Day 2! -Morgan Lueck

Day 1:
Today in Language Arts with my 3^rd and 4^th graders we began our week on writing stories.  The students were very hyper today, and I found myself redirecting them many times during independent work time.  The beginning of the lesson went well.  I read the story The Paper Bag Princess to them, and they were very engaged in the story.  I asked the students questions after the story I found only two students answering my questions.  I made sure to call on the other two students and ask them at least one question about what they thought.  After the read aloud I talked about a main character in a story and had the students fill out a worksheet coming up with a main character for the story they will be creating.  I had one student who was being silly during this time, because he was being very unreal when creating his main character.  He wanted his character to be 4 days old, and I talked to him and asked him questions on how he was going to create a story this way.  He ended up switching his ideas and came up with a great main character.  The students next played around on the app Scribble Press to come up with an idea of what their character looks like.  (The app changed from being free to $2.99 by the way!)  To end the class I had the students write a couple of paragraphs about each character they are going to have in their stories.  The students had about 10 minutes to work on this and whatever they did not finish was to be completed as homework.  I found my students working hard during this time!  I can’t wait to see how creative they will be tomorrow. :)