As a wrap up activity to a week of test prep, we made brochures:
Students got to be a little creative and design their own brochures to help with testing strategies. They had so much fun with it!
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Showing posts with label brochures. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2014
Testing Strategies Recap
During our intervention block we've been working on testing strategies with a practice standardized test.
As a wrap up activity to a week of test prep, we made brochures:
Students got to be a little creative and design their own brochures to help with testing strategies. They had so much fun with it!
As a wrap up activity to a week of test prep, we made brochures:
Students got to be a little creative and design their own brochures to help with testing strategies. They had so much fun with it!
Monday, March 10, 2014
Expository Writing, Part 3
As I previously blogged about, my students had a wonderful time researching about European countries. They created brochures which are beautifully decorating our fifth grade hallway.
Since it was Reading Week last week and our schedule was altered, I used some writing time to have my students create informational posters about their countries based on their brochures.
I talked about how this is another way to publish their work and share their information with an audience.
They had a wonderful time learning from one another and asked really thoughtful questions of one another. I'm pleased to see how excited they are about researching since they'll be doing a lot more of this in middle and high school!
Happy learning :)
Since it was Reading Week last week and our schedule was altered, I used some writing time to have my students create informational posters about their countries based on their brochures.
I talked about how this is another way to publish their work and share their information with an audience.
They had a wonderful time learning from one another and asked really thoughtful questions of one another. I'm pleased to see how excited they are about researching since they'll be doing a lot more of this in middle and high school!
Happy learning :)
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Expository Writing, Part Two
As I previously blogged about, our grade level is working on expository writing. We split Europe into four parts and each class took a different section.
The students researched using internet data bases such as culture grams and recorded their research in their writing notebooks.
I was excited to get Northern Europe not only because my heritage is from England and Ireland, but because many of my students have read Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, so they were thrilled to get to create brochures on Denmark and Sweden.
Our hallway:
My wall:
(I had some great student helpers!)
My fabulous team members' walls:
Close up of our brochures:
We printed maps from Crayola's website and of course I used polka dot ribbon to connect brochures with the countries!
As an added bonus, one of the fifth grade classes won first prize in the door decorating contest for Reading Week! We hung the medal in the hallway to share, since we did a thematic unit together.
They had such a wonderful time creating these brochures. It's nice to see them so excited about what they're learning :)
The students researched using internet data bases such as culture grams and recorded their research in their writing notebooks.
I was excited to get Northern Europe not only because my heritage is from England and Ireland, but because many of my students have read Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, so they were thrilled to get to create brochures on Denmark and Sweden.
Our hallway:
My wall:
(I had some great student helpers!)
My fabulous team members' walls:
Close up of our brochures:
We printed maps from Crayola's website and of course I used polka dot ribbon to connect brochures with the countries!
As an added bonus, one of the fifth grade classes won first prize in the door decorating contest for Reading Week! We hung the medal in the hallway to share, since we did a thematic unit together.
They had such a wonderful time creating these brochures. It's nice to see them so excited about what they're learning :)
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