I mentioned Brag Tags in an earlier post and received a few questions asking about them. The Brag Tags are sponsored by our AWESOME PTA and organized by our school counselor. Every student in the school gets brag tags. They all start the year out with a grade level tag. Hereās First Gradeās first brag tagā¦ Darling, right?! I write their names on the back of each tag so that we know which tags belong to each kiddo. As the year goes on, they can earn lots of different tags. There are some for reading, honor roll, attendance, field day, variety show, summer reading, birthday, etc. … [Read more...] about Brag Tags
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Draft Book Publishing
My kids write in their draft books almost every day during our Writerās Workshop block.Ā Every Tuesday, I have publishing moms that come in and take the kids one-by-one to help them publish one of their writing pieces into a little book they can keep in their book baskets to read at different times.Ā Hopefully by the end of the year the kids will haveĀ quite a collection of published books to take home and read to their families.Ā The kids look forward to Tuesday because they absolutely LOVE having their hard work published! Ā The publishing basket contains pencils, markers, a stapler, plain white paper {cut}, construction paper … [Read more...] about Draft Book Publishing
Readerās Response ā The Napping House
Weāve been talking about families this week one of our favorite books to read is The Napping House, by Audrey Wood. After reading the story, we talked about different things that we like to sleep with. CLEARLY, weāre not sleeping with a snoozing granny and a wakeful fleaā¦well, I hope weāre notā¦so we talked about different things that we take to bed, or things we took to bed with us when we were "littleā. I told them how my son sleeps with 5 Mickey Mouse dolls and they thought that was the funniest thing! HA! Hereās a little peek at their entry. One of the teacherās on our team had this cute little … [Read more...] about Readerās Response ā The Napping House
Readerās Response
Every kid in our classroom has a Reading Response Journal. Depending on the entry, weāll usually work our Readerās Response into the writing station OR weāll etch out a little time during Writerās Workshop to add to our journals. I usually complete an entry under my ELMO so that they can watch the process. I talk my way through it as well. This is a great opportunity to reinforce various writing/reading skillsā¦neat handwriting, use of capital letters at the beginning of every word in the title, underlining the title, author/illustrator, two-finger spaces, punctuation, etc. This is an awesome way to document their … [Read more...] about Readerās Response
Readerās Response Journal ~ If You Take A Mouse To School
Today we read, If You Take A Mouse To School by Laura Numeroff. We used this story to talk about āifāā¦āthenā statements and then we added an entry to our Readerās Response Journals. Hereās a little peekā¦ I gave them a reading prompt that they had to complete.If you take me to school, I will ask you for a _________________________________________________.This would be a pretty cute little prompt to use in a class book! … [Read more...] about Readerās Response Journal ~ If You Take A Mouse To School
