November 23, 2015…..

Me:  “So, what word do you think we should use this week to make word sums with?”

Students:  ” Um….let’s see…..how about ‘turkey’!  or ‘stuffing’!  Wait, we should probably study ‘Thanksgiving’ since it is happening this week!”

Student 1:  “Or, we should study just ‘thanks‘ because we can make a lot of words with that.”

Student 2:  “We could study ‘giving‘ because we could make ‘give, gives and giving‘ with it.”

Me:  “Great ideas!  Since we can make many word sums with ‘thank‘ , let’s try that one, then we will try to make a matrix!”

 

RESULTS:

• Beautifully spelled out word sums together,
• Many “Ah-HA! moments with new learnings (especially when analyzing <giving>)  and
• Matrix making–planning, organizing & execution!

 

Heart Group — Grade 2

 

 

     

 

Diamond Group — Grade 4

 

      

 

 

Star Group — Grade 5

 

   

 

 

Classroom Board

 

         

 

Tuesday we will journal about things we are thankful for!  At the top of my list—  finding the SWI Community to learn from!

Happy Holidays All

Mrs. Barnett