Thursday, October 18, 2007

During Reader’s Workshop, we read for 23 minutes. While we were reading, we were concentrating on marking pages for talking points during partnerships. Our goal was to stay on task for the entire time. Today we
created a monster. Different children made suggestions as to what it would look like. If we weren’t sure about how it should look, the class voted. After we finished designing our monster, we wrote descriptive clues explaining what Mrs. Crazypants (that’s her name) looks like. Next, we’re going to give the clues to teachers (and parents) to see if they can draw our monster correctly. In art, we sat on our projects to keep our work from getting crinkly while we played with play doh. We earned our second star because we listened carefully and were quiet. Justin lost his third tooth today! He pulled it out just after snack, when we were going outside. During Writer’s Workshop, we used markers to write and sketch. We’re using them so we can concentrate on getting our ideas on paper instead of erasing and thinking about spelling or handwriting. We set a goal of trying to write across a few pages and include more details. There is some terrific writing going on in here!