I have not been consistently implementing my action. I have found that time is limited and transitioning is hard. Instead of having 2 meetings a day I am going to transition to 1 meeting a week. Students will meet with their Critical Friend on Fridays to discuss their work of the week and create a goal for the following week. Instead of having students create a hope for the day and reflect they are going to do the action backwards.Friday: Students will share Word Work, books from their book bin, and a reflection of Listen to Reading. They will work together to complete a rubric. Then they will write a goal for the following week.
Monday: Students will review their goal with their CF.
I look forward to hearing how the critical friend concept works in 1st grade. My class "buddies" with a kindergarten classroom. (I teach 5th grade). The role they play is of the coach working on handwriting, letter and number recognition and other kindergarten activities. We did the newspaper and garbage bag activity to help them see that being happy and positive is great, but their role is to help them do it better. This was great for my 5th graders. Do you think it would work for 1st grade? Modified? Just an idea.
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