January 21, 2016

We started with 15 minutes of independent reading time. We set up our Writer's Notebooks, creating sections for books we're reading now, books we want to read, vocabulary words we meet along the way, and notes for class. We'll write at least a little bit every day! For today's entry, students explained their two-word autobiography that they created on the first day of class.

Using the character cubing and qualities work, students worked in groups to discover common bonds that the characters from their books share.

I posted the Summer Reading Work assignment on Classroom. Students will rank their summer reading books in order of most difficult to least difficult, then reflect on the assignment as a whole. Students should turn this in on Classroom by tomorrow (we will have 20 minutes to tie up any loose ends). They will also hand in the character cubing and qualities and summer reading book list tomorrow.

Today's Board

Two Word Autobiographies