Today was the final literacy extension activity for the Field notebook lesson. I spent about 20 minutes talking with the students and working with examples on the white board. I explained to them that today we were going to write about their personal connections to the playground and the interactions they have had with the environment that they previously wrote and drew about. Again, I walked around the room and answered questions and helped them think about the assignment. I was surprised that a lot of them seemed to have a hard time switching from facts that they saw to personal experiences. I thought that it would have been easy for them to recall something fun or interesting about an environment that they play in every day, but I was not correct. Also some of the observation sentences were more experience sentences, especially in the 3rd graders case. I did not make a big deal out of that though, my focus was to have the students write about an environment and then expand the meaning of their sentences with descriptive words. Though today, I was not only requiring a difference in their writing voice, but also requiring them to add descriptive words as well. This took quite sometime for some of the students. Again I told the students that finished early that they could read silently until everyone was done writing. At about 2:55 pm we stopped writing and then I reviewed some of the personal sentences on the white board with the class. We wrapped up the lesson at around 3:00 pm and I turned the class over to Mrs. K. to get the students ready to go home for the day.
Today I stayed after for a little bit to speak with Mrs. K. about the lesson and how it went. She had a lot of positive feedback and thought that the lesson benefitted her students and that they thought that it was fun.
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