Publishing

This week we are working on publishing our first writing projects.  The students are busy making their last minute changes to their final drafts and checking their spelling and adding illustrations.  It is fun to run around the room and have conferences with the students and see the choices that they are making about their writing.  I cannot wait to see the final products on Friday.

We also started to talk about the main dish projects from our menu boards.  Students were deciding between a mosaic about Charlotte's Web or a Venn Diagram comparing Charlotte's Web and The One and Only Ivan or an obituary for Stella and Charlotte.  The class now has a rubric for the projects that are planning to complete by next Friday.  If you have any questions about these projects, feel free to get in touch with me.

We continued to talk about questioning today.  I wanted to show the students how I ask questions before I read, during my reading, and after my reading.  I showed students how I do this with the book The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.

I really loved this book.  I saw so many connections with other Chris Van Allsburg books.  Then the students practiced asking questions before they read and during their reading and after their reading as we looked at an article from Time For Kids.  

Cannot believe that it is already Wednesday.