Readers' Workshop
During Readers' workshop we have been discussing all sorts of strategies to become even better readers including how we chose books, how to pick out a "just right" book, getting to know our classroom library, why we abandon books and how to "buzz" (talk about books). Ms. Shannon has been reading books to the class ("Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Suess, "Applemondo's Dreams" by Patricia Polacco and several stories by Leo Leoni just to name a few) and students have been working on building stamina by reading on their own during D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything And Read) time every day.
Writers' Workshop
So far in writers' workshop we have decorated our notebooks and brainstormed different topics to write about. We have been learning about narrative writing and how to generate ideas when you aren't sure what to write about (see below). Today we learned the difference between a watermelon and a seed story. A watermelon story is when we try to summarize a larger event (i.e. "My Summer Vacation" or "My Trip to Florida") where as a seed story is focusing or zooming in on a small moment. We are going to do our best to write seed stories and "zoom in" on all of those juicy details.
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