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Story Time and Paragraph Revisions

Jovanna Sardineta from the Hillsboro Public Library came today for Spanish story time. It is a big hit with the students and the adults. She is so animated! The native English speakers enjoy listening to her read stories, too.

After reading the students' writing yesterday, I decided we needed to revisit this assignment. They made a great effort yesterday but did not complete the task. I sent the writing back to them for revision via MobyMax writing module. Then I presented a frame for the a paragraph that met my expectations. As a whole group we completed the frame then the students had the option of using the frame or writing their own paragraph.
The students and I completed a paragraph about their favorite computer.

Here is a sample of what they wrote after their revisions.

What I like about the summer school program is that we do mobymax and Newsela. Newsela helps me by reading better and learning new things . There is another program that we learned about its called scratch. What we do there is we do a challenge the challenge is that we have to make the stuff that we have  on there move the charecters around.

When I am at summer school, my favorite program to use is math ninja.  I like math ninja because it helps me with math and it has a ninja in it.  I also like it because it helps me do my problems in Moby Max.  This helps me learn because I can practice addition.  I would tell my friends about this program because it is good for learning and you get to have fun.

when i am at suumer school my favorite program to use is mobymax. i prefer this program because helps me with math. I also enjoy that I can work on language. This program helps me to learn by practicing time. I would recommend MobyMax to anyone who wants to improve writing.

I am impressed at how hard they worked on their revisions. It is great practice for both their writing skills and their typing skills.

I also checked in with all the students regarding their MobyMax math goals for the week. Almost all of the students were able to meet their goals. I had some great conversations with them about their success and possibly setting higher goals for next week. A few of the younger students learned about making realistic estimates of their abilities.

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