Thursday, November 22, 2012

The day before a break

What's a 4th grade teacher supposed to do on the day before vacation to keep her sanity in the classroom?  Why a variety of things of course.

A favorite activity of mine is to do a reader's theater during the language arts block.  I usually start by giving the students a chance to look over the script for a brief time to see what part they would like to read before they get into their assigned groups.  This year I used Thanksgiving at the Toppletons.  I liked the length of this script as it allowed for a dividing  of the class into a variety of possible group sizes.  I usually like to do groups that are sized to allow for each student to have a couple of parts--more oral reading practice.

Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!

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