Week 6

This week we are starting to get into the flow of our work.  We spent several minutes talking about "Flow" and "getting into the groove."  You know when you are there as time flies by.  We also did a lot of reading strategies back to back in a single lesson plan.  Tonight we did a TPRC (Think, Predict, Read and Connect) followed by a GMA followed by a VSS (Vocabulary Self Collection Strategy).  Afterwards I shared Anticipation Guides, Questioning the Author, Reading Response Groups, and then writing across the curriculum with double entry journals, learning logs, written conversation, writing from our maps, KWLs and others.  Katie, Kaci and Stacy all shared one of their lesson plans.  We learned that the rubric says we need to include 10 questions from Bloom's taxonomy in our lesson plans.  I then assigned them two blog entries, one being take aways from tonight's lesson and a bio poem, which I cannot wait to read!