It's the Holiday Season

Happy Monday Internet Audience!

I hope you have all had a fabulous day! Mine sure started off great. I had my second formal observation  and the lesson actually went as planned... I fear that now the world may come to an end because of it, but at least I had fun doing it.
All jokes, the world will not end but I was surprised at how smooth my literature circles rolled out today!

The kids have been used to group work and stations so moving to Literature Circles wasn't as much of a transition, but it was still different and I was expecting a freak out session especially during the observation.



I went through the day in a very peppy mood. I am enlightened by how much my students love to work in groups and collaborate with each other. It's either that or they put on a great show.

Students have jobs in their lit circles and they loved this! It helped promote responsibility just like we do at the class level. The other great part of our lit circles is that the kids chose their own texts and I will randomly meet with different groups not because of their low reading scores, but because I want to enrich their novel experience.


I am obviously excited about the roll-out because it allows for the students to create their own pace for learning. No more of this "force fed" information and it is cross-curricular! Yay!

I will continue to update how it goes as we continue on through the novels.
Until then,
Happy Holidays!

HK