poetry

Another great week…time is flying! I have so much to cover with my students and so little time to get it all done. I am moving on to time after the spring break. I found some really great activities and sites to do/use for meeting the needs of the many levels that I have in my classroom, as far as math goes. The links are below.








I am thinking that I will need to spend a couple of extra weeks with NF reading. Kids are struggling with pulling out the "Big Ideas" and supporting it with text evidence. I think they just need practice…constant practice.

We worked a little bit with poetry writing this week. Shared some reading of Jack Prelutsky's work. They love his work…such kid friendly and enticing topics for all. I also let the kids dive into Dr. Suess for a workshop. They were able to use the mentor to write a parallel piece. They came up with some pretty interesting things.
For a writing sample for this week I asked the kids to think about what they would do if it were a "Cold rainy day" and write a poem using The Cat in the Hat as a mentor. I will use this for a BB display.

Anchor Charts NF Book Club Unit of Study

Just a couple of anchor charts devised during mini-lessons for the Nonfiction Book Club Unit.

Nonfiction Word Hunt

At the start of each new science unit, I have my students hunt for the "key" words that they find on the new topic in a variety of texts.  They browse the text features across all of the print material. As they browse the text, they record the words they find and tally up how many times they see them across the materials they worked with in the session. They really enjoy doing this and 

learn so much about content vocabulary and how important it is to pay close attention to it.