We had a fabulous first week back from Spring Break. This is a wonderful time of year because we can really see how much our students have matured. They flow with us now.
As promised from a previous blog, we wanted to devote our time on this blog to our fable writing. We used Jane Loretz's fable lesson. We decided to combine our classes together and let the kids get into small writing groups of two or three. They were thrilled. The details on how to carry out this writing lesson are included in her packet. It worked beautifully and it was very engaging. The students cheered every writing session.
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| Students chose their characters and moral from the bags. |
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| Planning page |
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| First draft |
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| Final copy |
We are also using Jane Loretz's reader's theater scripts from this lesson plan bundle. Since the students are enjoying this genre, we thought we would take advantage of their enthusiasm and practice oral fluency and expression. To review them, the What's My Voice Fluency cards from Smekens was a fun way to drive home the point that you need to be expressive with your voice to communicate your moods and feelings.
Next week we plan on making Podcasts of the reader's theater performances. We we were also invited to showcase our fable writing and Podcasts to our Board of Education. What an honor.
If you decide to try any of these ideas, let us know how they worked out for you.
Have a great weekend. Enjoy the nice weather we are finally having.
Kim and Anne
