Monday, March 28, 2016

Interactive notebooks

Anyone using interactive notebooks?  I've been browsing them on Pinterest after Angie Olsen's newsletter from March came out...I've have an interactive notebook set from Nicole Shelby for all of language arts.  Its great in content, but I can really figure out how to fit them into guided reading whole group time frame.  I can see the use for sure, but my days are pretty strict.  I look forward to reading your thoughts, suggestions, etc.

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  1. I use interactive notebooks, but I have made them work for my needs. We too have a schedule and a curriculum that we have to follow. So, I just pull the skill I am working on to use. For example, if synonyms is my reading plans, then I will have the students add the interactive notebook page to their "reading notebooks". I don't use a separate notebook, just for interactive material. We just add it to our regular reading notebook. We do other activities in this notebook as well (story vocab., graphic organizers, etc...). I don't have interactive activities everyday, just when I see fit. With our scheduling it would be super hard to add it in every single day, so I just choose the ones I think benefit the students the best.

    Jamie
    Teaching Tidbits and More with Jamie

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    1. Thanks Jamie. I wanted to do them a couple times a week. But the way I structure my schedule and all the cutting and pasting involved I could inky do them on Mondays when I do whole group only. I don't think I could squeeze in on small groups. One thing I know I will do is make sample pages to show kids what I expect and that should save time. Also, shrinking down to like 90% in adobe when it needs to be glued into notebooks, like a page we worked on or something like that.

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