Today at Wright, we had four new students
join our group. Because of various
school activities that might happen for different students during our RAPS
time, we have decided that each student would choose their own book to read
from the RAPS room. I brought more than
thirty different titles for students to browse, selecting two books, one to
read first and then a second book for whenever they finish their first,
depending on their reading speed. After
finishing a book, students can always choose another book, but I wanted
students to have the option of reading another book right away!
The new students this week also got to
select their own book for September! The boys were very excited to get to take
it home!
After making different selections, students
got the opportunity to have silent read time for about half an hour, while the
soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy
Volume 2 played in the background.
Today, the five students who could join us were reading Dead Upon a Time (Elizabeth Paulson), Middle School Get Me Out of Here! (James
Patterson), Comic Squad Recess!, Space Dumplins (Craig Thompson), and Skeleton Creek (Patrick Carman). Most wanted to have some quiet reading time,
but I was able to read with one of our Wright rappers.
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Books Read Today and I Am From Poem |
After our reading time wound down, I
explained our activity for today and next week: the I Am From poem. Filling in
details about their own lives, like descriptions of their home, sensory
details, and adjectives, students completed about half of the poem today while
we were working together thinking of the different details that could go in
each blank. Next week, we will work to finish
it, and then students will get the opportunity to write it out on a separate
piece of colored paper that they can decorate and truly complete the story of
where they are from.
When I told them they could choose to take
home their completed poem or let me hang it at the Wyatt Center at Vanderbilt
University on the RAPS wall, a few got really excited to show their work at
Vanderbilt!
I can’t wait to see more of their
enthusiasm for reading and creativity!