Huzzah!

Make yourself at home– we welcome you! If you’re here from the Student Blogging Challenge or Quad Blogging, please say where you’re from, what you like to do, and something unique about yourself. We enjoy meeting our neighbours, be you from our school, our Valley, our country – continent – hemisphere – or many, many [...]

Tags: commenting, Quadblogging, Student Blogging Challenge

Seriously. I’m not that interesting. The action is really next door in the sidebar. Right there—> on the right—>in the sidebar. Now, you may have come here because my good friend Miss Wyatt, that knitter of student bloggers, has told you to come and leave a comment. Not that you should ignore her direction–just consider [...]

Tags: commenting, Student Blogging Challenge

Blogging is one way of connecting with people–Skype is another! Through the student blogging competition we’ve connected with Miss Wyatt in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Many of us have read and commented on her grade 6/7 class blogs. On Thursday at 2 pm our time we will meet up via Skype for a face-to-face chat. It [...]

Tags: Miss Wyatt, Skype, Student Blogging Challenge

Have you ever had a class election? Our class has. Different people had different roles in our election. There were five people running for three seats. Another role was campaign manager who helped with promoting the person running. Different parties put up signs all around the classroom and one party even had a video to [...]

Tags: election, Student Blogging Challenge

Guest Post By a Division 16 student… the Returning Officer Friday, Nov. 14 was an important date for Huzzahnia.  We held an election for our classes new council.  During the “All Candidates Meeting”, candidates delivered their speeches persuading people for their vote.  Here is an interview with one of the five candidates who’s nick-name is ”Turtle Eating Crumpet” R.O.: [...]

Tags: election, Student Blogging Challenge

As Queen of the Universe and Supreme Ruler of Huzzahnia, I declare that I will occasionally provide opportunities for direct democracy, through secret ballot or show of hands, and I may also grant some decision-making power to the directly elected class council. But it depends on how I am feeling. This is my official Toadstich [...]

Tags: election, Student Blogging Challenge

…you HAVE TO keep it! Our Class Council elections are over, and soon we will have a guest post or two about the process. Students made campaign promises–some serious, some not. One student who was elected had promised that if she was chosen, she would run around the school yelling… …and so she did!

Tags: election, Student Blogging Challenge