This week was filled with many interesting things that my students discovered about our project. We finally completed our activity called “Can We Talk”. Students finished their comparison poster and learned a new skill all at one time. The students had to get with their partner and complete a Venn diagram about them while practicing communication skills. The strange thing about learning about graphic organizer is that next week’s reading lesson discusses different of graphic organizers. So now my students have a little prior knowledge on how Venn diagrams are excellent visuals.

This week we continue the on-going activity called, “I Caught You”. My students are really trying to work together. There were many instances that I caught students helping one another. I have a student who just recently broke her arm. I was walking my students to P.E. and I turned around and two students were bending down tying the student with the broke arm shoe. I have another student who is in a wheelchair and there is about four students who is helping me with him. They are helping me by giving him his milk and fork during lunch while I fix his plate and even rolling him in the halls when his arm muscles bother him. The other day I caught a student picking up paper in the lunch room that I know her or the class did not put on the floor. One of my students stated that helping others make them feel good. I told them that if everybody felt that way the world would be a better place. I believe that this activity is really helping my student become aware of how helping one another can help them get along better.

At the end of the week we discussed the word” share”. I asked students to think about that word. What does it mean and how do they share with others? I also asked students to determine how do they feel when someone shares with them? Student documented their thoughts and on next week I am planning for us to plan a chew and chat.