Comments 4 Kids #1, #2, & #3

My first comments4kids assignment was on Jonathan R.'s blog in Ms. Naugle's class. Jonathan is a fourth grade student in New Orleans, LA. In his recent post he created a math word problem for his blog. He then posted a visual picture to help his readers answer his question. I answered Jonathan's question and encouraged him to share it with his classmates. I told him that he did a very good job illustrating his problem. Below is the photo that Jonathan shared in his blog:

My second comment was on another student in Ms. Naugle's class, Dairon D.'s blog. Dairon's post is about benchmark fractions. Dairon gives us a math word problem illustrated with pizza slices. He also goes on to add an additional photo showing us how benchmark fractions can be broken down. I let Dairon know that he did a really good job and I really liked the pictures he added to his blog. I told him to keep up the good work! This is the photo Dairon posted with the question
What is the fraction of pieces shaded?

The last student I was assigned for this section is a little girl in a classroom in New Zealand. This is a "year 5" class of 8 and 9 year old's. This school just returned on the 7th of this month from what we would consider "summer break". Because of that they have just moved up in classes and the student I was assigned to, Mya, has only done one post showing a picture of herself as an introduction. I think it is really amazing what this school is doing with blogging, emailing, and Google Docs. I let Mya know that I checked out her blog from last year out and encouraged her to keep up the good work this school year.