The Hankins Dollar

One of our goals in Reading Workshop has been to both have students working independently reading and taking notes about their reading, in addition to hold meaningful discussions about that work with a partner. Ms. B and I decided to model how an effective partnership discussion might look. We used an article that the students were already familiar with, discussing American money and the famous faces used on the bills. At the end of the lesson we connected our main idea to an inference-notice how it's all American MEN on the bills? That's all we said.

Steffanie and Sophary picked up on our inference model and ran with it. The next day they presented me with a small, dollar-sized slip of paper. The paper was green, of course. In the center of the paper was my face...and on top it said HANKINS DOLLAR.

"Now you're famous too, Miss Hankins!" Steffanie exclaimed.

Awww....the kids make the hard work worth doing.