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I will take my cue from an OWP workshop I attended in my building years ago. In our Writer's Notebook, our instructor told us to have students skip the first five pages before beginning their notebooks. Then they could number pages and create the table of contents as they went.

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Here is a way to introduce this routine along with other aspects of the class.

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Should there be pre-decided sections? Should we create a table of contents as they go?

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Last summer, I took out the industrial furniture that came with my classroom and replaced it with my first kitchen table and china cupboard. I had a tea kettle for tea, coffee, and hot chocolate along with granola bars and fruit. I decided to call it "The Hive" because I liked the sense of energy and community (and my first name means honeybee). Below is a picture of how it looked.

Last week, I was reevaluating how I would use my blackboard and liked the gallery wall idea, playing with a museum theme. I liked that. But would it resonate with the kids? Did that theme capture the energy I wanted them to embrace? The energy I have been feeling about this OWP class? Nope.

So I decided that I would continue with my hive theme and rework the classroom set-up to reflect this new focus.

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A paradigm shift for me--this is a language class, not reading over here and writing over there and grammar where I can work it in. This is about our shared language and our right and responsibility to it.

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Some of these I had, and some I have recently purchased. I am excited to dive into them with my Grammar Goals as my focus. Two more  books that will arrive in a couple of days are Image Grammar and Write Like This. I'm definitely intrigued by those two!