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SUNY Geneseo’s Fish In A Tree Activity
This is an activity that the SUNY Geneseo teacher candidates created for chapters 38-40 of Fish In A Tree. This activity would be appropriate for upper elementary students. The activity entails creating a campaign slogan, speech, or poster.
SUNY Geneseo Activity – Fish in a Tree
SUNY Geneseo’s Billy Miller Activity
This is an activity that SUNY Geneseo student candidates created for students working on the book The Year of Billy Miller. This activity would be appropriate for grades 2 and up, and focuses on making text-to-self connections, as well as exploring poetry.
SUNY Geneseo activity – Billy Miller
Fish in a Tree Chapter 34
What do you think Ally’s grandpa meant when he said to be careful with eggs and words because neither can ever be fixed?
Week 5 – The Year of Billy Miller
Shelly Sanchez Terrell aka Ms. Sanchez
I am a teacher who has taught learners 2 to 80 years-old in over 20 countries. However, my greatest joy is in being the mama of Rosco the pug. You can find us on social media #RoscothePug and @ShellTerrell.
Activity:
1. Students take on the role of one of the characters and tell what happened before or after the story. The students recreate their stories using http://LittleBirdTales.com
or..
2. Students draw one of the characters and have the character retell the events of the story from that character’s point-of-view using Blabberize.com or a free app like Tellagami.com, YakIt for Kids (iOS), Toontastic, and Chatterpix for Kids (iOS).
Week 5 – Fish in a Tree
Shelly Sanchez Terrell aka Ms. Sanchez
I am a teacher who has taught learners 2 to 80 years-old in over 20 countries. However, my greatest joy is in being the mama of Rosco the pug. You can find us on social media #RoscothePug and @ShellTerrell.
Activity:
1. Students take on the role of one of the characters and tell what happened before or after the story. The students recreate their stories using http://LittleBirdTales.com
or..
2. Students draw one of the characters and have the character retell the events of the story from that character’s point-of-view using Blabberize.com or a free app like Tellagami.com, YakIt for Kids (iOS), Toontastic, and Chatterpix for Kids (iOS).
Fish in a Tree, the Chapter!
If the author chose the name of this chapter (29) to be the title of the book, it had to be an important chapter! We were alert for Reading Signposts from the start! Here are some that we spotted:
- Again and Again: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Ally running out of rooms
- Memory Moment: remembers swinging with grandpa
- Tough Questions: “Why can’t I read?”
- Kiesha’s Words of the Wiser: “Hunched over and silent is no way to meet the world.”
- Albert Einstein’s Words of the Wiser: “Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid.”
Character Hot Seat gave us a chance to ask these characters the hard questions we have been wondering about. After making a Character Wheel, texting in character for a couple of weeks, and much discussion as we read, we were ready to become Ally or Shay or Albert…or a Halloween character, perhaps!
5SK – Skyping with Miss Wagenhauser
We were super lucky this morning to Skype with Miss Wagenhauser in New York State. She read chapters 30 and 31 from Fish in a Tree and participated in our Character Hot Seating. Both Miss W and the students asked many deep questions that really made our ‘characters’ think about how they behaved in the story towards others.
5SK and I look forward to Skyping again in Week 6 with Miss Wagenhauser.
Skyping with Ms. Fishman
Today we enjoyed Skyping with Karaline Fishman from the State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo. She read Chapter 30 and 31 to us and asked us questions. We enjoyed the skype session and can’t wait to do it again.
Greetings from SUNY Geneseo Educators!
In this video, we introduce ourselves to and tell you a little bit about our campus, which is located in Geneseo, New York.