Today was a jam packed busy one! This morning I had the privileged of having some of my colleagues from another school in our district come in my class to check out how I do the Reading and Writing Workshop. They also have still be using the anthology and wanted to get away from it and wanted to see how I was doing it. If you want more on dumping the reading anthology
click here. I love helping other teachers find new ways to reach their kids. I expected them to be excited about changing curriculum, but the teachers were going on and on about how engaged my kids were and how they were reading such big novels. They also kept repeating ,'these can't be 3rd graders!' It actually made me feel very good that what I was teaching was making such an impact on my students and these other teachers.
After they left we had PLCs and discussed benchmark data. So exciting, let me tell you! My favorite part of the day came in the afternoon when we dove into our recycling unit and had our kids make their own recycled paper! My kids LOVED it and it was easy, which is me!
I also ended the night by going to Taco Night! There aren't many things that are as good as that! Now on to get some sleep.
I would L-O-V-E to see your reading/writing class in action! My district was finally allowed to stray from the basal texts last year, but I still feel like I'm missing some sort of structure/routine to my reading lessons. If you have anything you'd like to share, I'd be more than happy (ecstatic!!) to see how you do your reading block. Definitely going to check out that book you suggested!
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Taco Night, with me! I can't wait to make recycled paper!!
ReplyDeleteYes Amber!! Sorry, My eyes were literally closing as I was writing that post and I had to reread it to make sure it actually made sense!
ReplyDeleteHaley, I have several posts about Reading Workshop. If those don't give you what you need send me a message with what your looking for :)
Thanks! I'll go back and look them up!
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Guess who made recycled paper in 6th grade as their science fair project?
ReplyDeleteYour recycling project looks great! I might need to do this on Earth Day! Thanks for the idea! :)
ReplyDeleteLove it Rebecca! I know who can help us with our spring science fair :)
ReplyDeleteKelley, We did a whole recycling unit and my kids are working on Public Service Announcements right now. They are having a BLAST!