I know it's been awhile since I posted anything here and there is a reason. This school year, I moved to a new town and a new school. I now teach first grade at Woodland Heights Elementary in Brownwood, Tx. I have been busy adjusting to a new house, new school, and making supplemental activities for the new Into Reading HMH adoption. I have been saving some things that I have been doing with my class (my camera roll on my phone is FULL) to share with you when I get a chance and that is what I am here to do today.
This past week, we were learning about Texas Symbols and I needed to get in some nonfiction writing so I combined the two.
Here is a finished product from one of my firsties:
We completed these in one week.
On Monday, I went over the nonfiction features we would put in our book. These were:
Title Page, Table of Contents and a "fun fact" that needed to be included on at least one symbol.
I used two nonfiction books that had these features and we went over them.
On Tuesday, we read about Texas symbols. I used a PowerPoint I purchased on TpT by Cheryl Martin. If you are interested in the one I used, you can check it out HERE.
Then, I had the students fold a piece of white paper into fourths and draw 4 symbols they wanted to write about. (To save time, as they were working, I went around and spelled/wrote the name of their symbol for them) Here are a few samples of our prewriting:
On Wednesday and Thursday, we wrote our books.
On Friday, my students shared their booklets with each other.
You can grab a copy of the booklet by clicking on the picture below.
Happy Teaching!
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