During morning meeting, students use the numeracy center (that Noah and Mohamed put together) to discuss the day's date and the amount of days that we have been in school. On Thursday, September 22, we had been in school for 18 days. One of the activities we do is to use these numbers to make our own math word problems. Students broke the 18 into tens and ones that day so our word problem was using the numbers 10, 8, 22, and whatever other number we chose. Above, is the picture of the word problem we came up with.
Students enjoyed this word problem so much that we decided to use it as an inspiration for our writing workshop. We started with Kendra having 10 dolls and Ubah gave her 12 more. Then we individually wrote what happened next. Afterwards, "Along came Noah who ripped 8 dolls heads off..." and we decided how the story ended on our own. Students were so excited about this prompt that they wrote in complete silence for the entire writing period. Even I wrote my own story! No one wanted to share their ideas because we had decided the stories would be more unique and funny that way. At share that day, everyone was excited to read and the stars of our stories were so proud to be in everyone's writing. We had to keep writing on Friday because there was so much creativity to be shared that students were writing pages and pages on this same prompt. As a class we decided that we would be publishing our works in a class anthology. We will be spending all of this upcoming week editing and revising our pieces so we can publish our writing to share with others. Stay tuned to see the amazing writing of Spruce third graders on the blog's SPRUCE-TASTIC Writing page.
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