Have you used Daily 5 or Cafe in your classroom? What is your experiences? What worked well what did not work well? Please leave your experiences in the comments!
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Cafe Conferring Notebook
This year I am going to be using daily 5 and CAFE during my literacy centers block. I am very excited to get this going and hoping it will help me better understand where my students are at in their reading skills. After reading the Daily 5 book, I was pumped about the school year. I feel like I am going to have so much valuable information about my students on a daily basis and especially at conference/report card time. I have not yet finished the CAFE book, I am taking it slow and creating resources as I read through it. At the beginning of the book the two sisters talked about creating a pensieve to organize information from conferences. So naturally, I had to create a cute/chevron version of the pensieve with all of the forms they mentioned in the book. Check it out:
I'm also starting Daily 5 and CAFE this year for the first time, but am a little nervous about! Instead of Daily 5 I'll be doing Daily 4 as I'm going to read my students as a class instead of the Listen to Reading. I read the CAFE book before Daily 5 and was blown away with how great the CAFE system sounds! Hopefully it all goes well for you! Good luck
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