On Monday, we finished our read aloud novel "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. As is our tradition, we held a 'book celebration' in honour of this special event. In the story, 13 year old Brian Robeson is stranded in the Canadian wilderness, and must learn to depend on himself for survival. Food, water, and shelter are just a few of the challenges he had to overcome. For our celebration, Miss Burston and I prepared a scavenger hunt in the library to recreate the many obstacles of Brian's journey. Armed with a list of survival items, they had to hunt high and low for things like fish, water, survival packs, and firewood. We are happy to report that everyone survived!
We mentioned in an earlier post (Feb. 22, 2012) that we are working on our paragraphing skills. Traditionally, the provincial assessment (E.Q.A.O.) has asked students to write a paragraph as part of the short answer writing tasks. As we looked at some of these paragraph questions, we made an interesting discovery...the idea box! This is the box of planning space provided to students on the assessment. We came up with an organizer that we felt would not only help us plan our thinking, but wouldn't make us use up all of our writing stamina filling it out! Below you'll find some pictures of us using the idea box, as well as a shot of our finalized paragraph criteria chart.
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