Catching up ...
We have been busy this week in 2nd grade! The students have been learning about nonfiction vs. fiction and the many elements that make up both genres. Today, we discussed how readers can use what information is in the book and combine your schema to make a prediction of what is going to happen. Readers can do this in both fiction and nonfiction. We used an inferencing sheet from SpeechRoomNews. Pictures will be posted soon!
Gotta Start Somewhere....
Teaching is something that I am very passionate about, as well as golfing, shopping, technology, children's books, and now blogging. The truth is, I really enjoy a lot of things and like to combine my interests if ever possible. I started a class website a few years ago on shutterfly.com. It was a really great way to build a quick and easy site showing parents what we were doing each week. Templates were already in place for me to put events on a calendar, upload photos, documents, and videos. Then, a few months ago I came across several teacher blogs on this site. They were filled with student activities, and teacher ideas while still showing the teacher's personality and standing out. I enjoyed searching the sites so much that I thought I would finally give it a try. Shutterfly.com has been really good to me, however, I think its time to give this a go. Hopefully, this site will not only serve my students' parents, but also many teachers who can take just as many great ideas from me, as I have learned from them.
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