*During a class meeting activity, sportsmanship came up as a natural lesson...tied in great with their review of recess procedures/game rules that day.
*During 1st grade social studies they not only read about earthquakes and tsunamis, but also watched a few parts of video clips to make the topic come to life and build their background knowledge as they continued to learn about them.
*During Daily 5, some students that chose Work on Writing were writing thank you letters for their Christmas gifts. Years ago I might have seen this as non-academic, but after learning with all of our on our Daily 5 journey and from Regie Routman that students need to have choice and write for practical reasons, I now see that this is a perfect choice for students to write!*We started encouraging 4/5th graders to bring their books with them to the lunch line so they can "steal reading minutes" in their day (I learned this from The Book Whisperer). Many students were very excited about this--we had 37 one day reading in line by choice. One student told his teacher, "I love the new rule that we can bring a book to lunch. It keeps us calm and relaxed and we can read a good fit book, just like Daily 5!" (By the way, if you're curious about The Book Whisperer, I 'll be writing about in this week's Friday Focus)
Events This Week:
Monday-Visit from Kathy Schmitt, Literacy Specialist from CESA 6 (you may see her with me doing some classroom observations to see our LLI students in both regular classrooms and LLI intervention)
-Probationary Teachers meeting after school
Tuesday - Tech Committee Meeting after school. Even if you're not on the committee, we would love your input of website features. Please add to the google doc.
Friday - 5K Field Trip
Tech Tips
In case you missed last Friday's email, here is the screencast to get on google calendar to sign up for the computer lab:
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