We started by looking at a pair of texts. We first looked at an article about Malala Yousafzai and her Nobel Peace Prize. The second text we looked at was a commercial that has been a big part of this year's World Series.
The students had conversations about what the two texts had in common and what was different about the texts. Then they started to write down some ideas. All this week they will be working on a "one-pager" that will share their thinking about the two texts. The "one-pager" will allow the students to expand their thinking before they share it with me this Friday.
In read aloud we checked in on Albie in Absolutely Almost.
Albie has been struggling to find friends at his new school. Today it looked like he might have found a new friend but we are all worried that this new friend might have ulterior motives. We still have a long way to go in this book but I am still enjoying finding out about Albie each day.
We also read another article about the drought. This article talked about a new plan from the mayor of Los Angeles. When the students were reading the articles, they worked on the P/C/Q reading strategy. This strategy has the students search for positives, challenges, and questions they have as they read. The students did a great job of finding these ideas in the text. Then we broke apart into five groups. The five groups worked on an A to Z brainstorming list. The idea of this A to Z sheet is to have students share what they know. The groups took all the articles that we had read about the drought. Then they tried to come up with important words that would fit with each letter. The groups did an amazing job and got a lot more letters than I had anticipated.
In writing we are going to take a week away from our Cynthia Rylant projects. During this week we are going to debate an issue. The issue we are going to debate this week is whether or not all children should get a trophy. The article we read today just laid out the debate. Tomorrow we will read two articles that take one side of the debate. Later this week students will share what they think. I love these debates weeks. It is so fun to see what the students think and how they can support their thinking.
Finally in Social Studies the groups divided into groups of five. Each group was assigned one of the prehistoric tribes we have been studying. The groups were told they would write a narrative from the perspective of an imaginary tribe member. The groups started to think about the setting they might need to share and facts that they could hide in the writing.
In the end the day was busy but I was excited by the energy that filled the room.
Hope you had a great start to the week!
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