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A penny for your thoughts cards8/25/2023 ![]() Triggering students’ thoughts using the saying “a penny for your thoughts” I used the “penny for your thoughts” lesson to help them see that, in fact, they have an infinite number of thoughts in a week. The highest total from any child was fewer than a hundred thoughts. My fifth-grade students in Brooklyn defined thinking as creating thoughts or ideas in the mind, and said that an idea can be a “mind-picture.” Their responses to the third question were revealing. How many thoughts do you have in a week?.Before we start writing, let’s consider a few questions: I want you to take those thoughts out of your heads and change them into words on paper. Your thoughts are ingredients that create writing ideas. I started the lesson by telling students: What happens inside your head will be the spark to motivate you as a writer. My students enjoyed sharing thoughts that told stories of their lives and, in the process, learned to think of these stories as material for their writing-all for just a penny. Once students have begun to articulate their thoughts, follow-up class discussions can allow them to cross-fertilize these thoughts and experiences with those of their classmates, sparking new ideas and helping students who say they can’t think of anything to write. This “penny for your thoughts” exercise is a fun and engaging way to get students thinking about what goes through their minds. Those thoughts in turn can become the starting point for creative writing responses and provide students with the motivation for seeing them through. Every writing teacher at some point will hear the common student lament, “I don’t have any ideas!” Focusing on meta-cognition-or thinking about thinking-can help educators to engage even young students in the complex process of articulating their thoughts. One of my goals, when I teach writing, is to help my students to become more aware of their thoughts so they realize that writers’ ideas are not magical things that fall out of the sky. When I saw my coin jar overflowing with pennies, it called to mind the saying “a penny for your thoughts,” and gave me an idea for a lesson plan: Take one thought and open up a child’s world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pennies from the Heavens of Mind and Imagination. .2–5.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.(Refer to the English Language Arts Standards > Writing > Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, and Grade 5) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” “If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Today, repent and trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift.Genre(s) taught: Short fiction, narrative All have broken God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. But God is not willing that anyone should perish, but all come to repentance. FRONT: Has a picture of our Cross Pennies from Heaven on the front with the words A Penny For Your ThoughtsīACK: the words "On the back it reads: "On the back it reads: "On the back it reads: "Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell.
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