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Lately, I’ve been receiving so many questions about how I run my small group in 2nd grade. So, I thought I would try to address all those questions and more in a blog post. Now, before I begin sharing, I have to come clean about a few things when it comes to small group instruction. Until VERY recently… I hated… Read More
Wow! What a week! My 2nd graders and I have been up to so much this week, I thought it was only proper to link up with Doodlebugs for… So here are five randoms from my week! Persuasive Writings If you read my post earlier this week, then you know that we’ve been using, “Click, Clack, Moo” as our close… Read More
Do your kids have an Achilles heel? If I were to assign an Achilles heel to 2nd graders in general, understanding cause and effect would be it! Especially when trying to find the relationship between events in a story. Luckily this week, we are working on a close read of, “Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type” by Doreen Cronin. … Read More
Well, we’ve been getting our winter on down here is sunny Fl (well for 3 days at least!) It was fun to wear a scarf and gloves to work for a few mornings. Even though the cold winter weather didn’t hold (seriously was 85 today!) our snow unit did! We used the biography of Wilson Bentley as our “close read”… Read More
Only 5 more days left! Only 5 more days left! This is the line I keep repeating in my head as I am reaching for that bottle of Tylenol in my cupboard. Of those five days, only four are with kiddos. Yes, I have a PD day the last day before Holiday break… (grumble…) This time of year really wears… Read More
Our theme focus this past week was Fall! For the record Fall is my favorite time of year! But… it is a hard concept to teach to students who have only lived in FL (for obvious reasons…) So in came all the fiction and non-fiction books I could find about Fall! To start our unit off, we read a non… Read More
