Bela was our child of the day and she read with GREAT fluency, Ben's Treasure Hunt. She chose this book, she said, because it's a just right book! Good choice!
This was the absolute BEST day! Writers' Workshop flowed so smoothly with students revising their Gingerbread stories that Natalie and I were able to model for the kids how a peer conference is run. (She did a wonderful job, by the way!) Then, for those that were ready to conference with a friend, did it on their own and they were amazing! It was wonderful...lots of writing...lots of conferencing...and I'm free to work one on one with students.
Readers' Workshop was just as GREAT! I began by pulling some "tools" out of a bag for the students to use their schema and the clues as to who this bag belonged to. This was a concrete lesson to model what inferring is: clues plus schema equals an inference. Everyone was engaged as we shared our thinking. There were some great inferences, even when the answers as to who the bag belonged to weren't the same. Everyone was able to support their reasons and they all made sense...which is what makes the difference between a prediction and an inference. During the workshop time it was quiet as students were reading, reading, reading....lots of GREAT thinking that was shared at the close. I was able to conference with some students and led several guided reading lessons. WONDERFUL work today, students!
During math workshop we worked on problem solving and math facts again today. But, it was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop! And the results....GREAT thinking that was right on! And I was able to work one on one with several students!
The students shared at the end of the day how wonderful it was. Students shared what they learned as we went into the a smooth end of the day dismissal!
Thank your child for a job well done today!
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