First, all of my previous writing products are half off, and I've added new writing items for free! I'm pleased, but still amazed, that my venture into TpT earlier this year, and blogging this summer, has been so successful. There is no better feeling than knowing that others are valuing your hard work and reading your words. I just gained my 75th follower on TpT, and my number of blog readers is growing too. I'm joining other bloggers in their policy of making all newly added products 1/2 off, or free, for the first few days for followers. I've enjoyed this myself for the TpT sellers I follow!
Daily Writing
As I've mentioned before, we do 10 minutes of writing MOST mornings. I try to keep these writing pieces short and enjoyable, and so far the students have been seeming to enjoy them. Our Wonders series discusses the 6 traits during the Smart Start, and so I've been integrating this more visibly this year. Of course the 6 traits are something we all teach, but I liked explicitly teaching these traits. They are displayed in my classroom, students have mini posters in their writing spirals, and each day we focus on one trait during our 10 minute writing. As a thanks to my readers, I'm making my TpT product 1/2 off for the next few days. It includes a 17-slide teaching presentation, posters for hanging, mini posters for students, and writing spiral sticker label template.
See my "Tuesday" post to see a sample morning prompt and a pretty hilarious student sample. I've just added a FREE editable product on TpT that uses my writing theme to display morning writing prompts. Enjoy, and please leave some feedback and let me know what you think!
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I also created posters for the three main 4th grade writing types (plus one for linking words and phrases) and just uploaded the mini-posters version for the students to refer to (these are put into the back of their writing spirals). For my own room, I uploaded these to Vistaprint and used a Groupon to get these printed onto 18x24 posters to hang in my classroom (see pic in "My Classroom" page). I've just put the posters, which are also FREE, into TpT.
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| Free on TpT |
In order to hang, they would have to be the large size. I'm sharing these through my Vistaprint account, in case anyone is interested, at the bottom of this post. I do not get any commission from doing this, just thought it was neat that I could share this way. If you check often, and wait for this item to be 50% off, they could be as cheap at $6 per poster.
NOW...for Thursday. I realize that I need to shorten my posts! This will be quick.
We don't do 10 minute writing on Thursday, since we will focus more in depth on writing. We do spend part of this day with some housekeeping items: AR on anthology story read for homework, partner/small group work with the back side of our ELA sheet (see "Monday" post), and hopefully eventually read the paired selection in the anthology text.
The rest of the time will be spent working on writing a more structured writing piece that is either informative, narrative, or opinion. I'll be honest, so far we haven't gotten far with this. We are working on an opinion piece that will hopefully be done next week. If it comes out like the vision in my head (I have some pretty grand visions) I'll be sure to give more details in a later post.
So, that's all for now, hope everyone has a great weekend!
My Vistaprint Items:
Good morning! I nominated you for the Liebster! Check out my post at http://mrsashline.blogspot.com/2014/10/liebster.html and then create your own!
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