Brown Bag Project with "A Dog Called Kitty"

"Brown Bag Project"

My students will begin a "Brown Bag Project on - A Dog Called Kitty" in the next week. They will draw a card and choose a character. The characters consist of Ricky, Dad, Mom, Sammy, and Brad. I have included a rubric on scribd. http://www.scribd.com/doc/88611151/Brown-Bag-Project  --The following pictures display the actual content that students will be required to complete. They will also have the opportunity to place items in the bag and do a show and tell. I will provide a small rubric for this part of the assignment. My intent is for students to get use to presenting in front of an audience. 

Name of Character

Draw a picture of the character

List adjectives describing the character

Provide quotes from the character

Write in sequential order important events that the character experienced within the text.

Write a summary using beginning, middle, and end. The summary should provide information about the character and the details of important things that happened during the character's life within the text.

Writing; Author's Purpose

We practiced Arthur's Purpose in writing today. I wrote on the board the 3 different reasons authors write. I placed a different colored sticky note next to each category. Students quickly provided me with topics that could go under each category.

Afterwards, students received on of the different colored sticky notes. They were to write one of the purposes for writing based on the color that matched the category on the board.

Topics under each category.

Students wrote in their journals and placed their sticky note on the top.

I love this one--- Come try our new samwich! 

Gotta love kids!!!!

After their paragraphs were complete some students shared their topic and the rest had to guess if the author's purpose was to entertain, persuade, or inform. Then we expanded the conversation by providing evidence of phrases or key words that helped us decide in was one of the categories. 

Great Assignment

STAAR Game Boards for Review

My kids are gone to their dad's for Easter Weekend so I'm here at home cleaning and making new things for my third graders to prepare them for the up-coming Reading Staar Test. I created a game board-based on the rules, procedures, and strategies used on our state assessment. I actually got the idea from the blog site Life as a Fifth Grade Teacher.  I'm adding and modifying the board to fit the needs of my third graders. I recently completed the boards so I wanted to show them off. They are so cute! I'm going to have them laminated before the students play with them. I will have the rules and cards for the game uploaded as soon as I finish them. Enjoy! 

Here are the cards for the first two game boards. http://www.scribd.com/doc/88416550/Staar-Cards.I will be making different cards based on my third graders needs.

Total Participation Techniques: Resources

I'm thinking about ordering this book online at amazon. The author provides teachers with strategies and techniques to enhance participation in the classroom. The goal is to have students more engaged and active during oral discussions or collaborative groups. Students who can express his/her ideas, voice their opinions, or change their thinking due to learning new pertinent information -will more likely increase their higher order thinking skills. The primary goal is to cognitively engage students and keep them thinking out side the box. I think this book might be a great purchase to add to my teacher toolbox. 

Polka-Dot Wednesday April 4th

Summary Check

This is a cute idea that I got from one of the instructional coaches a couple of years ago. I found it in my file folder and thought it would be great to use in our literature study we have been working on. The students have been reading "A Dog Called Kitty". They have enjoyed this book so much. I hope I don't boo-hoo when Kitty gets hurt. Anyway, I will be using this neat Summary Check tomorrow after we read a chapter. A summary check is very easy to make and if anyone designs a better one please pass it to me!

Students are to write the check to me! LOL

They are to write 2 sentences about the beginning, middle, and the end.

They had a lot of fun pretending it was a real check.

 Next, the students glued the check into their packet for

"A Dog Called Kitty". Great Assignment today!

Cute Easter Eggs

I went to Walmart and purchased four bags of these cute animal print eggs. I just had to share the pictures of the eggs because they are so darn cute! I think I might go back and buy some more before they are all gone. Theses eggs can be used for so many activities. This week I plan on using the eggs for the following- inferencing, and synonym & antonym review. 

 

Today my kiddos did a Inference Hunt! We had to set up inside because last night the weather was bad. The ground was still real wet.They read inferencing cards and selected the best answer for the scenerio.  I have provided pictures below.