Sentence Expansion Lesson 5

During today's lesson, the students engaged with the books "You Are (Not) Small" By: Anna Kang and "Freckleface Strawberry and the Really Big Voice" By: Julianne Moore. The student's got to explore how people feel when being called names and acting out during class. Miss. Julia and I read the books aloud to them and had each of them raise a quiet hand when they found the answer to some of the example sentences we made. We provided three anchor charts for them as well. One was the example sentences, another was vocabulary words, and lastly, was a who, what, when, where, and why chart. The students filled out their sentence expansion sheets using the anchor charts we provided for them, and the one we made together. 









The students then were given colored pencils and got to draw a scene from one of the books and write what they found interesting about that specific scene. Once the students finished their drawings, we went around and shared what scene we decided to draw and explained why we chose it. Each student decided to draw a scene from the book "You Are (Not) Small" as they found it to be the most interesting of the two. 

After they finished sharing each of there drawings, we gave them a quick brain break. For the brain break, we had the students play a game of freeze dance to songs from their favorite movie "K-Pop Demon Hunters" which also involved movements of stretching. This was a great way to get them to engage in a brain break activity and fully get into the movements. 

 After the brain break, Miss. Julia and I had them answer questions about both books in their journals using complete sentences. We gave them sentence starters if needed, and encouraged them to try and expand their answers if they only used one word. 








 Lastly, Miss. Julia and I had them write in their journals either a letter to Patrick from "Freckleface Strawberry and the Really Big Voice" or write about a time where you felt small and why. If they chose to write about a time where they felt small, we then encouraged them to write about a positive way they could react to that feeling. Writing in their journals was a bit challenging as they did not feel like writing anymore. They wrote a little but we had to encourage them to finish this last journal entry and then we would be done for this lesson. We ended up running out of time during the last journal entry and some of the students were a bit sad they did not get to finish, but we told them if we have extra time next lesson then they could finish it. That made them happy and they thanked us for todays lesson and said they cannot wait for next weeks.











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