Everyone has a story to tell. What is yours?
I saw this today and it spoke to my heart. Teaching is one of the hardest jobs, but one of the most rewarding at the same time. I will certainly miss it this year! {source} I’m home with my two kiddos full time this year. When I have a spare moment I have been busy creating some new products and… Read More
I just looked and noticed that almost three months has passed by since I last posted here. I could go on and on with excuses, but here’s the real reason: This little man joined our family in June. We are so fortunate because his big sister loves him to pieces! I have decided to take a year off to stay… Read More
What did you do to celebrate President’s Day this year? Keep reading to find out how these were created: Last week we only had school for 3 days due to President’s Day. We spent that week reading two biographies, completing some graphic organizers, writing a paragraph to summarize our findings, and completing a craft to accompany our writing. We managed… Read More
We have reached the halfway point in our nonfiction text features study. It was time to slow down and see if students could identify the features within a piece of nonfiction text. I have a subscription to Time for Kids (TFK) magazines for 2nd grade students this year. A collection started piling up in October and November. I wanted to save… Read More
In the past two weeks we added to our Nonfiction Text Features hunt by identifying captions, labels, tables, and graphs in our texts. Here is a current pic of our anchor chart with all of the updated features: Here’s a close-up of the pages attached to the chart. Each of these pages matches the ones the kids are putting into… Read More
We continue to learn about the features of nonfiction text. Last week we added bold and italic print to our list of features we can identify: Luckily, students had some idea of what these features were all about. They wanted to quickly point out that these features can be found in fictional text, too. So we have also been working… Read More
