Three, Two, One

 Thanks to some very generous parents and relatives to my students my class will be receiving 7 magazine subscriptions to add to our classroom library. I intend on using the magazines in a reading center. Students will beable to choose a magazine article to read, then report on it. To train my class how to use the magazine center I did a class activity in which all students had to read the same article. A couple of years ago I went to a science workshop and received 20 copies of the same issue of National Geographic kids, so this worked out perfect. Better yet, one of the articles in the magazine is about beaks and we just did a beak experiment and study in science. I had forgotten I even had the class set of magazines. Anyway, I assigned students partners. With their partner they each took turns reading a page of the article until they completed the reading.

 

Once they read the article, the students worked with their partners to write down THREE new things they learned, TWO things that were interesting to them, and asked ONE question about something they want to know more about. We need more practice building up our stamina to work on an activity like this. I probably should have had them read with their partner one day, then work on the writing part the next day. The students got tired. It didn't help that we did the activity in the afternoon during science, so they were already getting tired.