia.

Our blog is designed to highlight student learning in our Integrated Learning Lab. We are a public elementary magent school (grades PreK-5) with the magnet themes of science, mathematics, and communications. Our goal this year was to increase our use of technology to better integrate our communication strand into our science and math strands.

I am the resrouce teacher in the iLab and a blog newbie. So far, I have created pages for every grade level and for special programs throughout our school. I’m hoping to move towards a more interactive experience as I become more familiar with all of the options possible. I really enjoy perusing other elementary blogs to get ideas – thanks for this forum.

Deidre
http://luthervilleilab.edublogs.org/
grades Prek-5
Maryland, USA

Year 7/8 class from New Zealand. Blog created to share our classroom with family and friends

Hi,

This is my EFL writing class blog, “English for Peace”, where Japanese students (university students around 19 and 20 years old) are waiting to exchange opinions about peace issues, etc. in English with people from different countries.

http://tamiko.edublogs.org/

On the right margin, there are topics, including social issues in Japan. I’d appreciate your comments!
Thank you. Arigatoo!

Tamiko
Tokyo, Japan

Sorry I forgot to add our blog: http://www.angliakids.edublogs.org

Thanks!!!

Hi there!

I have a Grade 2 class (primary level) this year at Leopold Primary School in Geelong, Australia. They are 7/8 year year olds. I have loved introducing them to the blogging world! They are so keen and interested and love sharing the blog with their families. We are only 3 weeks into our school year but I would love to build a global audience through our blog. I team teach with Kathleen McGeady who you often feature here on your site, she has been a great support in helping me develop my blogging skills. Our blog will cover all curriculum areas, particularly Literacy and Numeracy, and also our Integrated topics (which this term is Food).

Our blog is titled 2KJ at Leopold Primary School and the URL is…
http://2kjblog.globalstudent.org.au/

Thank you!

Our class blog name is: The Blog
URL: http://www.shaunaworden.edublogs.org
Student Age: 9-11 year olds in secondary
Focus: Language Arts, maybe some Math

Thanks,
Shauna Worden

Hi There!

Our clas blog is called “Adventures with Miss B”
Student Age: 9-12
Grades: 5 and 6
Location: Sydney, Australia
URL is: http://missbeavis.edublogs.org/

Thanks!

Hi again,

Based on my enthusiasm for starting a class blog this year I have pioneered a “media team” for my whole primary school. This is a team of 13 students who are each responsible for blogging on behalf of one of the primary classes on a “Primary Media Blog”. (As I’m the only teacher blogging with my class at this stage, it gives parents of all students an opportunity to see into their child’s world from a different perspective).

The students who are contributing are from Grade 5 and 6 from our primary school in Tasmania, Australia.
http://lcsprimarymedia.edublogs.org/

Cheers,
Tameika Grist

@Sue Waters,
Thanks Sue,
I will be glad to take you up on this in a couple of months.
The team come out of class once a week to give them time to blog on behalf of their class, and we are into our third session this week. –
I think the momentum is there, however, as I’ve been asked to run a PL session with our High School Staff about my blogging projects. (Basically stumbling through the dark actually) – but learning constantly.
Tameika

Mrs. Watson’s Room 102
Grades 11-12, US History and AP Human Geography

This is my first year using a class blog. I use it a bit to post class information, but more to give them practice responding to current event issues and our class topics.

Hi Everyone,
This blog is a collaborative one between a Year 3 class in Western Australia and a Year 3 class in New Jersey. We’re having lots of fun with it!
http://yorkfl.edublogs.org/

My students in 8th grade are learning to become global writers. They selected a topic/theme that they were passionate about. They are eager to become noticed by the world. Linking my site to your site will help them connect to other writers around the world. Happy Blogging!
http://rumfordwriters.edublogs.orgx

@mlewis145, I found some wonderful ideas on your page!
Thank you….

Class Name: TCE Health Studies
Blog URL: http://healthstudies.edublogs.org/
Age of students: Senior Secondary, Year 11-12 (16-18yo)
Subject Area: Health – student discussion of current health issues.
Country: Tasmania, Australia

Hello, my name is Eva Suárez and I’ve been working with my class blog for two years. I work in a Languages School in the Canary Islands, Spain. In my school with teach EFL for adult students. I leave you the details now:

Blog name: English in Guía – Nivel Intermedio
url: http://englishinguiaintermedio.wordpress.com
number of students: 25
ages: 17-35
country: Spain

Thank you in advance for this opportunity.

Eva

Hello, we are a group of Grade 5 and 6 students living in Northern Tasmania (Australia) who have just started using blogging in our classroom.

We would love to be added to the class blog list and receive comments from all over the world.

Room 001
http://alamb.edublogs.org/
Grade 5 & 6 Students
Australia

@tamiko, Hello, I run a blog with some students at Shantou University in China. There are also some teachers who use my blog for their classes. I think an exchange with Chinese students and Japanese university students would be enlightening for both!

I like your blog! I also used to work in Japan.

Onigaishimasu!
Josh

Hi…we are a Grade 7 class that has been blogging for the past month. We began with each student selecting a personal passion and selecting 5 different avenues to explore that passion…via research and opinion. We would love to have some guests visit our blogs and hopefully we can do the same by visiting your blogs as well.
Our student blogs cover topics from movies to photography to parkour…(that crazy sport where people run up the side of buildings and stuff…).
Hope to you see you soon!
check us out at http://bit.ly/div1blogs
student blogs on the right side!

This blog is by 4th and 5th grade students who are reporting on the activities and events happening at their elementary school in Massachusetts, U.S.A. They meet once a week with myself, teacher-librarian, to decide what to report, how to report this information, and assess how their choses worked. This is our first year with a Blog and we are experimenting with different forms of media.

We hope you enjoy our Blog.

Cheryl Caskie Chase, MLS
Teacher Librarian
Dover, MA 02030 U.S.A.

My main reason for using a blog for my Year 8 Mathematics class (13/14 year olds) was to give them some experience of how technology can be used to support them in their classroom. They are each getting a laptop next year and past experience has shown that the majority of students receiving this technology have no idea how it can be used in an educational environment.

We are also using the blog as a way of communicating with students’ families and launching and discussing ideas for enrichment projects and classwork.

Thanks for reading and thanks for the opportunity

Ian Woods
Maths Teacher
Shoalhaven High School
Nowra, NSW
Australia

My class blog is for a group of 4 third and fourth grade classes at my school.
We are at http://horn34.edublogs.org

I just started my classroom blog. I teach third grade in a small (85 kids), rural school in Midwest America. I wanted to start a blog to serve as a way to communicate, connect, and collaborate with students, parents, and other classrooms around the world. My immediate goal is to maintain communication with my students over the summer. I hope to provide them with various links to keep their reading skills and math skills up to par over the long summer break. I also hope to have some online book discussions over the summer.

I and my partner Meltem are currently teaching Intermediate level students (aged between 17-19) at The School of Languages,Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey.

We use our class blog ( http://sec4.edublogs.org/) as an e-folder to keep their written and oral work. We open posts,students leave their comments; we give feedback to their entries and they edit their work. They also read each other’s work and leave comments. They also use “podomatic” and “voicethread” to record their oral work on certain tasks and concepts: We also keep them in our blog.

We would like to work with other prep classes from different universities/colleges all
around the world and share our work with others.

We are a year 6 class of over 60 students and this is our second year with edublogs. We are from Merrlands East Public school and we use this blog to communicate with parents, display work, record images, sounds and movies and use it as a publishing tool to diaplay all our programs and activities that we are a part of. We would love to have a buddy class to work with and are keen to work with anyone anywhere.

Hi,
I’m a first grade teacher from Shanghai American School in China.
I started my blog because the school made me – as a communication tool for parents, but I love it and I try to make it be so much more. I think of it as a place where I can share our learning with the world. I can’t wait to check out some of the other classrooms on the list. Thanks for putting it all together.

My blog is called Mrs Hossack’s First Graders.
I teach first grade in Shanghai, China to expatriate students from around the world.
http://teachers.saschina.org/ahossack/

Cheers,
Amy

Hi Everyone,
I teach the Opportunity Class (year 5 and 6 gifted and talented students) at Soldiers Point Public School, NSW, Australia.

Our class blog (41 Weeks with 5/6C) shares learning experiences from each week at school. Our blog is a tool for sharing learning with students, teachers and families in our community while also teaching the kids all about using technology.

Thanks,
Amy Cliff
56cliff
56cliff.edublogs.org
Year 5 and 6
Australia

Our blog address is mrsjessicawhite.edublogs.org. This is a brand new blog I set up for a new class at a new school…4th grade, ages 9-10. I plan on using this blog for a variety of purposes, and I am excited to teach my students about blogging.

Hi, our class blog address is http://leakeysblog.edublogs.org/. We are a Year 2/3 class (6-8 year olds) from Palmerston North New Zealand. The blog will be a general class blog for a variety of uses.
Sarah.

Here’s my edublogs site for Science
Haven’t seen any secondary Science pages yet.

Hi:
We are a 5-6 grade humanities class who want comments on our first attempt at blogging. We are also looking for a 6th grade class to Skype with in September . We’d love to get in touch with any class who will be reading Bone From a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson in September to share a wikki.
We are in upstate NY

Thanks Shirley

Hi, we are a year 6 class from the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. We have over 65 students in a team teaching environment and utilise technology in all areas of our program. We use the blog to communicate with parents, publish work, homework, notes, excursions…….basically everything. We see it as a way bringing the classroom to the parents – we even have them commenting on their lunch breaks. We have numerous blogs allocated to student clubs and units of work, and most are updated and maintained by our students. We would love to link up with other classes somewhere in the world and look forward to hearing from you

shacklebyrds2010.edublogs.org

Hi there,

I have been running a classroom blog for year 3/4 ( 7 and 8 year olds)

The blog is used to show the community what is happening in our classroom

We are room 2 at Burnham School Primary School, New Zealand.

http://burnhamrm2.blogspot.com/

We would love to be put onto blog

Thanks
Room 2 + Mr Thurlow

Hi
Our class blog address is http://anacristinafrei.blogspot.com/.
My students are 10-11 year olds, from Portugal.
The blog is a general class blog for a variety of uses.It was used primarily for a Language Arts class.Then is a tool for sharing works with students, teachers and families in our community while also teaching the kids somethings about using technology.
thanks for sharing
Cristina Ferreira

We are a 6th grade humanities class studying Anthropology and Ancient Greece this year. We love to blog and would like to have comments and suggestions from students around the world. Please share your blogs with us.