We Love Writer's Workshop!
We use Lucy Calkin’s Writer’s Workshop. Each year kids love to write and can’t wait
for Writer’s Workshop time. This year we
are so excited to be piloting the newest version of the Writer’s Workshop Units
of Study! For more information, click on
the link below:
We began the year setting up the routines and procedures so
children would know what is expected of them during Writer’s Workshop and how
to be successful.
Check out some of the teaching books we wrote!
Now we are working on Unit
2: Looking Closely: Observing, Labeling, and Listing Like Scientists. During this Unit, we will study trees like
scientists! We will observe them and
their parts in the real world by going on scientist walks and collecting
artifacts. We will also take our
scientist notebooks on these walks to record our observations. We will read books called Mentor Texts to help
us learn about trees and how to write like scientists. Finally we will put all of our knowledge we
have collected and the use all of the resources we have gathered to help us
write our own books about trees!
Mentor Texts
Collecting Artifacts & Recording Observations
