In the past few weeks we have been doing lots of exciting things! This week we did our teacher
interviews. Each of us picked a teacher and then asked then 5-6 interview questions. During that time
we also talked about body language, eye contact, and speaking clearly and slowly. After that we watched
our interview questions and graded each other. Then we wrote thank-you letters to the teacher that we
interviewed and delivered them. After our teacher interviews we continued our novel and added
Bixbyisms and added to our character portraits. We also did discussion questions for the chapters we
read and a plot summary of the characters adventures. We had so much fun! See you next week.
interviews. Each of us picked a teacher and then asked then 5-6 interview questions. During that time
we also talked about body language, eye contact, and speaking clearly and slowly. After that we watched
our interview questions and graded each other. Then we wrote thank-you letters to the teacher that we
interviewed and delivered them. After our teacher interviews we continued our novel and added
Bixbyisms and added to our character portraits. We also did discussion questions for the chapters we
read and a plot summary of the characters adventures. We had so much fun! See you next week.
Lauren Punke
This week in Mrs. Burbridge’s group we did so many fun things. We finished our teacher interviews and
continued our novel. In the teacher interviews we came up with questions to ask different teachers. I interviewed
Mrs. Hayen. In the interview I asked questions like, "How long have you been a teacher?" In our book we had a lot
of new and exciting things, such as how the characters had to get some wine for their teacher and then a man stole
all of their money. After the man stole their money the boys started to chase him down the street, but they didn’t
catch him because one of the boys couldn’t keep going, one of them tried to jump over a tipped garbage can and
tripped, and the last one came back for the two of them. When we worked on the teacher interviews we worked on
body language such as eye contact, speaking clearly, slowly, generated questions, and then we did self-assessment
and peer-assessment. We did write thank-you letters to the teachers we interviewed. We did(as always) student led
discussions.
continued our novel. In the teacher interviews we came up with questions to ask different teachers. I interviewed
Mrs. Hayen. In the interview I asked questions like, "How long have you been a teacher?" In our book we had a lot
of new and exciting things, such as how the characters had to get some wine for their teacher and then a man stole
all of their money. After the man stole their money the boys started to chase him down the street, but they didn’t
catch him because one of the boys couldn’t keep going, one of them tried to jump over a tipped garbage can and
tripped, and the last one came back for the two of them. When we worked on the teacher interviews we worked on
body language such as eye contact, speaking clearly, slowly, generated questions, and then we did self-assessment
and peer-assessment. We did write thank-you letters to the teachers we interviewed. We did(as always) student led
discussions.
Ashton
Hi, the past weeks in Mrs. Burbridge’s class we mostly focused on teacher
interviews. We all had to come up with discussion questions and then
pick a teacher we wanted to interview. I picked Mrs Wisdom as my
teacher to interview. I learned about her things I didn’t know like that she
got in a skydiving accident and hurt her back. She was ok after that
though. We really were also focusing on our body language, eye
contact, speaking clearly, and slowly. That was actually a challenge to
keep all that together perfectly. We also had to make our discussion
questions and stay on topic. After everybody did their interviews we
rated or scored each other. We had a key that went from zero to a check
plus mark. We had to watch the video while doing that to remember
what happened. We also rated ourselves. We discovered that our
classmates thought we did better than we thought we did. When we
finished we wrote them thank you letters. We also continued reading our
book. Our story took a wild turn. They wanted to by a bottle of wine
for their teacher. They couldn’t get in without an adult. So they asked a
random person to go in their with them and then he took their money.
Then one of the boys looked his name up and he was a famous robber
and murderer. So our class is wondering IS THAT TRUE? Well that was
our week. I hope you had as good of a week as we did. Visit back
next week.
Sincerely,
Lexi
