Cross+Curricular

=We are trying to make an effort each day to give students time to practice their writing skills in Math and SS.=

In our SS journals, we write paragraphs to summarize and describe the notes we have taken each day. Sometimes students are asked to create different thinking maps to organize their thoughts, to draw a picture representing an idea and describe what is going on, or create an advertisement or poster for a topic in class.

In Math, the students are sometimes asked to create their own word problems. This requires not only math skills, but good verbal skills as well to create complete and accurate sentences that make sense.

Students need every opportunity available to practice their writing! In my opinion it is one of their lowest skills. :(