This blog is all about LITERACY at our school. LITERACY ROCKS!
Ms. Crites’ tier group readers read two chapter books. Here’s a VOICE THREAD we made about our books. Sound is not great, but we’ll know better next time how to get it right!
CLICK ON THIS LINK TO HEAR OUR VOICE THREAD: SecondGradeLiteratureCircles
We read Where The Wild Things Are. We talked about Banned Books. Check out our podcast!
Click on this link to learn more about Banned Books!
Afghan Dreams is filled with beautiful photographs of Afghan kids. The kids share their
lives and their dreams in their stories. Our podcast introduces listeners to some of the
kids in this book. We hope you enjoy our final podcast of the year! Click BELOW!
Tuesday: 3 sentence snapshots. Writers use them all the time, so we gave them a try with our own stories. In the afternoon we had an acuity test. We worked in our lit. logs finishing up. During recess, we are learning how to crochet. It’s slow going, but we’ll get the hang of it. We had an awesome Tuesday.
Wednesday Notes: Student Reporters!
Ethan: I like power groups and math. I also like crocheting. It is so, so fun.
Briana: I liked the movie. It was a good movie about baby animals.
Bri: I liked crocheting. It was awesome. You should teach your kid to crochet.
Brooklynn: I loved math today. I also loved how we crocheted.
Alex: Gym was so fun. And writer’s workshop was fun too.
Christiana: I loved the video about the animals. And I love love love power groups!
Andrey: I loved writing. Math went really well.
Allijah: I loved today’s science and math and reading and writing. I just liked all of today!
Dorian: I liked the movie.
Tristin: We watched a movie about different animals.
Cassidy: I liked when we acted like kids from Afghanistan to get ready for our next podcast.
Tionna: Yesterday we started crocheting. I did not know how to crochet the first time. But I tried and tried until I got it right. I was happy when I found out how to crochet. It was very cool. So watch out. Here comes the crochet queen.
Thursday Notes: In the morning we had a LONG Writer’s Workshop. We worked on letters, podcast scripts and stories. In the afternoon, we got to go to the Science Share. The sixth graders did an awesome job with their experiments. We started working on long division in the afternoon. A great day!
Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed wrote this powerful book about refugee kids in Pakistan. Ms. Mohammed brought the book back to Pakistan to show kids in the camps that their stories are being shared with kids around the world. We loved this book and we hope you will too!
Monday Notes: Our IU teacher, Ms. Liz, taught a lesson about GENDER stereotypes today. She read a book called Princess Me to our class. We also learned about IDIOMS, like “in a pickle,” “put my foot in my mouth” and “don’t count your chickens before they hatch.” We are working on our fiction books about important themes. In the afternoon, we sat out in the writing spot and read our Time For Kids magazine. A very pleasant Monday!
Tuesday Notes: Today we talked about IMAGES and FEELINGS in our haiku poems. We also learned about PREFIXES (unhappy, untidy) and SUFFIXES (cheerful, playful). At recess time we had to practice walking in our lines because we’ve been a little too rambunctious in the hallways lately. We did a great job with our practicing! We are multiplying multiples of 10 in math: 7 x 30 and 70 x 300. Another great day!
Wednesday Notes: Wow! Today was a whirlwind. We learned more about how to use the glossary, index and table of contents. Then we worked on the LEADS to our stories, making them as exciting as possible. We wrote interview questions for the visiting teachers who will come to our class on Friday. They are from Afghanistan. We learned about the Underground Railroad in Monroe County in social studies class. EVERYONE took GREAT notes!
Tuesday Notes: We are writing “persuasive essays” in Writer’s Workshop. Everyone found great topics that were important to them. In the afternoon, we worked with mixed numbers. Energy was very high today. We need this weather to clear up so we can get outside at recess ! 
Thursday Notes: Student Reporters!
Tionna: Music was not like other days and art was just perfect. My power group was awesome.
Allijah: I liked when the hermit crab came in.
Cassidy: All my work got done today. My dog Sunshine came to visit this week.
Kieshon: I had a good day. I hope everyone did.
Dorian: I like the crab that Andrey brought today.
Tristin: We had a substitue in library. We read outside.
Brooklynn: I had a lot of fun at power groups. We measured diameters of different sports balls.
Andrey: I can’t believe Sheller came. He’s awesome!
Denell: I liked having library outside today!
Ian: I liked the whole day. It was so much fun.
Ethan: Today Andrey brought in a hermit crab. It changed shells and it has big claws.
Alex: I had a good day. I liked music, art and library.
Friday Notes: The second graders came in so we could share our zines with them. We did research about Indiana frogs and toads in the computer lab. Did you know the American Toad lays over 20,000 eggs? In the afternoon, we had a math test about fractions. We went outside for Science. It was a great day with beautiful weather!
Tuesday Notes: Yesterday, Ms. Adams showed us the blueprints for our new school. And today, we earned our 6 stars at GYM. Hooray! We talked more about Roses In Our Carpets. We are almost done with our next podcast scripts. In math, we are learning about equivalent fractions.
Wednesday Notes: Today we learned about adjectives. ADJECTIVES tell HOW you do something. These were some examples we came up with with our vocab word: I walked tentatively because I didn’t want to wake the baby. I raised my hand tentatively because I wasn’t sure I knew the answer. I put my hand into the hamster tank very tentatively because the hamsters BITE! We wrote in our secret writing spot for 10 minutes. There are already some tulips blooming out there. Everyone worked hard at literature log time. We were working so hard, we were almost late for recess. YIKES!
Thursday Notes: Student Reporters!
Ethan: I like when we learned about signs of spring. Then we painted our Haiku. Professor Menosky came in the afternoon.
Allijah: I loved today, especially the haiku poems. It was fun with Ms. H. and with all our friends.
Keishon: We did fun stuff today. Yea.
Bri: The day was fun. I’ve got to say painting was very fun. And so was Professor Menosky’s visit.
Tionna: I really don’t have much to say, except that power groups were awesome.
Denell: I liked the program, NUTS. I liked the rap song. I also liked the haiku painting and the signs of spring.
Dorian: I liked the kindergarten play and Joshua Bell and the party.
Tristin: We read spring books. We also saw Joshua Bell.
Christiana: I loved the kindergarten program, Professor Menosky and Joshua Bell.
Ian: Recess was so good. And the kindergarten play was nice. I had a good day.
Andrey: I can’t believe Joshua Bell came to Fairview. He’s so cool!
Cassidy: I saw Joshua Bell. He is a great musician. The kindergarten play was funny.
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We loved this book about Greg Mortenson and the people of Korphe, Pakistan. We are reading more books about schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. You might want to visit the Pennies for Peace website.
Our new school is being built right now. We can see the workers right outside our window. We made some comparisons with Korphe School and our new school that’s being built.
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