Saturday, July 10, 2010

End of the Day

We end our day with Cube It. 


 We all sit in a circle. Each child rolls a die, one at a time, and then we read what it says to do together. We have little scraps of paper and several pencils in a container labeled "Cube It" we just use them then. 

We are currently using this with 5th and 6th graders. 

For list words that tell about it, we have them write a phrase using as many words as they are old. We pick a topic that we learned about that day. We learned about bears one day, so that was our topic. The following day we talked about Razzle Dazzle words. That is what I call our Expand your vocabulary words.

1- describe it out loud

2- sketch it

3-List words to tell about it  

4- Tell us what is good and bad about it

5- Compare it...
what is it like?
What is it different from?

6- Connect it...
What does it make you think of? Why?






1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks for posting a link to this- Love it!

I am going to modify this for my firsties and make a poster! I'm excited. Thanks for sharing!

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