Wow! What an amazing first week of school. We can't believe how dedicated and engaged our grade 6's are. Here is a snapshot of one of our learning activities this week.
English Language Arts Outcomes:
Use paragraph structures in expository and narrative texts.
Enhance meaning of created texts by using appropriate word choice.
Identify conventions and use them to assist comprehension.
Personal Narrative Writing
We read Finding Muchness, a picture book by Kobi Yamada, and students took some time to identify themes throughout the story. Some of the themes we came up with as a class are perseverance, generosity, determination, self love, positivity, standing up for what’s right, and happiness.
Each student thought about one of the themes (or attributes) from the book that resonated with them and used it to write a personal narrative. We used four prompts to divide our writing up into 4 paragraphs: meaning, importance, personal experience, and goals. This helped solidify an understanding of how authors use paragraphs to separate different ideas.
After the writing process, students read over and edited each other’s writing, focusing on word choice and conventions such as capitalization, periods, and spelling. Students were encouraged to use their spelling strategies, toolboxes, and classroom spelling dictionaries to support appropriate spelling.
We took some time to think about how we could represent the themes symbolically and created beautiful watercolour paintings to accompany our writing. Next week we will publish the writing and paintings together by displaying them side by side.
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