OK, it's taken me a while but finally I have decided what to do....
I shall create a class blog for Y3 in which they will be the authors. To start with I am going to restrict access to Y3 and their parents. I would really love it to be their blog and not mine - ie posting about what they have done.
So, I am going to create one, ask permission from parents and explain why I would love to do this and that I think it'll work brilliantly if we all buy into it - ie WW2, online 'diary' versus WW2 one sort of thing. WW2 is our massive topic for all of the Spring term.
I then plan on adding all the children as authors using their VLE email addresses and hopefully all parents too, I reckon the blog will work best if both parents and children buy into it.
Every week/day?...not sure but will find out as life goes on!...I plan on having the children write a blog about what they have learnt about WW2 and how they feel about what they have learnt.
When we learn about evacuees I'd like them to become evacuees as they blog about their journey, new life, feelings etc
When we start to write diaries when we learn about Anne Frank I'd like to start a 'fictional diary' about what children in Y3 might have done that day if they had been in her position.
I hope that this will really make them think about what it must have been like for children in WW2 and for Anne Frank...
More about this exciting plan - at least to me! - as it progresses...
I shall create a class blog for Y3 in which they will be the authors. To start with I am going to restrict access to Y3 and their parents. I would really love it to be their blog and not mine - ie posting about what they have done.
So, I am going to create one, ask permission from parents and explain why I would love to do this and that I think it'll work brilliantly if we all buy into it - ie WW2, online 'diary' versus WW2 one sort of thing. WW2 is our massive topic for all of the Spring term.
I then plan on adding all the children as authors using their VLE email addresses and hopefully all parents too, I reckon the blog will work best if both parents and children buy into it.
Every week/day?...not sure but will find out as life goes on!...I plan on having the children write a blog about what they have learnt about WW2 and how they feel about what they have learnt.
When we learn about evacuees I'd like them to become evacuees as they blog about their journey, new life, feelings etc
When we start to write diaries when we learn about Anne Frank I'd like to start a 'fictional diary' about what children in Y3 might have done that day if they had been in her position.
I hope that this will really make them think about what it must have been like for children in WW2 and for Anne Frank...
More about this exciting plan - at least to me! - as it progresses...
I can't wait to hear the results of this, very interesting. Good luck.
Thank you and will let you know in due course!