Humanities Campus Visits - Snapshots from Bear Creek

In my second campus visit this week, I got to meet many Bear Creek students and see the great things going on in their classrooms.  What a treat!

A few of the highlights of my visit were:

• The creative, thoughtful examples of various word walls in classrooms
• Students writing with confidence and adding details to their stories in their writer's notebooks
• Captivating read alouds that masterfully wove together a focus on the social studies concepts along with reminders about text features that had recently been discussed
• Small group reading instruction in intermediate grade classrooms that was focused on "just right" books and students working to identify non-fiction text features while wearing their "scary" pointer finger 
• Teachers teaching their students about the Cornerstone Task rubrics that would be used to help score the completion of the task for the upcoming unit
• Students completing Google forms with adjectives from the sensory exploration they had just completed
• Students in conferences to help each other apply the editing and/or revision mini-lessons they recently experienced
• The "Book Talk" sign-up sheet on the wall in a 3rd grade classroom where students can volunteer to give their peers a book talk on something they want to share

Several great photos of these and other highlights can be found at the following link (viewing is only accessible by GCISD teachers). 

Enjoy!