Can You Find the Treasure? November 6, 2009
Posted by Ms Tulli in Class News.Tags: conferences, Geography, Mapping, oral reading, peer editing, Process, self-editing, Social Studies, Strategies, technology, Writing, writing process
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Our projects are complete and demonstrate a great deal of learning across various subjects. Students worked to practice and apply the following concepts and skills in their work.
Writing
- using procedural writing to communicate directions
- using sequential words to organize their writing
- including details and description
- using the writing process to self-edit, peer edit and conference with teachers before publishing
Reading
- reading aloud clearly with expression and appropriate pacing
Geography
- map components - key, compass rose, title
- using cardinal directions to navigate
Technology
- saving and retrieving files from a thumb drive
- using Notebook software
- keyboarding
- giving thoughtful feedback to other students’ via the blog
Enjoy! Hope you find the treasures!
We Are Writers September 22, 2009
Posted by Ms Tulli in Language Arts.Tags: Process, Strategies, Writing
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We are fortunate to have Mrs. Gaetgaoew in our class during Writing Workshop. Primarily, Mrs. G is with us to help support our English language learners, however we use a team-teaching approach and Mrs. G. often lends support wherever she sees the need.
Since the beginning of the year, during Writing Workshop, we have been working on walking through the world as writers. We want the children to know that they have stories in their lives that are worth telling – they just have to notice them and save them so that they can write about them later.
The children spent the first few weeks doing lots of wonderful writing while we taught mini-lessons to develop their writing skills.
Mini-lessons included the following
• Choosing a topic
• Writing to get our ideas down
• Conferring with a partner and a teacher
• Organizing our ideas before we write
• Revising our work by adding details
• Rewriting a piece of work for publishing
• Using an editing checklist
• Publishing our work for an audience
Students used the Writing Process to move from writing first drafts to publishing their best work.
First Draft - We wrote to get our ideas down.
Revising - We chose a piece to make into our best work and got feedback from our partners on how to make it better.
Planning - We planned how to organize our story.
Second Draft - We applied what we learned to improve our work.
Editing - We checked our work over.
Conferring - We worked with a partner to improve our work even further.
Publishing and Sharing - We made a published copy to proudly share with an audience.
Congratulations to all of our talented authors!