WNB Week 3 #2: Reflect on how the research portion of today went. What was easy, what was hard, and what could you do differently next time to make it better.
Read for 20 minutes! Kids went to the library yesterday, so they all have a book to read. We need to get into the swing of reading our novel each night, so consider this practice for that!
Finish WWII research and other station work if they didn't complete that during class time.
Want to see what we are doing? Here are some links that you can view, since you can't access our Google Classroom page!
WWII Vocab Definitions
WWII Slides Homework
WWII Research Chart
Research Graphic Organizer/Bellringer
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Today is our second day of small group stations work, and I'm excited! The feedback was positive from the kids after last time, and I'm hoping that working with peers and small groups doing different activities will help me teach students on a more individual basis while also encouraging the students to learn independently!
Our stations activities today include a teacher-led mini-lesson about research techniques and how to utilize the graphic organizer, a buddy station where they interact with the WWII vocab words and match them with images or pictures that represent the words, and an independent station where they complete the research on the topic they selected. Of course, if a student finishes early, they have a book to read!
I want kids to become reflective learners who make plans and goals for improvement, so our Writer's Notebook will focus on just that: how did the research go and how can we improve our skills for next time? (Of course this is also the perfect way to assess the basic conventions of writing that we need to practice!)
You may be asking what a student said yesterday - aren't wars supposed to be in SOCIAL STUDIES??!
Well, yes and no. As readers, we have to learn to read nonfiction texts and perform research tasks about many topics, especially topics that we are going to be reading fictional texts about! Our novel next week is set during WWII, so it's very important that we have background knowledge about the era. History and reading go hand-in-hand, and it's important for us to read historical and nonfiction texts during ELA class, just like it's important to read them during social studies classes, too!