Our First Week!

Our first week of school went fantastic..............we have a wonderful group of "Stupendous Second Graders"!!

We officially began to work on the "Daily 5" last week. This is a different approach to the "workshop" or "center" part of our daily Literacy block. There are 5 components, and we are learning them slowly, one by one. This week we began to practice 'Read to Self". We have been working on our 'stamina' [ask your child to tell you what this means!] and have reached 11 minutes of quiet, independent, reading. The students are SO proud of this, and very anxious to make it even more! TOur first week of school went fantastic..............we have a wonderful group of "Stupendous Second Graders"!!

We officially began to work on the "Daily 5" last week. This is a different approach to the "workshop" or "center" part of our daily Literacy block. There are 5 components, and we are learning them slowly, one by one. This week we began to practice 'Read to Self". We have been working on
hey are hoping to get to 20 min. this next week - which I'm sure they can! .We will be learning 'How to Pick a Good Fit Book' this week, which will help us even more to become successful independent readers. Towards the end of the week we will  begin our next part - 'Work on Writing'.

Please note that this week we will begin Spelling Tests! Your child will bring home the words in their 'Spelling Notebook', along with a list of practice activities to do in the notebook all week. The notebook should come back to school on Friday, which will be Test day. The students are so excited for Homework......if they only knew!!

If anyone has any large decorator pillows, or bean bag chairs, that you do not use, we would love to have them for our 'Read to Self' time! We like to get nice and comfy during our Reading time!

A HUGE Thank You to all who sent in classroom supplies!  Another HUGE Thank You goes to Kathy Tilton for buying our class a new classroom Globe [the old one was broken during summer cleaning] All  items will be put to great use - you are the BEST!!

Look for pictures to be posted later this week!  :-)