Another busy, busy Monday! This morning we worked in our writers' notebooks for the first time. I had students do some "power writing" to build their stamina. I put a noun and a verb on the board and students wrote in their notebooks using those two words somewhere in that writing. We stopped after each 5 minute increment to talk and process how those minutes went for each child. It is my hope to work on "power writing" all week so that students are used to silent sustained writing. We also did a curriculum based measure (CBM) where students wrote to a prompt for three minutes.
In reading, we read aloud from The Crazy Man. I gave out book orders and did a lot of book talks about books in the orders. Students wrote titles on their Books to Read lists. These orders are due Friday. 2 hours and vocabulary is due tomorrow. Student also practiced Read to Self for 5 uninterrupted minutes.
In science, 6F worked on their graphs with the computers. These are due on Wednesday.
We had spelling in 6F today for the first time! Students took a pretest on the first 100 Core Words.
