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Second Graders--Busy With Nonfiction

My second grade reading group has been working on responding to nonfiction text in their writers' notebooks...and doing a very good job of it. Much of it is working on the features of a good paragraph. We've discovered a few easy tricks just to get the structure down. Overall, they've been doing some great work and I'm proud of them!

So far, we've covered The Aye-Aye, How Animals Move, Bats, Bees, and we'll be finishing up The Emperor Penguin next week. Our next study will be biographies, and writing about our 16th president (and my favorite) Abraham Lincoln. What class doesn't like to read and write about Abraham Lincoln?

Something tells me, we need to study a famous woman right after that. Hmm, there are so many to choose from...Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Sacajawea, Abigail Adams, Betsy Ross, Emily Dickenson, Amelia Earhart, Mary Casatt, Jessie Wilcox Smith, Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Hilary Clinton, ...and Michelle Obama!  Where do I begin?!


Sacagewea






Our Cool Snow Dudes are Melting!

 

 

And one dudette!

Penguins from Egg Cartons

I found this cute penguin chick on Pinterest. We'll make something new from something old...a great example to teach and model recycling while making it a part of our reading and language arts program. This will be added to our Grade 2 reading unit study of Antarctica we will be doing over the next few weeks.

First and Second Graders' Performance

Below, our first graders are performing Tacky, the Penguin Readers Theater before holiday break.  The second graders are reading an excerpt from the How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

 

 

'Tis the Season for Readers' Theaters: The Grinch and Tacky the Penguin

My readers are off to the North Pole--in reading, that is! Santa Grinch has stolen the hearts of the second grade readers by reading a lively excerpt from Dr. Seuss's book.We chose to perform the excerpt in front of a live audience of adoring parents! It has been so much fun practicing it! A great way to use up some of their holiday restlessness. 

Although, not necessarily a holiday book, the second graders will also be performing, "If You Take a Mouse to School", from the book by Laura Numberoff. The first grade group will be entertaining everyone with "Tacky, the Penguin", another fun, seasonal readers' theater.