Kindergarten Blog

My first blog that I chose from the list of K-12 blogs was:
Kindergarten http://kdgroom102.blogspot.com/. I chose this blog because I was interested in what a kindergarten blog would look like and what kind of information it would contain. This blog exhibited various types of information about what they were learning within the classroom. I liked how this blog was setup; to me it was like a time capsule, because it started from the first day of school to various outings as a class such as McDonald’s Night, rock climbing; to what they were learning such as: how to write their numbers, learning letters and sounds, to how to keep safe while at home, and about buttons – how to sort them, count them, reading a book “Corduroy” by Don Freeman, and comparing the book to a video that they had watched. I think that this blog’s purpose was to be informational in general but was intended to inform the classes’ parents about what their child was learning within the classroom. I thought of this blog as an interactive classroom newsletter, because it has information about what they are learning and it also has videos of various activities that were taking place. This blog is constantly being used, because there are postings since the beginning of the school year to the current week to show activities that are taking place during that particular week. I think that this tool has potential both in and out of the classroom; because this is a great way that allows further instruction within the home. This blog is also a great tool for outside of the classroom because it allows "field trips" to be videotaped so that it could be a visual memory of what has happened throughout the school year, and to also show how students have evolved over time.