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Today was Launch Day!

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Today we launched our second Daily 5 round, Work on Writing. We first talked about why it is so important to write every day. Here are a few of the reasons we thought of:

  • It is fun!
  • It helps us to become better readers and writers.
  • We can write about whatever we choose.
  • We care about our writing and our readers.

Then we made an I Chart for Work on Writing just like the one we made for Read to Self. Our jobs during Work on Writing will be:

  • Stay in one spot
  • Get started right away!
  • Write the whole time
  • Work quietly
  • Choice of what to write
  • Underline words we are unsure of and move on
  • Build our stamina!

After a few students modeled what Work on Writing should and shouldn’t look like we were ready for our first practice.  Can you believe how quiet the room is?  We were definitely in the writing zone!


 

What is your favourite thing to write about?

Partner Storybirds with B4

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Earlier this term we started a wonderful collaborative writing project with our friends in Mrs. McKenzie’s class in New Zealand. We were each given a buddy or two from Mrs. McKenzie’s class that we would write our Storybirds with.

Our class started by picking some art work that we thought our buddies would like and then we wrote the first page. Next we passed the stories to our New Zealand friends. It was so exciting waiting to see what our friends would write. Sometimes we were surprised by the twists and turns the stories would take and other times it seemed like our buddies had been reading our minds!

Writing a story with someone on the other side of the world, without being able to talk to them, taught us to be flexible. We had to reread the story each time it was passed back to us and then choose a picture and write the next bit that would fit with the direction the story was taking.

We hope that we get a chance to write collaborative stories again! Here are two of the stories that were written. To see the other partner Storybirds you can visit B4’s wiki and click on each student’s page. The 2/3’s will be adding the Storybirds to their blogs later this week.

The Busy City by Fay, Dylan and Kayden
The Busy City on Storybird

The Haunted House by Niall, Liam and Matthew
The Haunted House on Storybird

Thanks so much to Mrs. McKenzie and B4 for teaming up with us for this fantastic project!

We Love Daily 5!

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The grade 2/3’s have worked very hard at building their stamina during Read to Self, Work on Writing, and Read to Someone. Each of our rounds is now 20-25 minutes and the students are really enjoying choosing which Daily they want to do for each round.

This slide show shows how we spent our third round of Daily 5 today and the things we like best about learning this way.

More Daily 5 on PhotoPeach

Tomorrow we get to add another choice to our Daily 5 time… Listen to Reading!