Writer's Workshop
We officially began writer's workshop this week with a special guest. Len Cabral came and share stories with us as we kicked out our year of writing. Our first lesson in writer's workshop this week focused on generating narrative story ideas. Students thought of strong emotions like guilt and excitement to help generate a large list of ideas. We also talked about how important people, places, and things can be a sources for our story ideas as well. Some of our next lessons focused on making sure our ideas are "seed" ideas not "watermelon" ideas so that we can zoom in on them with detail and tell the story step-by-step (just like Len Cabral did).
In Reader's Workshop students learned how to use their writing journals to record their thinking about their reading through letter writing. We also talked about a strategy good readers use called questioning. Students practiced asking "thin" and "thick" questions in the book Stranger by Chris Van Allsburg and in their own reading books.
On Creative Arts Friday students engaged in an activity to practice working in groups. Students developed a list of important things to remember from last weeks challenge to use in future projects.
Math: We finished our first unit on place value. Assessment will be coming home soon.
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