Throwback Thursday {Summer Linky}

Ohhh…Happy summer friends! :) I hope you are enjoying your beautiful summer days as much as I am. I have been busy working away on my SDE presentation that will be going down in VEGAS (baby!) at the I Teach 1st conference in just a few short weeks. I can't wait to see all of my teaching besties in Vegas! 

I will be presenting about one of my biggest passions…student engagement! I am super pumped to have the opportunity to share some of the strategies that I have found to be extremely successful in keeping those little minds moving and engaged…ALL…DAY…Long! I sure hope these teachers are ready to be up, down…and all around. Can't wait! :) 

I will be back next week to share some more ideas that I have been working on, and to make the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT about where and what grade I will be teaching next year. Until then, I am going to take you back with a little Throwback Thursday post. And since I am heavy into my SDE presentation right now, I find it only fitting that I throw you back to one of my favorite ideas that I will be featuring at this conference! :) 

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Originally Posted: September 6, 2012

This week has been all about adjectives as we try and get back to our “show me” rather than “tell me” writing! Today was our big adjective runway show…NYC style!

The kiddos came dressed in complete runway style ready to work it on the catwalk! And let me tell you…they were FIERCE! I say this often, but this was one of my favorite writing activities! We turned up the music and off they went…

We even had a visit from Steven Tyler! This kid is hilarious!

As each child walked down the runway to show off their fashionable attire, we “rated” their outfit. However, our numbers did not  represent our opinion of their duds, but rather how many adjectives we could think of to describe what they had on. Then we typed up a list of all of our descriptive words to keep in our writing folders.

When our models walked back down the runway, the kiddos held up these flipbooks with the number of adjectives they could name to describe their attire.

Let’s just say the runway didn’t look a thing like this when we were finished! We had way too much fun!

If you are interested in this activity, you can find it in my Suzie Adjective Unit!

Here is a link to our runway jams…

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