4th grade Authors meet their    Virtual  Audience for a day of  "Mystery".

 Written  by    Brooke & Ashley
4th  graders from  Dublin Elementary
 
The 4th graders  in Mrs. Schulz's class are working on a mystery  for a web site. Mr. John  Ost helped  the kids on the     computer  to  get  the idea  to make the story seem like a real story. He lives in Massachusetts. and has helped them write through online   chats.  You can see the mystery in process at: 

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Kidwriters/Mystery/Maryland/index.htm
 

  On Friday, April 17th, the   4th graders in Mrs. Schulz's class  converted  the Dublin Elementary  School library into a WORLD  WIDE  WEB. 

The first  center was the math center. 
In the math center,   they  had to write math word problems with fractions for the story. 

The second  center  was the writer's center. 
Mr. John  Ost was their  author.  They also chatted with  Ms.  Hanne Bentzen, a teacher from Denmark, who was also online. Her class in Denmark are co-authors of the mystery. 
 
 
 
 

 The  third  center was the science center .  In that center they were writing  messages  with chemicals. The children enjoyed  using the chemicals. 

The fourth center  invited  visitors from  around  the world to join  them online.  They also liked to talk to the people  around the world . They said the people were very nice on the computer. They used   a map to find the country  where the people lived on the chat line. They said  lots of cool things on the chat line. 

The fifth center was the social studies center. They  were  building background information about  Annapolis which is the setting of our story. 

The sixth  center was  the communicator.center.  We sent   e-mail messages  to Denmark's  students. 
The student's from Denmark  sent  email back to Mrs. Schulz 's  class. 

The  4th graders did all this on Friday   the 17th  of Apirl.  They complete the center 
in the library . 
 

  They thanked  Mr. John  Ost, Mrs. Schulz, Mrs. Schmidt and 4th grade students. 
Submitted to Just Us Kids for publication. Pictures to be added soon.
 
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