|My friend who used to teach with me in 3rd turned me onto this
book...it is just too cute!| One of the skills we needed to work
on this week was possessive nouns....so we made a foldable! We
talked about the different nouns that were in the book....and
brainstormed other thematic words. They could pick whatever
nouns they wanted. They drew the picture on the front of the
flap, then when they lifted the flap.... They wrote their
possessive noun sentence. Half my class could do this
independently, and the other half - specifically my ESOL kids
(because in Spanish and Chinese...my 2 languages...they don't
have possessives. Their structure is "The candy of the girl...".
Let's just say my intern is learning a GREAT deal in learning
how to differentiate!) This next activity was inspired by
Leslie's "Inferring with Frank." I used the same format
basically, just with our book, Room on the Broom. Man, I tell
ya, getting some of those kids to actually find the clues in the
book to write down can be challenging! I will