Mad Monday

This morning we had a book club meeting where we had to mark each others' effort, completition of work, participation and neatness of work. It was great to see some of our groups complete their roles: discussion director (writes thoughtful questions to discuss), summariser (writes a summary of the part of the book that was read), word wizard (finds interesting words or words that they don't know the meaning of and finds the definitions of them for their group) and the literary luminary (they find an interesting passage in the book to share and explain why they chose it. eg. change of setting, funny, important plot development).

Others are slowly learning each of these roles and are developing the ability to listen and share their thoughts and opinions.

After maths group we continued with our pen pal letters which are almost finished. This is the third letter we have received from our pen pals and we are really starting to get to know who our friends are.

Graphing can occassionally be a little bit of a dry subject but since I bought some smarties to liven the lesson up with and made everyone graph their container of smarties there has been great enthusiasm in completing their column graphs.

This afternoon we will be writing a narrative that we will end up giving to our pen pals. We are going to start today and hopefully edit it. When we get to publish it we have little booklets I made for the stories to be written in. What a great way to share our fabulous story writing!