Layla Henry- Fancy Free in 4th- Blog
Fancy Ideas for the Everyday Classroom
Whole Class Journals: 64 prompts, across genres to have your kids write all year! I LOVE writing, teaching writing and passing on that love of writing to my students. BUT this can be a difficult task because as I have noticed over the past 9 years in the classroom, most kids HATE dislike writing. They get stressed out, rush… Read More
This year we only get 2 weeks off for Winter Break…I know, I know! I should be happy that I get an entire t-w-o weeks off but I am used to three weeks off! I feel like this year’s break has been stacked with activity after activity- and while I am enjoying these activities… I would love a second to… Read More
I have been spending some time over this Thanksgiving Week Break grading a lot of writing because for me writing is the easiest thing to put off- give me a math test to grade any day BUT writing is a whole other story. I really need a lot of time and patience for writing. As I was grading away,… Read More
Last week my students used my Wait, Wait! Don’t Shoot! Persuasive Writing Set and wrote from the point of view of the turkey who job it was to convince the farmer spare their life and eat something else for the Thanksgiving Day Feast. The kids came up with a lot of amazing reasons why the farmer shouldn’t eat them- including:… Read More
I was perusing Pinterest a couple of weeks ago and saw this really cute idea for a writing assignment from Confession of a Teaching Junkie. She made a really cute writing assignment based on the book, My Teacher’s Secret Life by Stephen Krensky. This book is about a kid who thinks that all of the teacher’s live at school and wonders… Read More
Last year was my first year teaching 4th and the year before that I taught 7th. In California, both of those grades have a state test in writing where the teacher has no idea what the prompt will be. It is a mixed bag and we speculate what the prompt will be… will it be summary, response to literature, persuasive,… Read More
