During our class meeting this morning we went over how to have active listening while participating as an audience!
We delved into Writer's Workshop today and discussed a strategy to use when we are finding ideas for true stories! We also worked today on expectations during Writer's Workshop, and afterwards delved into writing our own small moments that have happened to us! A few of us shared out our small moments too!
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We had our first foray with the laptop cart today, and we went over and discussed how to appropriately take our laptops out of the cart and how to properly put our laptops back into the cart to charge them! This might seem like a very minuscule procedure, but it needed to be modeled (by me), and needed to be practiced by the students many, many times over!
We worked on our listening and speaking skills heavily today, by being a supportive audience and listening to our teammates present their Me Bags!
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| Fritz even used the Jot Dot strategy to remember what he needed to say during his presentation! |
We went over decomposing again today, and we had an Exit Ticket that we needed to accomplish before heading out to recess. The exit ticket is a type of formative assessment that I use in the class. What is a formative assessment you might be asking? Well... the goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. More specifically, formative assessments:
- help students identify their strengths and weaknesses and target areas that need work
- help faculty recognize where students are struggling and address problems immediately
- draw a concept map in class to represent their understanding of a topic
- submit one or two sentences identifying the main point of a lecture
- turn in a research proposal for early feedback
- Work on a math problem or two that has the students utilizing strategies recently taught
Near the end of the day, a student passed out fortune cookies and explained how they were made (because she went to the factory over the weekend!)
Anna P. mentioned that at the fortune cookie factory she went to, the cookies themselves were hand-folded! Here's a video that you can share with your child on how fortune cookies are made, only this video has machines folding the cookies!
And I think that about does it folks! Cheers, and have a good one!
