So many projects!
Our month of October flew by so quickly! We were so busy doing so many things. Here are just a few of the things that we did throughout the month of October:
- We FINALLY completed our page for the collaborative poetry iBook known as the twima project. While we can't share with you our official entry page because we are waiting for it to be published, we can share with you some of the brainstorming rhymes that we created as we wrote our poem. Click http://goo.gl/SSJEVK to see what we came up with.
- Younger students began navigating through the CAFE menu for emergent readers and now they are able to identify which skill or skills we are working on in the menu on any given day (COMPREHENSION, ACCURACY, FLUENCY, or EXPANDING VOCABULARY.)
- Students wrote what they liked best about this time of year.
- Third grade in particular worked on strengthening their dictionary skills (using guide words, looking up things that are in alphabetical order, etc.) prior to taking the OAA.
- Younger friends worked on being able to decipher beginning sounds and ending sounds of words while older friends read Moomin and the Moonlight Adventure. After reading Moomin and the Moonlight Adventure, students created storyboards of their own stories that had the same elements as Moomin. Some students wrote stories based on their storyboards. Stories were peer edited by grade level friends. Read Gael and Jools' adventure story HERE!
- Students began to set up their new INTERACTIVE ESL NOTEBOOKS! We are excited to have a new tool we created ourselves that can help us! Every month, we will try to work with a different skill or skill that we can use in the regular classroom. In our notebooks this month, we are working on identifying critical information and organizing it into outline form. Different colored pencils help us determine the different subtopics in our outlines and the details that go under each subtopic.
- We also started RAZ KIDS this month. We love being able to earn points by reading (and recording our own voices reading) books that are in our own reading levels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Students were given a sheet of Halloween themed words and had to write stories based on any five words that they chose. Read some of our SPOOKIEST stories here. But beware! They are super spooky!
- One final thing that we did this month was read Click Clack Boo by Doreen Cronin. We read it EEKK (elbow to elbow, knee to knee) and completed a haunted house graphic organizer to figure out the story elements.
- Finally, some of us coded monsters for Halloween. Check out a link to one of our monsters here, and be sure to click PLAY to see him in action!