Franken-Friday!

Friday was all about Frankenstein!  We celebrated with silly poems, great stories, fun drawings, and freaky math games! We started the day with a video/story of Frankenstein (kid appropriate).  We used the story to discuss the physical and personality traits of this famous monster.  

Then we practiced writing a RADD response to the question "What is an important personality trait of Frankenstein?"  The  RADD writing response is a way to organize children's thinking and effectively and completely answer questions about text.  This is a test taking strategy for short answer and essay questions.  RADD stands for restate, answer, detail, detail.  Together we wrote a very complete answer using evidence from the story to support our thinking.  

Like Dr. Frankenstein combined parts to make his monster.  We practiced using coordinating conjunctions to combine simple sentences into compound sentences.  This is a third grade standard.  See if your child can name the FANBOYS, coordinating conjunctions.

Next we learned a silly song/poem about Frankenstein to put in our fluency binders.  We did a guided drawing to put with the poem.  The students loved drawing him so much, many students made another drawing to put in their SeeSaw journal.  Check them out!

We read a fractured tale of Frankenstein called Porkenstein.  The children LOVED it!  It is such a joy to share a story with students and listen to their giggles and squeals of delight.  Then, we wrote our own fractured tales with Frankenstein.  We have ben working with narratives this month.  In narrative writing, the story needs a beginning, middle, and end.  We made trifold Frankenstein stories so that the students could really focus on the parts of a narrative.  Students chose their Frankenstein adventure.  They could write what would happen if Frankenstein game to school, if Frankenstein came to dinner, went trick or treating with them, or played on their sports team.  The stories were very entertaining.

In math, we had a Frankenstein relay.  Students had to walk like Frank, fill in a missing number on the number "scars" and send up another team member.  The number line scars skip counted by 10s but started at numbers that were not multiples of ten.  For example, 112, 122, 132, 142, etc.  We continued working with number scars by illustrating what a multi digit subtraction problem might look like on a number line.  It was messy math....but a lot of excellent thinking.  Happy Franken-Friday!