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Five For Friday!

Happy Friday! Whew, what a week!! You with me?? Here’s what I was up to this week…

I’ve been working on getting all of our workshops set up and rolling! I got this goodie during the TPT B2S sale – I have been using Math Workshop for several years, but I loved that this had foldables to go with my set-up!

Math workshop with Ideas by Jivey
Foldables with Ideas by Jivey

We also started working on building our reading stamina this week. My kids are up to 13 minutes! :o)

Freebie Reading Stamina Poster with Ideas by Jivey     Launching Reading Workshop with Ideas by Jivey

You can grab this freebie poster here! It’s also included in my Launching Reading Workshop Pack!

I always start Writing Workshop by having the students collect some good seed ideas. I found a book that I used to use in 3rd grade (…that I had totally forgotten about!!! Do you do that, too?) and the kids loved it!

Collecting good seed ideas with Ideas by Jivey
It is seriously the cutest book! Click here to buy it on Amazon!
Collecting good seed ideas with Ideas by Jivey

I had my students make 12 boxes in their notebook, and after reading each page, I had the students write down a time they felt the same way as the girl!

Collecting good seed ideas with Ideas by Jivey

These will make great stories later! :o)

I was actually able to get in a few mini-lessons this week! One of them excited my kids SO very much. I like to show Pixar short films in reading for comprehension strategies… after all… they are just visual stories! We watched Partly Cloudy and used Lovin Lit’s awesome summarizing flapbook from her Interactive Reading Literature Notebook to practice “Who, Wanted, But, So, Then.”

Lovin Lit's flapbook from her Interactive Reading Literature Notebook  with Ideas by Jivey
I was a good kid when I was in school (no, really!), but the only thing I ever got in trouble for was talking… I think sometimes my classes are my payback for that. 😛
With Ideas by Jivey
I’ll leave you with this little funny. I certainly have a couple of these kiddos this year…! :o)