Assignment 7 follow up

As a follow up to our reflection poetry, I will read the poems, a couple each day.  Also, I will use this activity to pick out key words and create a poem in other areas, I already mentioned social studies.  I think this would work as a good formative assessment tool too. 

I also tried the power writing in class and my students love it.  They beg to do it each day!  Next year, I will start at the beginning of the school year simply making lists of adjectives and nouns, then using that list as power writing words. 

I also plan on using the art walk.  I will gather pictures from the early colonial times and have students write one verb, and one adjective for each.  I haven't done this yet simply because we haven't quite gotten to the colonies yet. 

One final way I will use lessons learned is with a variation of the nature walk.  We are going on a field trip later this year and I will take pictures.  I will use those pictures for student responses when we get back.  Students will write about what they see in the pictures, and also use the pictures to recall what they learned along the way.