I did go to Walmart tonight and bought some notebooks to do this during my student teaching. I did not get the good ten cent deal Dr. Kist got. I had to pay fifteen cents! Any way, this is a great activity for a teacher to do because it is inexpensive (whether the notebooks be ten or fifteen cents) and fun for students to do.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Teaching Language and Composition.
I loved the activity that we did in class today. Dr. Kist bought many spiral notebooks. Each one had a subject written on the front cover. All students picked a notebook and wrote about the topic on the front of the book. I think this is a great activity because it simply gets students writing. I feel that by using this method students will be inclined to write more because they are writing about a topic that personally interests them.
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Marissa,
ReplyDeleteI also really liked the notebook activity. I'm doing my unit on short stories, so I thought it would be a fun introductory activity for the students to write a few short stories of their own. I agree that students will be more inclined to write because they are the ones deciding what to write about!
I think the notebook idea was a big hit. I enjoy passing it along every week because it allows students to continue writing in a fun way. This reminds me of the Freedom Writers in a way because Erin got students to write in a diary/journal. This is also a fun idea for students to communicate with each other and share information that they want to.
ReplyDeleteThis would be a great activity for writing or introducing a lesson like Amanda suggested.