End of last week and start of this one!

Last week ended with us getting reading partners.  We will switch reading partners about once a month or so.  The purpose of a reading partner is:
To care
To share
To motivate

I look at it like the friend you always share your books with.  I tried to pair students with similar interests so that they can be caring about each other's reading lives, sharing their books with each other and motivating each other to keep reading!

We also had a chance to get on edmodo and join my class group.  While on here we did some chatting about books by creating "Book Buzz".  It was really good to get the computers out.  The kids love them.  I love them!  So, we will be using them more and more.  I have enough computers for a little more than 1/2 the class.

Today we started our writer's notebooks.  And, the first thing we need to do as writers is generate ideas.    The more ideas we have that serve as possibilities, the more we have when we need to write!

Today we learned that writers generate ideas by sharing stories and making connections.  We all shared stories and tried to make personal connections to each other's stories.  When we had a connection, we added it to our list in our notebook.