Daily 5 and Grade 5/6

Two of our Grade 5/6's have been working on introducing Daily 5 and Cafe. 

So my work on Thursday has been coaching the two teachers and the students to do this. 

Today was our fifth session and the teachers have been working on this between visits. 

Their anchor charts are evolving and will continue to do so. 

Today we talked about the impact of Cafe and how to assess and conference while the students are being independent. 

As a double grade they have got 'read to self' and 'read to someone'. They do this with a sense of urgency, community and trust. As teachers we need to work on 'staying out of the way'.

So have all four components working well. We only need to look at 'listening to reading'

We even walked through the Prep space I team teach in and looked at how preps are engaged in their tasks. 

It is an exciting time in our school. 

The anchor charts are available for free in my TPT store  - click here

Moments from my day

 I started my day with the Year 5 and 6's. 

I am working with two teachers and their grades to introduce Daily 5 and Cafe. 

I am enjoying this time and helping to set up these routines. 

We used the netbooks today to start a series of slides to set our own goals for two parts of Daily 5. 

They are doing an amazing job with 'Read to Self", 'Read to Someone','Work on Writing' and today we looked at 'Work on Words'. 

Next week we are introducing 'Listen to Reading'

We did an anchor chart together, we explored where we can get our words from, what tools we need and how we need to work. 

Then I went back to Prep world and we were preparing for our Teddy Bear Picnic. 

The weather was lousy today - rain, hail, sunshine, wind and more rain. 

So we had our picnic in our buddies room. 

Before we went for our picnic we designed a sun hat and made it for our bears. 

There were some unusual hats. 

I will post some pics of this over the weekend.