By: Mary Kienstra on: April 2, 2017 in: #tlap, creating, Engagement, reading
Filling out a bracket for March Madness is always exciting. Which team will be this year’s “Cinderella?” How will my favorite team do? Which team will win it all? A few years ago I decided to capitalize on this excitement. In my classroom, it’s Book Madness 2017: Reading in the Brackets! If the brackets […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: May 11, 2016 in: creating, Engagement, measure
What happens when kids create their own Estimation Station questions? They learn how to ask good questions, to measure, and to present their questions and answers in pictures. And… while they work on math, they enjoy every minute of it. All year long the fourth graders have been estimating everything from times of songs, distances […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: April 6, 2016 in: #tlap, creating, Engagement
The first day back after Spring Break is a good day for something out of the ordinary – like revealing the winner of the Book Madness! So today was the day. I gathered my students around the book madness brackets. You know, the bulletin board covered in black with the “DO NOT PEEK” sign. I […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: March 26, 2015 in: creating, Engagement, reading
March Madness with books – it doesn’t get any better than this! If you are wondering what student engagement looks like in reading class, stop by my classroom while my students are working on their book commercials. They are trying to persuade their classmates to vote for their favorite book, the book they nominated for the […] Read more
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