Day 2 of our Writer's Workshop!

We had another great morning with Ms. Sandy today!
It is incredible how much we have accomplished already! We are working so hard and
are learning so much about ourselves as writers!
Here's a look at what we were up to today:

We started our morning in our Community Circle, as we did yesterday.
We passed around a talking stick and shared something we liked/appreciated about yesterday's time together. It was so wonderful to hear all of the things that were important to us. Many of us liked having our letters celebrated. Some of us said watching the slideshow and seeing Ms. Sandy's mother's paintings was their favourite part of the morning. A few of us enjoyed listening to the song, "What a Wonderful World" and asked if we could listen to it again today!

After sharing, we jumped right into today's learning goals. We read them aloud together before Ms. Sandy offered more information of how we were going to meet today's "dreams."

We had three main goals today: to be introduced to the peer revision process, to write an introduction for our class problem and to get started on our own writing in our groups.

The big blue sheet Ms. Sandy is holding in the above picture is the Peer Revision Checklist. We each got our own copy as well. On this list there are 10 items that we are responsible to look for when working in teams to revise our writing. We used the checklist to review our class shared write, "Problem 120" that we did as a class on Monday.

When meeting up in our teams today, we each chose one of three roles: Recorder, Reporter, Facilitator. The job description of each role was written on the back of the tent card we selected. (You can see the cards in some of the pictures above; each role was printed on a different neon-coloured card; pink, green and purple).

Working in our groups, we now had a chance to brainstorm ideas of how to introduce our own step-by-step writing. We shared our thinking and came up with many great hooks to engage our reader! Ms. Sandy and Mme Careen also collaborated and came up with a possible introduction for our class problem, modelling that when you have the chance to talk out your ideas with someone first, your writing becomes much more efficient.

The last part of our morning together was dedicated to starting the writing of our group's own Math mobile problem. After having heard so many wonderful hooks and ideas from our peers, we were able to jump in and get started right away. There was so much great discussion among the groups and each team accomplished so much in a short amount of time.

Before ending our morning together, we took the time to celebrate each group by asking them to share what they accomplished and how they found the process of working together as a team. It was incredible to listen to all of the wonderful writing and how the team worked together in their assigned roles!

With two days down and two more to go, we can't wait to see what else might be in store for us as we continue learning together as a team. We are all working so hard and are certainly inspiring the teacher-observers in the room with everything that we are accomplishing!

Bravo les élèves!

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