Mrs. Kolenberg was reading her tweets one day and a teacher mentioned an ‘author’s chair’ as being a way to encourage children to write during Work On Writing time.
So she bought a VERY special chair that people can sit on only when they have shown that they are an author and have done some fantastic writing.
The chair is almost magical and makes you continue to do really great writing. We can’t wait to be the next ‘author’ to sit on the chair!
During our word work session today we did activities that would help to consolidate our weekly spelling words. We practised Look, Cover, Write , Check on white boards. Some of us then used Bendaroos to make our words. Other people used foam and magnetic letters to make theirs. It was fun and a great way to learn at the same time!
After word work Mrs. Kolenberg read a story and we even found some of our words in the book!
Here are photos of us very busy with our words!
As part of The Daily 5 today we focussed on Read To Someone.
When you read to someone you:
-Sit EEKK (elbow to elbow, knee to knee) 
-Use a soft voice
-Read the whole time
-Check for understanding
-Get started right away
-Put our books away properly.
We have to choose a partner and to do that we look around and make eye contact with someone. We walk over that person and ask them if they would like to be our partner. We are trying to build up our Stamina so that we can stay focussed on reading with someone for a longer period of time.
Here are some photos showing you how we read to someone today.
