The week has flown by and the final day of our Writing Residency with Ms. Sandy is here.
We had a lot to accomplish today and got started right away!
We started our morning with our Community Circle. This morning we shared something we were thankful for from our week together. Many of us were thankful for the fact that Ms. Sandy came all the way from Arizona to help us learn! We were also thankful for learning more about technical writing and working together in our groups.
After our Community Circle, we started our learning by collaborating to create the writing criteria for our "Math Mobiles" writing assignment. We chunked the criteria into three sections: "Introduction," "Body" and "Closure." We reviewed what needs to be included in each section so that our writing is clear and complete.
After that, it was time for us to learn about the editing process.
Today, we all learned the editing marks that editors use when reviewing written texts. We also reviewed the Editing Checklist and learned that editing our work is OUR job - not the teacher's! We can collaborate with our team and our peers to ensure things like spelling, punctuation and other conventions (paragraph and sentence structure, etc) have all been corrected before sitting down with a teacher for the final edit and review.
To be respect our readers, it is important that our writing is legible, well-organized and error-free.
Equipped with all of this great editing knowledge, it was time to meet up with our teams to keep on working on our writing. There were so much great discussions amongst the teams! We all worked very hard and most teams were able to finish their introduction, body and closure.
After our break, we pulled our chairs up to the front of the room to participate in our first public conference. A public conference is when one writer (or team of writers) shares their revised and edited work with the whole class with the goal of having the writing celebrated. First, the group reads through their writing aloud. Then, the teacher reads through the writing, stopping to celebrate what the writer/writing group has done well. The rest of the students in the class also have the opportunity to celebrate what they noticed about the writing. A public conference is also a time to give suggestions that the writers may want to apply to their work before meeting for a final editing conference. Suggestions could include: adding more details, re-organizing certain parts of the text, and using more specific vocabulary ("Amazing Words"). Editing feedback can also be shared at this time.
Then, it was time to wrap up and say goodbye.
To close our time together, Ms. Sandy played her favourite song for us once again while Mme Careen
showed us the pictures from the picture book.
We were all so inspired that we began to sing along!
It was such an incredibly powerful and inspirational moment.
Before saying goodbye, we presented Ms. Sandy with a copy of one of our favourite français picture books,
Je veux un monstre. We chose this book because it was the inspiration for our current français writing project,
"La création d'un monstre" which was our first introduction to technical writing 4 weeks ago
when our preparation of this Writer's Workshop began!
Mme Buckwold also presented Ms. Sandy with some other great picture books and a writing journal as a thank you.
And then, just as quickly as it started, our time together was done.
We shook hands, shared hugs and headed off for the rest of our day.
Having the chance to work with Ms. Sandy was truly an amazing learning experience.
We will be sure to keep in touch as we continue our writing and we can't wait to share our manual,
The Method of Math Mobiles with her and her students once it is published!
Thank you, Ms. Sandy!
- ET -
Bravo à vous, les élèves! Vous avez travaillé tellement fort cette semaine et je suis très fière de vous!
Reposez-vous bien cette fin de semaine.
À lundi! :)
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