I am excited to share that our class
has been invited to participate in this year’s PoemCity Montpelier, a National
Poetry Month festival. For the past
eight years, Montpelier has displayed poetry from Vermont writers ranging from
age five to ninety-two. Each student
from our classroom has selected a watercolor and poem. I have received word from Michelle Singer,
one of the festival’s organizers, that three of the poems will be on display in
the front window at Woodbury Mountain Toys and the rest will be in the Hayes
room at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. She
has also notified me tonight that the Times-Argus will be featuring photos of
our display.
This week we began writing our
reflections for sharing at the student led conferences that we will be holding
in a couple of weeks. Students have
completed some thoughtful reflections and goals for the fourth quarter. Please look in this week’s Friday folders for
a sheet to sign up for these conferences.
In Library class, we have worked on
reading fluency skills during the past few weeks. Students have learned about the categories
that they are formally assessed on three times each year (Expression, Phrasing,
Accuracy, and Rate). They then selected
a traditional literature piece that they recorded reading and self-assessed
based on three of these categories.
Next, students set goals to work on to improve their fluency skills. After practicing for a week, they learned a
new way to record their reading and have once again self-assessed. This work will be one of the things shared
during conferences.
In writing, we have now completed
our pre assessment on opinion/argument writing.
Next week, we will look at how to select topics, leads, and transitions
for this genre of writing. We also
continue to create watercolors/poetry and will hopefully finish writing
reflections for the conferences.
Have a wonderful weekend!
