Listen to Reading

We started Listen to Reading this week. The students now have three choices (read to self, work on writing, and listen to reading) but they only do two a day because of time. I am still rotating them through the stations, but once I have all five rotations going well I will allow them to choose where they go each day.

We began our daily five time each day this week by practicing how to take out the players and books, work them, and put them away.

We are also using TumbleBooks and PebbleGo on the computers for listen to reading. 

Self-Portraits

Our Wall of Self Portraits

Turkey Drawings

Today we read my favorite Thanksgiving story- A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting. Then we turned and talked with our partners about our favorite parts, used interactive writing to write about it, and drew turkeys.

Duck for President

In honor of the presidential election this week we practiced the voting process by voting on where we wanted to read the book Duck for President. The stage was the winner so everyone got to sit on the steps of the stage while I read the book to them.

Shopping For Books

This week in the daily five we worked on shopping for books from my book bins.

This week we only worked on shopping for "look books." At this point we have three "look books" in our boxes and 2 "good fit" readers. I will add shopping for "good fit" books in another week.

They loved being able to pick their own books from my bins. I can't wait to add "good fit" books to their shopping. 

Drawing and Labeling Pictures

Today in writer's workshop we read the book Dog Loves Drawing. Then we drew pictures of whatever we wanted and labeled them. The kids loved this book!

The Voting Process

This week we had a mock presidential election at our school. The kids signed a voter's registration card, signed in to vote, voted, and received a sticker to show they had voted.

We read the book If I Were President and talked about what characteristics make a good president.