By now I hope most parents have heard the words "Daily 5" spoken at home by your student. Concepts like word work, buddy reading, and read to self are key to the success of our classroom. The majority of our afternoon is spent doing Daily 5. This allows for students to work independently or in partners, while I work with a small group at the bean table. We typically get through three or four rounds, which last about fifteen minutes each. At some point in the afternoon we will break for a mini-lesson. We do this in between rounds which allows me to teach the lesson or skill for the day. Mini lessons can include reading the weekly story, grammar concepts, writing skills, and many other various topics. While students are working independently they have five choices of activities. The first, read to self, is self explanatory. They choose a just right book from their book box and read independently. Buddy reading is a second choice. Students are directed to sit "EEKK" (elbow, elbow, knee, knee) with a partner. They take turns reading a story and ask one another questions while they read. Word work is a classroom favorite. Students have several hands-on activities to choose from. Writing spelling words on white boards, braille, sign language, and dictionary hunt are just a few that students can choose to complete. Writing is the fourth activity students can choose to participate in. There are ten different writing activities that vary from stories, lists, personal interviews and poems. This is supplemental writing from our curriculum and designed to be fun and interactive. Lastly, listen to reading is the final component of the Daily 5. In the past students listened to the weekly story, but as of this week students will be doing RAZ Kids. Information was sent home via "Remind 101" and was posted to the blog in a previous post. While all of the student driven learning is happening, I am working with small groups of students on a variety of skills. At times, guided reading may be happening where all students are reading a leveled book together. When we finish the book we discuss and write about it. You will find this writing in your students "writing binder". There are plenty of times where we will be working on a pre-teach or re-teach skill as well. This is a time where learning is individualized to the student. I can work 1:1 with a student on a particular topic they need extra help on. Below are several pictures of what a typical afternoon looks like while we are doing Daily 5.
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After a nice long weekend, we hit the ground running today in room 107. During math today we used Pear Deck to learn how to do "Bow-Tie Multiplication". We have learned several ways to multiply numbers these past few weeks. Students have enjoyed learning to multiply "BIG NUMBERS". We also participated in our Guided Math Routine. Similar to Daily 5 students work independently while I work with a small group of students. During this type some student chose to work on Front Row (Please see our previous blog post regarding Front Row). In literacy we learned about past, present, and future verbs. We began the lesson by taking a short quiz using a program called Socrative. Socrative provides the students and I immediate results of their performance and allows students to work at their own pace. I shared the students "grade" with them. We then completed a verb scoot. A scoot is a fun activity that allows us to move around the classroom answering various questions. After discussing these questions, we finished the lesson by taking the quiz again. We compared our first quiz to the quiz after learning more about past, present and future verbs. Guess what? Almost all of us did better. We were so proud of our accomplishments and our ability to compare our data. Daily 5 is a major component of our classroom. Each day students have the opportunity to choose what they would like to do during this time. The selections include read to self, buddy ready, word work, writing or listen to reading. All components include curriculum based work as well as supplemental materials I have added. While students are working independently I am working with a small group of students on reading or writing. Below is a picture of Daily 5 from a "teachers perspective". As you can see there is a small group of students working with me at the bean table, while the rest are working independently throughout the room.
Today we practiced our Daily 5 writing skills. We have added a bunch of fun writing activities to Daily 5. We also discussed our Daily 5 writing portfolio that we will compile throughout the school year.
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