Thanksgiving Menus = Purposeful Writing!
Students wrote Thanksgiving day menus and then created their meal on paper plates! It was a great opportunity to practice using all of our writing tools to sound out words!
Daily 5 In Action!
Small Group Literacy Activity!
(Sight word focus)
Word Work!
(Isolating prominent sounds)
Word Work!
(Word Families)
Read to Someone!
Work on Writing!
(Book Publishing)
Work on Writing!
(Stretching out words to hear/record prominent sounds)
Work on Writing!
(Creating "WOW" pictures and planning out a story)
Listen/Respond to Reading!
Read to Self!
Guided Reading Group!
I have introduced the concept of WRITING PARTNERS. Before conferencing with me, students need to conference with a writing partner. They are learning how to work as a team to support each other and give helpful feedback about their writing. After they are done working on a piece, they follow the T.A.G. procedure with their partner: T - Tell what you liked, A - Ask a question, G - Give a suggestion. We will continue to model and practice this great strategy for making our best work EVEN BETTER!
Our Writers' SHARE CIRCLE!
Writers go around to each team member's story and give a compliment.
Our WOW WRITERS book-line where we hang and proudly display our work.
We began Book Publishing last week where students made a title, dedication page and started their stories. We are working on creating stories with interesting characters, a setting and a beginning, middle and end. An adult records the words so authors can focus on the art of storytelling! We are LOVING every minute of it! A big THANK YOU to our patient publishers!
"I'm Thankful" Turkeys!
Creative Turkeys!
Math: Sequencing "Tricky Teen" turkeys!
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MATH: The "Tricky Teens" won't trick us!
Playing, "Roll and Write" (teens) with a partner!
SCIENCE: What do meteorologists do and what is a forecast?
Meteorologists discussing their forecasts for the upcoming days.
WHO LET THE TURKEYS OUT?!
