Our school district does not set aside a day to have conferences, our conferences had to be done on multiple nights after school. Tonight was my last night of conferences. Conferences went well, it is always good to hear that the parents' of my students are already seeing improvement in their reading! Those comments make me feel appreciated, I don't get that feeling much at my school.
The past month, I have been busy creating and teaching the rest of my first grade team about LDC. I have previously shared with you what my class was doing with the LDC on Citizenship. I wanted to do this again with this one, but it seemed like I was living at school and had no time to blog. This LDC is on The First Thanksgiving. Today was day 6, we have 1 week left. Like the Citizenship LDC, we have had a word of the day. So far, my students have written about Thanksgiving, the Mayflower, Pilgrims, Native Americans, harvest, and feast. Our last 2 vocab words are giving thanks and tradition. My students, and the rest of the students in first grade have really enjoyed this unit! They have been learning and remembering what they have learned about on previous days. This is truly a great feeling! On Friday, my students will begin their final writing project. For the LDC, my students are going to write a report (1 paragraph this time) about how they would celebrate Thanksgiving, like the Pilgrims & Native Americans, or like we currently do today. They are going to be required to give three reasons why, along with an opening and closing sentence. This report will include at least 5 sentences. Completing this type of writing with a group of 19 1st graders takes a lot of time and energy. Our goal is to have our reports finished by Tuesday afternoon in hopes that some of my students will be able to share their reports with the class.
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