Punctuation and Full Moon?

The students did a wonderful job with "Read the Punctuation" this morning! It's great to listen to them read with attention to expression based on punctuation marks. I took pictures and will post them some time soon. Tomorrow we are podcasting the book Yo! Yes?, which we will apply reading the punctuation. Listen to it by going to my web page sometime after school on Friday (tomorrow). Hopefully you can tell what punctuation marks are at the end of each phrase/word by the way we read it.

I hope you are enjoying our daily blog. Students enjoy contributing to the daily blog either alone with our 8th grade typer, Ashley Haw, or as a large group. (Thanks to Ashley) We look if we have new comments or followers every day so I encourage everyone to become a follower-parents, grandparents, etc. I know some people are having difficulty getting the "follow" to work so I will be sending home a sheet that explains how to become a follower. Look for this next Tuesday.

Well. . . I think the students are in a good routine and feeling comfortable after 2 1/2 weeks of school . but today was a little rough when it came to respecting one another and listening. Yes, a day of setback is expected, as the students really have established a great morning routine so once and a while a setback may occur. For the first time, we didn't make our stamina in Read to Self. We fell a little short; yet we increased our "Read to Someone" stamina so that is a give and take. I am very pleased with our progress over the last week so keep it up 3B! Mornings are pleasant and wonderful as we work through literacy. Love it! I am surprised at the shift in behavior of some students, not all, when the afternoon approaches. Maybe when the students go out for noon recess they forget how to treat each other and listen??? Doubt it. If you get the feeling we had a difficult afternoon, you are correct. From 12:30-2:00 appears to be the challenging time of the day for 3B students. What to do? What to do? Well, we had a big class discussion at the end of the day today. Tomorrow we are going to do a few mini lessons on respect and what is a "student's job" in 3B. We will try various other "strategies" also, but I did want to bring it up for discussion. If you are reading this blog, as parents of 3B students, have a discussion with them how they feel the day went this afternoon. It's important to get their opinion of how they feel the afternoon went and the problems that occurred. Again, I stress, it was not all students. This is also common after a few weeks of school when comfort is established. So. . .we move on and focus on what we could do better and ARE doing better. Maybe there was something in the water because all teachers commented that students had a rough afternoon today? Full moon coming, that's for sure!
Have a great 3 day weekend and thanks for sharing your 3rd grader with me.