STILL: One Little Word

I tried out the “One Little Word” Challenge and came up with this. Not great, but not bad for my first time participating, right?

STILL: One Little Word

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“Everything and everyone goes on and on.”

I’ve read Jacqueline Woodson’s Book Sweet, Sweet Memory to three classes now. However, I’ve never had such an intense discussion with any other group of children about Sweet, Sweet Memory as I did with my class today during Interactive Read Aloud (aka: IRA). One of the boys in my class, who sits right [...]

Getting Organized for a “Report” Writing

Th entire fourth grade is going to be doing a report writing within science class (separate from our Writing Workshop). (It’s not actually a report since the final form will be an illustrated 10 page non-fiction picture book.) They’re also reading nonfiction books about the Solar System in Science Class. Hence, we [...]

Ruth’s WN Entry: Bath Time Routine

So, I totally forgot to take photos of the pre-dinner routine.  I’ll try for it this weekend & make another post on Inspiring Readers & Writers.  So the bath time routine will have to suffice, which is fine, because I wanted to document this too.
Let’s try this entry in a different format — a slide [...]

Some Websites

Here are a few websites I thought may interest readers of this blog.

Mary Helen Gensch, a writing coach for Whitko School District, shared this site for Graphic Organizers.  There are maybe a ba-jillion (and that’s a technical count) different graphic organizers for all of your organizing needs. 

Phil Metcalf, the vocational director at Wawasee High School, [...]

Still

For those of you who enjoyed our “One Little Word” Thing (which we borrowed from { A }’s blog), please go to the One Little Word Blog, where they have bi-weekly contests for working with a word and creating a visual representation of it. The most recent word contest is for the word still.
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