Do you remember those ancient projectors we all used to have in school? My memory brings me back to elementary school watching books on cassette tape while the teacher clicked through the slide show, or watching a series of photographs of various living organisms in biology. Did you ever thing you'd see one again? Well, from out of the depths of my disastrous cupboards one has emerged! Our reading comprehension skill for the last two weeks has been sequencing, which means putting events in a story in order. This is important because, of course, if a story went out of order it wouldn't make much sense. Students made many connections to other "real life" sequences as well, such as our daily schedule, time lines, tv shows, movies, cooking with a recipe, plays in several different sports, etc.
To extend this skill to our literacy project, I asked students to first summarize a story in one sentence to identify the plot line of the story, then list the important events that created that plot, and finally recreate it on blank filmstrip (which also came out of my cupboard in the form of one gigantic reel...pretty sure I have miles of it!!!). We used Sharpie to prevent smearing, and I gave students the option to use pictures or write events. Now that we are finished, it's time to sit back and enjoy the show! Literally!!! And the irony in this whole situation? Everyone thinks this archaic technology is the greatest thing we've done all year!!!
Now for the reminders:
- Redhawks Reading minutes must be turned in ASAP to earn 1st Base (Pizza Hut personal pan pizza). If these are not returned on time and students don't earn 1st base it will limit their opportunities to earn the rest of the bases!
- March book order due either online or Mrs. Clarey's desk first thing Tuesday morning!
- Wednesday - wear a readable t-shirt!
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