Showing posts with label reflections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reflections. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2015

Gr3's Reflect on Their Writing


Students in Mrs. MacDonald's class share their retell story;
Blogging Reflections
 
1. Mrs. MacDonald read the book The Sandcastle Contest by Robert Munsch.

2. We wrote our ideas for beginning, middle and end to help us with our writing.

3. We wrote our draft.

4. Mrs. MacDonald read our drafts and helped us become stronger writers.

5. We then wrote our good copies of the retell. 

 Rylan's writing reflection:

I learnt how to use quotations when a person is talking.

I learnt how to create notes in columns to help my writing.

I felt confident with my writing.

Brynn's writing reflection:
I learnt how to use punctuation properly like quotation marks, question marks and exclamation marks!

I learnt how important it is to make the important letters uppercase like in the title the word Sandcastle and Contest but not words like and or it.

I learnt how to print my letters really neatly.

I felt  happy. I love writing. I felt comfortable and thought I knew the book really well.

Monday, April 7, 2014

April Book Club - A Big Success!

Gr. 5, 6 & 7 students joined me for a long recess of snacks and discussion in this months book club.

Running Dream by Wendelin van Draanen was our April book club chosen book.  Due to the popularity of this book we had to postpone book club a few weeks to ensure all students who wanted to, could read it.  Book Club was worth the wait.  The students loved the book!  We had great character discussions about Jessica, Rosa, Fiona and Gavin. Students felt Jessica's story was portrayed realistically with some set backs and triumphs.  We talked about Jessica's strength and determination, along with her frustration.  The discussion was lead by the students and boy did they have some great insights.  One discussion was around the important role Jessica's dad played when taking away the pain killers. Students spoke of how easily she could have become addicted to the pain killers and by taking them away, her dad was helping her.  One student mentioned that she probably had to go through pain in order to heal.

Students really liked Gavin as he was genuine and honest to Jessica about his feelings.  Rosie was also a favourite among students as was Jess' supportive friend Fiona.  One thing that hit a cord with students was when _______ mom sat with Jessica at the track meet and apologized at first for her daughter and then (paraphrasing) "no I apologize for myself for raising her that way".  This admission really resonated with the book clubers, feeling it was the right and brave thing for that mother to do. 


All and all we had a very enjoyable long recess discussing Running Dream.  The food was yummy, the discussion in-depth and the students were eager to take part.

Life as a TL doesn't get any better than that :) !