Presenting Self Evaluated Work- Small Book Project and Formative Assessments--What are they?

The Whipping Boy Small Book Project
Here a student presents their book and rubric. The class can ask questions and get a better understanding of how reviewing work with each other reinforces the concepts learned. The kids are good listens to each other and hold each other very accountable of their classwork. Rubrics based on a criteria list that we generate for any work helps guide learning. It is really cool to see how proud  they are and how honest about their work they are. 

Learning to work the 'Doc Camera' and speak loudly enough to be heard, field questions, and take criticism and compliments is very engaging. Each student loves their time teaching about what they did. 

This is an example of a Formative Assessment. We have been working on prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Each student is writing an example of a prefix with its definition and a word that they knew or looked up. This exercise was part of Cursive and Grammar.--has a lot to do with reading, listening, and applying newly acquired. As a teacher with about 22 feet of whiteboard space  (Thank you to my husband), getting each student to demonstrate their knowledge after first learning information helps me to assess what they get and how quickly.

After corrections and each one making sure work is correct, we review by them reading and talking together and at tables.

It is fun to see the kids bring books and notebooks, ask for help from me and each other to get clarification on what they are doing and how they are doing . They take care and want to show what they are learning along the way. Another fun way for me to assess them--whole class-- that gives me a snapshot is to use the 22 small whiteboards at their tables. We were able to do that together this week for lots of concepts in math dealing with multiples and factors. It is very fun to look out and and see kids holding up whiteboards with writing and information on them.