Journaling is part of our paragraph writing skills. It is also is about writing a main idea and details. We start with indenting. Our topic sentence is about today's date. We write three details sentences about what is happening on the day. Then we write a closure sentence that tells how we think or feel. Students may write more than three detail sentences.
For our next entry, we skip one line. We indent, and we start all over. This activity allows Ms. Leom to model our our new sentences start immediately after the punctuation of the previous sentence. We learn what indenting means, only moving over the first line, and the rest of the lines start to the left, near the pink line in our notebooks.
Ms. Leom teaches the writing skills on Mondays and Wednesdays with her class and Tuesdays and Thursdays with Mrs. Greninger's class. On the opposite days, students work in Mr. Greninger's room. One day, they write a Student of the Week paragraph for student books. On the other day, they write a journal entry. On weeks when we don't have Student of the Week, students will write journal entires. We will learn and practice our cursive writing on Fridays. There are posters in both rooms that explain exactly what a Student of the Week and Journal entry should have, for students who need a visual reminder.
As she is able, Ms. Leom pulls students to conference with them to make corrections. Notes are often included in the gradebook, so parents can see on ParentVUE, and students can see on StudentVUE what they need to fix or work on for the following week. With over forty-five students, student absences, and other life events, it isn't always possible for Ms. Leom to directly pull students for corrections. Please talk to your student if you would like them to rework their learning.
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