Picture Walk

Today I had the students do a picture walk.  I found five pictures that went with an article that we were going to read about the Elk River chemical spill.  Here are just a few of the pictures that we used on our picture walk:

During the picture walk the class walked around the room and wrote down their thinking about the pictures.  Some students wrote questions or wondered about what they were seeing or just described the scene.  It was interesting to see the students try and figure out how the pictures fit together.  

After the picture walk we read an article about the chemical spill in the Elk River.  As we read the article the class was trying to figure out the 5 W's in the text.  Tomorrow we are going to have the students finish reading the article and write a news report about what happened in West Virginia.  

We have also started a new read aloud book.  Our new read aloud is Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo.  We actually started to read the book yesterday, but today we really started to get into the book.

I had started to read this book myself right before winter break.  By the time I got to the fourth chapter I had laughed out loud multiple times and knew this was going to be our next read aloud.  I hope you will ask your students about this book.  I know I love it and we are only on chapter four.  

Hope you are all staying warm and having a great week.