These kids filled their books with sticky notes, marking each and every page when they found evidence. They would come up to me and ask:
"Would "determination" be a good trait for my character?" and I'd say "Well, let's see, do you remember any events in the book that would have shown your character being determined?" and then I would see their faces light up and they'd say "Yeah! I remember a part! It was back in the beginning when he/she......." and so on. I got so much joy from seeing them all beginning to make connections in literature and truly begin to have conversations with their books. When I told them they would be having conversations with their books they all looked at me like I was crazy, but by the end of the week I am sure they all understood what I meant.
One of the projects that the students had fun with was when we made Character Selfies! The kiddos had to imagine that they were a character from their book and think about what that character would have taken a selfie of. They had to decide what their character's mood would be and why that particular event would have been important enough to that character to document it with a selfie. Here are some of the results:
We also made character word clouds with the traits describing the characters we chose! They turned out great and the kids really put a lot of thought into them!
We ended the week talking about all of the things we are thankful for:
I hope everyone had a great weekend and stayed warm with all this wind!
