Bill-- Happy New Year! I tend to celebrate new Year sometime near the beginning of August--but....
Some of my favorite new Year Activities come from Barry Lane. My favorite: Letters to my Class, a combination reading/writing lesson, is detailed on his website (He celebrates New Year in August, too!): http://www.discover-writing.com/aug-sept-2000.html In Letters to My Class, I took some time the last day of vacation to write a letter to my class. I detailed all of my holiday fun, movies I saw, books I read, but also what my reflection on our progress as a class was from August until December and where I thought we needed to go in order for me to be ready to send them on in May. I personalized them a bit--so each class got a variation on the theme. Their job the first day was to read my letter and respond--point for point. It made for a quiet transition into the New Year and the following discussion was rich! Mary Anne ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
