Where you like to read

http://larremoreteachertips.blogspot.com/

I absolutely loved these two ideas!!

Write and draw about where readers like to read. Check out her post here. 

Holiday traditions

We also did some Christmas sentence starters like: "Christmas is special because," "My favorite Christmas tradition is," or "I like Christmas because." Each kid made 2 hand-prints and 2 sentence starters to make our wreath!

 

http://stepintosecondgrade.blogspot.com/search/label/christmas

We are all special and unique

This lesson came from Scholastic.com. I read "Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon" to the class and we talked about how Molly's grandma helped her feel special. Then we read the poem that was on the Scholastic lesson plan called "Sunny Sunflowers," and discussed how we are like sunflowers because we are all special and unique

On each petal, they wrote a sentence telling what made them special. This really helped me see who could form sentences on their own, and who needed help!

 

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"What we are reading"

http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/search/label/Book%20Whisperer

wanted the kids to be able to visibly see their progress in the classroom as well as in their data notebooks so here was my plan:

I made a What We're Reading board. Each time decides they are committed to a book or a student finishes a book, they get a note card. On the card they put their name, the title of the book, and the author. Then they turn the cards in to me and I punch a hole and put them on a metal ring and hang them on the board on a fat push pin. (now, I realize that there are only 12 hanging there....I have 22 students so........some are slower readers, some have given up on a book, others forgotten....it's a work in progress.)

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