I give in! I am finally reading the Daily 5, and loving it! I'll start posting my chapter summaries, but for now you can just hear about the awesomeness of the concept. In a perfect world, this seems like a great format for a daily reading program. In the day-to-day craziness of an actual classroom--we shall see. I am definitely going to give this the old college try this year....hopefully all goes as planned!
Hey! Congrats on starting your blog!
ReplyDeleteAlso You will LOVE Daily 5. I started using it 3 1/2 years ago when I was teaching 1st--yep I started it in January with my firsties-and they loved it. I'm now in second and my whole team is doing D5 too. It is fabulous!! :)
awwww....thanks.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea, so far :) We've always done workstations; so this seems like a natural progression. We shall see; I'm sure I'll post about it as the year goes on :)
To make it link work, link you reset the second/chronograph hand back up at the top with the pusher at four. You set it into motion with the pusher at two. You stopped it with the pusher at two. This set the dial at six going for a half link hour. I asked Mark why this timer was a half hour – why not an hour? Wouldn't that be more useful? He said otherwise the gears would be too big. But a half hour is a nice amount of time to know if you're doing something. Walking a dog. Heating up a frozen lasagna.
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