Hi Everyone,
Right now we are blogging in the middle of our "game" time. Our second graders won the school-wide box-top contest and "game" time was their prize. Let us tell you, it's not easy to concentrate amid the excitement, but at least the kids are engaged on this day before Thanksgiving break.
This week we tried to wrap up all of our reading, writing, and social studies projects. We are just going to share the highlights with you because we have a bizillion things to do to get ready for Parent-Teacher conferences which are next week. We're sure you know how it is. :)
Our final activity to go with The Bremen Town Musicians was to find the theme of the story. The students went back to the story for a third time to do some close reading to find the most important events that occurred. We listed those events and then posed these questions to the students: What did the characters learn about themselves? How did they change? Could we learn anything from their actions? Thinking about and discussing these questions helped us discover the theme, or should I say themes. Our students did a great job identifying many of them.
We revisited our scarecrow poems during shared reading. We worked on comparing and contrasting two different poems and using the visualization strategy to help us make those comparisons and contrasts.
In social studies we finished our first three pages of our Me On The Map books. So far we have learned the names of the seven continents and the continent we live on. We found two great websites that with interesting information about North America. The kids loved reading them so much we had to give them extra time, so we didn't get to our United States page.
Now we are off to a Friday social. It is much needed after this crazy week of report cards. Have a great Thanksgiving.
Kim and Anne
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