More Shared Journals

Here are a few more shared journals I'm going to use this year. Feel free to use any that you like. The lettering and graphics are from Lettering Delights.

This journal will be for sharing our best days ever. I hope to encourage the use of adjectives. Maybe students will copy and use them from the cover.


Students can write about their favorite animals and their pets in here.


I hope students can share about their favorite books and inspire others to read them, too. I will need to teach about not spoiling the end, giving reasons to read the book, who will be interested in it, etc. I think I will need to write a sample page to give them ideas. I want to write comments to each student's writing, too, since I don't do that with their monthly journals anymore.


I think this one will be easy for the kids to write in. I think it will be the first one I introduce.


If you have ideas for other shared journal, let me know and I'll see what I can do!
That's the scoop from the zoo today!

I was reading about shared journals over at Delightful Daily 5 Cafe. She explains each component of Daily 5 so well. I highly recommend reading some of her posts. This particular post was about introducing Work on Writing to the class, and she reintroduced me to Shared Journals. I remember trying them back when I taught 5th grade, but haven't thought about them since coming down to primary. She had some great ideas and I am going to try it this year.

Here are some journals I came up with. I will glue these sheets onto spiral notebooks (if Walmart carries them in Kodiak this year...). You can click on the picture to download each page.For the students to record their owies.For students to record their favorite things in the whole world.
For students to share their recess shenanigans (instead of telling me!).

I'm picturing students choosing a journal at Work on Writing time, reading what others wrote, commenting on other students' "posts" or starting a new page with their own ideas. We'll see how it goes - I may need to make a T-Chart to share my expectations!

That's my thought from the zoo today!