The Short Week

I do not know if that counts as a week, but it sure felt like a whole week.

Today was great we continued to read The One and Only Ivan.  Both classes are having great discussions about the book.  In the students read aloud notebooks students are showing their thinking in all kinds of ways.  One way that we talked about was keeping a character web.  The students have been keeping track of what they have learned about Ivan on this web.

We also did a bit more in our writer's notebook.  Students started to make a list that we called, "things I like to talk about."  The class started to tell me and write down places, people and things that they loved to share with others.  The list got longer and longer for many of the students.  We heard about pets and vacation spots and family members and a whole list of other amazing ideas.

Then I had the students cross out the word talk and replace it with the word WRITE.  And that is exactly what we did...we spent time writing.  It was amazing to see all the authors get to work.  When we were finished we met at the rocking chair and students shared their writing.  As usual that writing blew me away.

I cannot wait to see all the different types of writing that students put in their writer's notebook this year.    Remember students can always bring home their writer's notebooks to share their work and hopefully to write a bit more.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.