A Day In The Life Of A Fifth Grader!

This past week we were all busy with MCAS and new projects.  Tori has written about a writing lesson in our class.  This is the first part of a bigger project.  Stay tuned to see the final outcome!

A Day in the Life of a Fifth Grader: Writing Wizards

     During a writing period, the Boucherettes have been working on finding the difference between legends, folk tales, tall tales, fairy tales, fables, and myths. Mrs. Boucher has separated each student into groups where they use their graphic organizers to categorize each book genre. In these organizers, the students pick a book from each genre and then fill in the facts in the packet that each genre has to offer. Not all the genres have the same categories. For example: Legends most of the time have heroes, but fairy tales don't. Although the students are all part of a group, they can't read the same books as their partners. If two students read the same book with smaller stories inside of it, that is okay. The class has spent the entire week of March 17th working on this packet, but this is just the beginning. This organizer is just a brainstorming organizer, so there is still more writing on its way. Who knows what Mrs. Boucher has in store for the Boucherettes. (Tori, guest blogger)

Below is the final project for our non-fiction text feature's project.  The students were all responsible for writing and speaking about a different text feature.  They did a great job!  Click on the link below to watch.

Text Features from Mrs. Klipfel on Vimeo.

Stay tuned for another Day in the Life with another guest writer!