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I like the term Stank. I’m feeling it, where kids don’t want to work, but are bored and restless if not kept busy. It’s a terrible way to spend three weeks, and maybe we can brainstorm a set of practices, of CI disguised-as-review-activities for us to fall back on in these times.
It is universal, isn’t it, John? I am working through the same dilemma. I have to remember to breathe deeply and just keep things simple or I get too frenzied and try to tie up too many loose ends. Ben often mentions getting our teaching to the elegant place. Somehow I am feeling less than elegant and “stank” has a lot to do with it. Stank, the sound of it is less than elegant too.
loose ends. why are we so hard on ourselves at the end of the year? This is not the time to stress over what we have not accomplished this year, but to try to remember and acknowledge all that we have accomplished. I’ll be jumping over to Laurie’s blog for a reminder. Sending good thoughts to all.
For less stank, do more output, stuff like:
1. Free writes (writing)
2. Dictée (writing)
3. OWATS (writing)
4. vPQA (speaking)
5. Group Retells (speaking)
6. Sentence Frames (writing)
7. Textivate
8. Running Dictation (speaking, writing)
I have been having my students draw a lot and then a class discussion of the drawings. Sometimes I give them a sentence strip from the story (or novel); or sometimes I let them choose their own. At this point in May, they still seem to be willing to look at drawings and talk about them. This will probably work for another week or two before the stank gets stankier. Then my advice is to just breathe.
I echo what Piazza says. Make the end of the year a celebration.
I take the second to last week to do a Susie Gross Snow Plow novel.
And in Spanish 1-2 the last week to make “children’s books” out of all the stories. That last week we just work, listen to all the songs we have learned throughout the year, and just chill. I love to watch kids sing along with a Sr. Wooly song, reading a story they have already seen a bunch of times, and just drawing.
Here’s the rubric: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8wMs6ixPmJrNUpoSURCLVgzZkU/view?usp=sharing
In Spanish 3-4 we watch movies the last week.
Note to self: I want to stop teaching/adding new structures in April (after Spring Break-except for leveled novel – rushing through end of BB wants a Dog due to all the lost instruction/PARCC testing!!), and spend the remainder of the year recycling and reminiscing. Revisiting all the books, stories, MT clips, photos, props, songs etc. and giving them ‘end of year’ treatments, like the ideas in Ben’s EOY list above. It has the added advantage of reminding EVERYONE, including ourselves, how fun, pleasant, quirky, silly and different our class is, and of course, how much TL we recognize/have acquired.
I will go through and collect/organize all the ‘texts’ and see which treatments best accompany each one, for novelty. This is a great exercise in trying out some new-to-me strategies from Ben’s list.
Love it!
Hey Ben,
I need to change my email to a personal one since I am leaving this job in two days. I’ve looked a little and only found a way to change my password. A little technical help please.
Just send me your preferred email to benslavic@yahoo.com and I will fix it.