Leave nothing to chance!

Last year a student in Division 16 looked up the meaning of random for us: it means lacking a plan or depending on chance. But in blogging it’s not wise to rely on chance to keep your identity safe. Take a look at my random facts below. In combination, they tell a lot about my life, but those facts don’t identify who I am, precisely where I live, when and where I do activities, or give that information about my friends or family.

So here are my 7 Random Facts:

1. I am the eldest daughter of an eldest daughter of an eldest daughter (and my only daughter is also the eldest!)
2. I love to make quilts.
3. I have sailed around the world in a tall ship.
4. I didn’t have any pets as a child, but now we have two Golden Retrievers named Luke and Solo.
5. My favourite place in the world is Fernando de Noronha, an island off Brazil.
6. I repeated Grade One, and didn’t learn to read until Grade Three.
7. I can say “Your baby is beautiful!” in Swahili.

Your task:

Look at the random facts of these students  Sophie, Daniel W., and Haley. They have used a numbered list to organize their posts.

Write your own Seven Random Facts. As you write your own, think about covering a broad range of facts that your close friends and family would know about, but that don’t give away too much about you.You are writing a quality post, so proofread and get a second pair of eyes to review your work.

Finally…

After you have written and posted yours, visit and comment on the 7 Random Facts of other Division 4 bloggers: notice surprises and connections–I bet you’ll find other bloggers whose random facts are similar to your own!

Image: Seven about to happen three different ways by fd  Creative Commons license

And like all new things, we will be a bit wobbly for a while.

You’ll notice student blogs are popping up in our blogroll to the right. These are exciting times for Division 4! In the next week, students will give their blogs a name and a tagline, add a Clustrmap, and write their first posts. Some may even start their own blogrolls.

Right now all the blogs have the same theme, but this will change. Once students have grown some serious feathers, they will be ready to fly! (Yes, I know chickens can’t fly–but bloggers can!)

Come back soon to see how we have grown.

Maybe you noticed that yesterday, shortly after 5 pm, we tripped into a new season. It was a remarkably beautiful day here yesterday, and today promises to be sparkling, too. Perfect for a Shoreline Cleanup.

Here are the results of our survey.

We had a lot of folks drop by to leave their opinion from beyond our class, including former students, parents, and visitors from far away. Are you surprised by the results? What do you notice? If we did this survey in November, what do you think the results might be?

We contribute.

I mean that in two ways.

We contribute to the problem.

And we contribute to the solution.

Our class and school will be heading to the beach this week to gather garbage left there or washed ashore.

Huzzahnians, how do you think you contribute? Is there a problem? If so, what might be the solution? What advice do you have for people in our community and elsewhere?

Image: Shoreline Splendor by Chicago Man

I like to start the day with something sunny.

For me, that’s a soft boiled egg in a cheery egg cup. I like to have fruit, too–this time of year there are plenty to chose from, and I have been choosing blueberries these days. Sometimes I have whole wheat toast or a bagel with cream cheese as well. I find this type of breakfast gives me the right amount of energy to get through the morning, and besides, it’s delicious!

How about you? What do you like for breakfast?

Image: Eggcup colours by Audringje

Well, gosh. How embarrassing.

Albert is very complimentary, and yes, I did have to fill in for him on short notice, but I am blushing a wee bit. He is much better at Scrabble than I am, and he never loses his keys.

I’m new here.

Well, new to this school, not new to this blog. As you can see, the Huzzahnian grads–now in Grade 7–were blogging all of last year. Feel free to take a peek at what they did, as well as what is on this, the class blog. With any luck, you’ll have a blog of your own in the next month or so.

Looking forward to meeting you!