We begin every morning with journal writing. We pick our own topic: what we did last night, what we are doing today, exciting events, etc. By journaling we have learned: every sentence begins with a capital letter, punctuation goes at the end of every sentence, to space our words, & to independently use a dictionary to look up unknown words. We love to bring our journals to our big carpet. We make two standing groups: an inner circle & outer circle. Mrs. J plays music & the inside circle begins to walk around. When she stops the music, we stop & read our journal writing to the closest person in the outer circle. As the game continues the outer circle might walk & share. It is AWESOME & fun to listen to what our friends wrote about.
Monday, March 24, 2008
What's In Your Journal?
We begin every morning with journal writing. We pick our own topic: what we did last night, what we are doing today, exciting events, etc. By journaling we have learned: every sentence begins with a capital letter, punctuation goes at the end of every sentence, to space our words, & to independently use a dictionary to look up unknown words. We love to bring our journals to our big carpet. We make two standing groups: an inner circle & outer circle. Mrs. J plays music & the inside circle begins to walk around. When she stops the music, we stop & read our journal writing to the closest person in the outer circle. As the game continues the outer circle might walk & share. It is AWESOME & fun to listen to what our friends wrote about.
Mrs. Jones' Junior Geniuses,
ReplyDeleteI have been checking my emails, and I found a website that Mrs. Jones' sent me telling me about all the great things you are doing in class. It looks like you had a great time on your field trip. I found some intersting ideas for my classroom. One of the things that I really like is the way you share your creative writing. Yesterday I saw you writing in your journals, I wish I had been there to see you share with your friends. I'm going to choose a couple days a week where we do the same thing. Thank you for putting such great information on your blog for others to learn from.
Mrs. Silkey