blog 10: blook club presentations 3

This, the final day, was the best! But I am a little biased because I was one of the groups presenting. 

Our power point malfunctioned at first and the timed portion of the presentation was not working. After tinkering with it for a bit I gave up and just decided to manually switch the slides. I’m pretty sure our presentation was longer than five minutes but that is ok. We went through a lot of information but I feel we covered the book well. Our activity also went really well, better than we expected.

The second group did really well also. I want to buy their book as well. Their activity was a lot of fun! I would definitely use it in my classroom in the future. We created a KWL chart about sharks: what we knew, what we wanted to learn, and what we did learn. It was really fun to learn that sharks can have up to 100 “pups” in one pregnancy.

Blog 9: book club presentation 2

I watched two more ignite presentations for our book clubs and this time was different than the other two. 

 

For the first group, I liked their activity and their presentation but I wasn’t sold on the book. I was supper busy this week and didn’t have time to post about it right away so I cannot tell you what I liked about the activity, I just remember being lost during the talk and laughing during the activity. 

The second group, I really liked their ignite presentation, so much that I might even buy the book! I loved it! The book was the Lady Bug one and I loved how the author discussed integration of Spanish and talked about activities teachers could do for ELL students. However, their activity was really confusing. Their directions were not that clear and we were a little rushed for time. The directions were to ask questions based off of a giant book; I had no idea what kind of questions to ask, like were we supposed to base them off of the title, the contents, were we supposed to read the book and ask questions off of that? I wasn’t sure.

Blog 8: book club presentation 1

I watched an ignite presentation for the books Practical Poetry and Don’t Forget to Write. Both books seemed very interesting but I think I might actually want to buy Practical Poetry for a lot of reasons. 

1: I love poetry and I think it is a great thing for children to learn to read and produce. 2: from what the presentation said, it looks like it could be filled with a lot of great activities which I am always interested in accruing. And lastly, 3: poetry can be used in other areas besides just English, and I learned that through the ignite talk. This book is definitely one that I was to add to my reading list for break. 

Don’t Forget to Write peaked my interest when I was trying to figure out what book I wanted to use for this project; but I am glad I chose the book that I did. Don’t get me wrong, this seems like a great book. The activity we did was really fun. I really enjoyed bringing out the creative side in ourselves and making up an amazing vacation we would go on (I think my groups was the best!).