Mrs. W's Class Blog

Some students in Ms. Olen’s class were given a creative challenge in writing.  They had to choose a picture from Chris Van Allsburg’s Mysteries of Harris Burdick.

Robynn and Damian worked together on creating a story.  They chose the picture titled The Seven Chairs

"The Seven Chairs"

You can read what Robynn and Damian have written so far below…

The Beginning of the End

By: Robynn & Damian

Chapter 1,       Then it happened!

“Are they coming.”, Derek said. “We need to get to the roof.”. ‘NO!”said Ashley.”what sis!”, said Derek.Then Derek looked back. He saw his sister running.They finally got to the roof and saw their friend Alex. He had a huge camping bag, then he pointed at the city.They heard people screaming.”We better get going”, said Derek.

“AAHH”, said Ashley as she fell to the floor with excruciating pain.There were muscular men in suits,the suits looked the ones bee keepers use.But still it scared us.Oh sorry I didn’t say my name,my names Derek Ursula.So any way they caught up with us.Then Alex fell, I was still up and running then I got to the end of the roof. I thought either end life now or suffer for the rest of my life. Then I turned around and surrendered.

Chapter 2     The Facility

When Derek first saw them he was in shock and then the men took  his hands so he couldn’t get away. Then Ashley pointed. Derek and both the men looked then Ashley ran towards them and pulled Derek away from the two men. Then Derek had a vision. There was a lady in mid-air  and she was sitting in a chair just floating there.

To be continued…

Robynn and Damian have also created a quiz to see if you were comprehending what you read.  Take the following test!

Did you enjoy Robynn and Damian’s story?

How could they improve as writers?

Do you have any suggestions for how they might continue their story?

by Robynn, Damian, and Wyatt

This week’s challenge is about our favorites. We thought of our main thing we wanted to write about, and we all chose the topic food. So here are our favorite foods:

Robynn’s favorite:

My favorite food is cupcakes. I like it when they have lots of frosting on them. Cupcakes are so good. I love having cupcakes for birthdays. I love cupcakes!  Cupcakes are an American  birthday tradition.

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My favorite food is an egg roll. I like the inside the most. I love when they are in soy sauce. They get a little salty. I love egg rolls! They can be a party snack for Chinese new year!

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Wyatt’s favorites:

My favorite food is a turkey.I especially like them with seasoning. There good for thanks giving. It’s an American tradition. I’ve been eating turkey since I was four. I like the leg of the turkey.

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Thank you for reading about our foods that we like that are also holiday foods in different countries.

What’s your favorite holiday foods?

by Robynn, Damian, and Wyatt

For Challenge 8, we played the commenting game. Here are the instructions:

• click on a blog on the student list – count one
• now click on a blog from their blogroll – count two
• finally click on a blog from that blogroll – count three

Rushil is awesome

For the Student Blogging Challenge #4, we visited other classes on our blogroll and left them comments.

• Robynn visited 4H Waka Adventures, and left a comment on their post about their new poetry unit.

• Tina  visited Mrs. Yollis’ blog, and left a comment about their class Skyping and about Vegemite.

• Kathryn visited Mrs. Goucher’s class, and left a comment on their post about the Pueblo in the Southwest.

Where do you think we should visit next? 

by Robynn

We learned that cookies and digital footprints are like walking on the beach. Everytime you get a process on your own name or nickname, you leave a cookie or a footprint.

Our activity was to look up our name and city, and see what we can find about ourselves on Google.

Not many people found much about themselves. A few people found some cookies about all sorts of things, but many did not.

If you Google your name, what do you learn about yourself?