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| Cow Boy boots are also stationary paper |
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| The bees are actually stationary papre |
The class pet is a "wild" sting ray they train.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Back to school bulletin boards
Brown Bag Lunch
Wednesday was brown bag lunch for second grade. \
Brown bag lunch is when parents can bring and enjoy lunch with their children after they attend a 20 minute meeting with the teachers.
In this meeting the teachers remind the parents to read everything in the Friday folders. Teachers put information about what they are doing in school and it is a great way for them to become involved in their education at home. The teachers also talk about language to use with the children when they bring stuff home. For example, when I went to school we used barrowing and carrying over but now we use regrouping. The teachers also discussed how much children benefit from reading with their parents.
Actually a lot of the stuff they talked about in regards to reading we discussed in our monthly class. It was interesting to here how teachers worded and phrased what we read in the book.
Brown bag lunch is when parents can bring and enjoy lunch with their children after they attend a 20 minute meeting with the teachers.
In this meeting the teachers remind the parents to read everything in the Friday folders. Teachers put information about what they are doing in school and it is a great way for them to become involved in their education at home. The teachers also talk about language to use with the children when they bring stuff home. For example, when I went to school we used barrowing and carrying over but now we use regrouping. The teachers also discussed how much children benefit from reading with their parents.
Actually a lot of the stuff they talked about in regards to reading we discussed in our monthly class. It was interesting to here how teachers worded and phrased what we read in the book.
Routines
Create an anchor chart for what the morning routine looks like and what dismissal looks like.
Use pictures if needed
What would my morning routine look like?
Dismissal?
Use pictures if needed
What would my morning routine look like?
Dismissal?
"What do I do when I'm finished?"
I was amazed one day last week when my 2nd grade host teacher told the students to have Ms. Boyer check their work when they finished the worksheet.
I was amazed when not one of the students asked me what to do when they were finished.
I asked her how she taught this and she said... she told them when she gave directions that when they finished they were to get their math facts out and practice. Math facts are something she wants the kids to be able to recite really fast. I could always do something like that or if I have seen a "got done choice" chart that the students created.
I was amazed when not one of the students asked me what to do when they were finished.
I asked her how she taught this and she said... she told them when she gave directions that when they finished they were to get their math facts out and practice. Math facts are something she wants the kids to be able to recite really fast. I could always do something like that or if I have seen a "got done choice" chart that the students created.
Colorful Book Tubs
In the past I have seen teachers organize their book tubs by color. So all the kids in the green reading group have a green folder and they shop from the green book tubs which are marked with a green sticker.
My first reaction to that was that's organized.... but what happens when they move up or down in a reading group? Do you change out the folder?? Does that get messy and how much time does that take?
Also, if the kids know what book tubs they can choose out of based on the color of their folder do they every get to find a 'just right book' on their own?
My first reaction to that was that's organized.... but what happens when they move up or down in a reading group? Do you change out the folder?? Does that get messy and how much time does that take?
Also, if the kids know what book tubs they can choose out of based on the color of their folder do they every get to find a 'just right book' on their own?
Thursday, September 29, 2011
I see
Today I subbed halfday.
As I was browsing through her site found through the school I ran across this cool idea for poetry using a fun book kids like called I SPY as inspiration. They called theirs I SEE
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24279567/Microsoft-Word-Horrell-final
As I was browsing through her site found through the school I ran across this cool idea for poetry using a fun book kids like called I SPY as inspiration. They called theirs I SEE
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24279567/Microsoft-Word-Horrell-final
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Think aloud. Text-to-Text Connections
Day 1
After they understand text-to-self connection introduce text-to-text connections.
Read Oliver Button by Tomie dePaola
Talk through the text together, making connections about teasing, bullies, talent shows, and moms and dads.
Day 2
Read Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
When you get to the part where Raj tells Grace she can't be Peter Pan because she isn't a boy... stop reading and put the book down and think aloud.
Connect it to Oliver Button Is a Sissy
The boys made fun of him because he loved to dance. I'm thinking Grace and Oliver are alike in some ways.
Neither one of the charaters gav up
Explain when readers do what you do and make a connection form a book they are reading to a book they have read before they are making a text-to-text connection.
You use connections from one book to help you understand the new story and making predictions about what may happen based on what you know from the other story
When it gets to the part where the class meets for audtions, put the book down.
Make the prediction that Grace will be Peter Pan in the play, because I remember Oliver Button practiced and practice just like Grace did.
After the book is read, ask the class what they noticed me doing when I stopped to make text-to-text connections
Create a Venn Diagram to compate features (characters) between the text.
*Debbie Miller, Reading with Meaning.
After they understand text-to-self connection introduce text-to-text connections.
Read Oliver Button by Tomie dePaola
Talk through the text together, making connections about teasing, bullies, talent shows, and moms and dads.
Day 2
Read Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
When you get to the part where Raj tells Grace she can't be Peter Pan because she isn't a boy... stop reading and put the book down and think aloud.
Connect it to Oliver Button Is a Sissy
The boys made fun of him because he loved to dance. I'm thinking Grace and Oliver are alike in some ways.
Neither one of the charaters gav up
Explain when readers do what you do and make a connection form a book they are reading to a book they have read before they are making a text-to-text connection.
You use connections from one book to help you understand the new story and making predictions about what may happen based on what you know from the other story
When it gets to the part where the class meets for audtions, put the book down.
Make the prediction that Grace will be Peter Pan in the play, because I remember Oliver Button practiced and practice just like Grace did.
After the book is read, ask the class what they noticed me doing when I stopped to make text-to-text connections
Create a Venn Diagram to compate features (characters) between the text.
*Debbie Miller, Reading with Meaning.
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