Peer Editing

Each student has meet with a teacher or an adult weekly  for a writing conference.  During writer's workshop we work on dictionary skills, punctuation marks, capital  and lower case letters, subject verb agreement...  Every child has been working on individual goals. Now it's time for the student to begin  what we refer to in education as "peer editing."  Today was our first experience with peer editing.   We started by having each child share their writing with a neighbor and the neighbor was suppose to look for capital letters at the beginning of sentences, and punctuation marks at the end of sentences.

 

 Then the students moved around the room while I played music.  When the music stopped they had to lock elbows with the closest friend.

 Students then chose a quiet editing location.  They shared their work with a second classmate.  That classmate looked for any area of improvement that could be made to the piece. 

 Partners volunteered to share their editing remarks with the class.  They pointed out the writing correction that they made to their piece as a result of the editing process.

 Read-a- loud is now going to look a little different for the remainder of the year.  Today we started our next chapter book. The book: Charlotte's Web will be read-a-loud by Ms. Tipton, but I have 13 additional copies of the book that the student's are encouraged to use with a partner to follow along with the text.  This book is not only an example of a personal narrative ( which is currently our writing focus) but, it is also a gateway for me to tie in multiple reading strategies.

 Our "Me on the Map" books are now complete.  Stop by and view the bulletin board outside our room.

 We will be setting our butterflies and moths free this weekend. They are going to travel to a warmer climate.  The students all enjoyed making their own butterflies.  

 Ask your child to explain the community worker interdependence activity that we completed today.  Each student was assigned a different community worker card. They had to tell the class about their worker and make an inference about why this person is important to our community.

 Students then made a web to show our connection to each other.  For instance, a doctor needs a nurse, a nurse needs a pharmacist....    They passed the sting to the community worker that they selected. 

 Then we started losing community workers.  We had no more firemen...  now what will we do.  No more bankers...  The web was no longer interconnected. 

 After school, Meribeth Gaines, Tom Shelton and Julie Hawkins stopped by to congratulate our staff on our recent Distinguished rating.  We are all proud to be part of the Wellington staff.