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A Weekend Chat is a time for you to talk with your students about what happened in their lives (and yours!) over the weekend. Weekend Chats are pure, unadulterated Personalized Questions and Answers. It connected me with my students, and that is what I lived for. All that to say that blogging about Weekend Chat brings up some wonderful memories.
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My sixth and seventh graders illustrated them, and I kept them on the walls until that group of students finished my program.
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I used Ben’s idea of having students illustrate posters of places around the community to hang up in my classroom and reference as we did the Weekend Chats each Monday. I was introduced to it by Michele Whaley, and I remember reading about it on Ben Slavic’s blog soon thereafter. When I first ditched the textbook, Weekend Chats was one of the very first routines that I learned about and started using in class.