On this one you can see how I have three sliding boards behind me. On the far right are question words and what used to be clutzy posters, now just a panel on a white board of a handsome collection of very common/useful question words and other words like that that I really need for younger classes at the beginning of the year. I don’t miss those silly posters of question words:
Those armchairs are unbelievable. Today in a block, with ten precocious 8th graders on my right, as I sat in that armchair, and the reading projected up on the middle board, using ROA, I was in heaven. It became like I was just talking to them in French. Sitting in the chair reduced me from a “teacher” (whatever that is) to a person following my ROA sequence and just talking to them:
Here over my head is the Word Wall for the Word Association activity that is being added to in strips as we get to them. Under that, kind of behind me, is the new Verb Wall to which we will only add verbs when we all completely know them:
