Today was clean up day. We spent the first part of the morning just cleaning up unfinished work from math or other projects we have been working on. As students finished, they could read.
Today we learned about Trash or Treasure. I took several different pieces of students writing, pulled a sentence from it, and wrote it on a sentence strip....exactly how it was written by the student. I did not identify the student. We looked at the sentence for editing: word wall words spelled correctly, spaces, capital letters, and punctuation. We did not look at word choice as that is revision. We were only concerned about editing.
We then separated the sentence strips into TRASH (not edited) or TREASURE (edited). We learned that we have to edit our writing or it is TRASH! We want to turn our TRASH into TREASURES! Students then went back to writing, editing their pieces into TREASURES!!!
After P.E. and music, we learned about the census that citizens of the U.S. will be participating in. We discussed laws and what they mean. We are participating in an online project with schools across the country. We completed various census activities in our room and will finish up next week. I'll keep you posted.
Have a GREAT weekend and don't forget to READ....READ....READ!!!!!
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