<< A lot of the information was for secondary students or advanced intermediate students, but I am thinking I can use some of the ideas in a whole-class interactive notebook. >>
A couple of years ago I went to a workshop and learned about interactive notebooks. Although it was geared for middle school, a colleague and I wanted to adapt the idea for our second graders. I now teach 3rd and we've done interactive notebooks for math, science, and literacy. I'm sure it is not as sophisticated as in middle school, but it works well. In fact, I had one great success in math that I show to other teachers to exhibit the possibilities. What I do, in math and science, is to either make labels or have the children copy specific information down on the right-hand page. This is usually a definition, main idea, or important note from the lesson. That is 'my' page. On 'their' page, the left-hand page, they respond to what I wrote. I give them choices on how to respond: picture with labels, words, sample problem, etc. In one case, I defined plane and space figures on my page for my second graders and one of my little girls (not a strong math student) drew pictures on hers and wrote, "It's like if you had a triangle, you couldn't put ice cream in it, but if you have a cone you can." Yes! I think she got it :) For literacy this year, I used them with Sarah Plain and Tall. On my page I would usually describe an event from the book and then give the kids choices of ways to respond on their page. Debra _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
