This year I came up with a new idea for how to begin my language arts classes. Each day we do a different activity according to the following schedule:
Monday: Poem Response
Tuesday: Plexer /Analogies
Wednesday: Vocabulary Review Activity
Thursday: Paragraph Edit
Friday: Quote Response
I have enjoyed the results so far and have noticed that my students appreciate (or at least follow without being reminded) the routine. They love Tuesdays and Wednesdays especially. Mondays and Fridays are met with slightly less enthusiasm. I can't really tell what they think about Thursdays yet.
For those of you who are not familiar with Plexers, they are visual puzzles, often made with some arrangement of letters, meant to represent a common saying, person, place name, etc. We are beginning to study South America in my geography classes, so today's Plexer looked something like this:
guay
guay
What do you think it is? Leave a comment with your guess.
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The only place that comes to mind is Uruguay.
ReplyDeleteDennis
Nice avatar image. Draws you in with the look of a flock of birds and yet not like birds.
ReplyDeleteDennis
Your guess is awfully close, but not it.
ReplyDeletePair of guays = Paraguay?
ReplyDeleteGeri
Yeah, Geri! You got it.
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