My topics I am thinking about are:
- planets
- careers
- animal reports (maybe frogs, turtles, penguins)
Any ideas or suggestions would be great!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Ideas for future literature groups
I am thinking of a couple different areas to study with this group. Mt problem is finding enough resources to use with 22 kids for 30 minutes, 4 days a week. Each child needs something to do.
My topics I am thinking about are:
My topics I am thinking about are:
Saturday, October 18, 2008
1st and second weeks are over
The first 2 weeks are over and i am feeling more comfortable. The first week, we did a fiction book about clubs, compared the story with other books, created club rules, and met each other.
The second week we read an informational fiction about spiders. On Monday, the students complete an altered KWL chart telling 5 things they knew about spiders and 5 questions they had about spiders. I used partner reading, by handing each child an orange or blue number when they walked in and they read with the student who had the match. They then discussed comprehension questions.
On Tuesday we discussed nonfiction work. We talked about facts versus opinions, plagiarism (or the first grade equivalent) and parts of nonfiction books, such as diagrams and labels, the table of contents and the glossary. The students completed a glyph about their opinions of spiders and labeled the parts of spiders.
The second week we read an informational fiction about spiders. On Monday, the students complete an altered KWL chart telling 5 things they knew about spiders and 5 questions they had about spiders. I used partner reading, by handing each child an orange or blue number when they walked in and they read with the student who had the match. They then discussed comprehension questions.
On Tuesday we discussed nonfiction work. We talked about facts versus opinions, plagiarism (or the first grade equivalent) and parts of nonfiction books, such as diagrams and labels, the table of contents and the glossary. The students completed a glyph about their opinions of spiders and labeled the parts of spiders.
- Spider Diagram -
- Spider Glyph - http://www.abcteach.com/free/g/glyph_spider.pdf
- Spider Fact Project
On Wednesday, the students used nonfiction books from the school library to find 8 facts about spiders. The students were writing the facts on gray strips of 1in X 9in paper.
On Thursday, the students completed their spider facts and created a fact spider (using the gray strips for the spiders eight legs).
Our groups do not meet on Friday, due to testing in the homerooms. We are skipping groups next week, because of UF homecoming on Friday and a play we are attending on Tuesday. We feel that skipping the groups will allow us to cover all reading material and be able to test on Thursday.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
First Week
I have 22 students with a different level of "high" reading ability. The first day we discussed the idea of literature groups and decorated name tags. I have taped the name tags to desks, so i can flip them down when my homeroom class comes back. Second day we read a story called "The Everyone Club." We discussed different clubs and related it to our reading club. We also voted on a mascot...they chose a shark.
I am worried about the transitions moving to and from classes. The kids are so loud and excited that they are distracted for at least 15 minutes afterward. Also, the timing between teachers is causing interruptions and even more distractions. How can we help timing and transitions?
I am worried about the transitions moving to and from classes. The kids are so loud and excited that they are distracted for at least 15 minutes afterward. Also, the timing between teachers is causing interruptions and even more distractions. How can we help timing and transitions?
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