My class and I have finish our first Chapter Chat session for the year. It was the first time I had run it, and was the first time my students had been involved.
Overall my students enjoyed the choices of activities. My biggest concern is that some of my students failed to really push themselves, this is something I am going to need to watch next term. One student hasn't handed in work in, and the only work she did complete was the art activities.
I have finished this term of Chapter Chat activities, and whilst I really saw the benefit of doing it and sharing I found it extremely hard to keep my students motivated and pushing themselves with the harder activities. I also found it frustrating that other teachers who I work with where using my programme, without sharing anything back in return. With camp also happening in week 1 of term 3 I was wondering about continuing it for term 3. I have asked my students what they wanted to do, and they too decided to have a break from doing chapter chat. So next term we will be doing a Book Club style activity. Watch this space..
