Our Week in Review April 9th - 13th

Biography Unit of Study -- Goals

Goals:

*To define the biography henry and understand what makes a person have a biography.

*To become familiar with the special text features of this genre that help you read and understand biographies.

*To become familiar with the structure of biographies (narrative vs. informational text) and how these structures are the same and different.

*To understand the purpose of Biographies -- the “BIG IDEA” or “significant contribution” of this important person and their impact on us/society/future.

Literacy This Week

This week in Reading Workshop we read a biography on Amelia Earhart.  During our read aloud we created a timeline of Amelia’s life. After the read aloud we researched the following questions that came up while we were reading:

* Did Amelia’s plane crash?
* If Amelia’s plane crashed where is it?
* Could Amelia still be alive?

In the later part of the week we read various Flat Stanley books aloud. Students
then discussed who they wanted to send their Flat Stanley too. At the end of the
week students completed a graphic organizer filled with information they they are
going to include in their letters to their Flat Stanley host families this week.
Students will be writing their letters at the start of this week, if you have not
already e-mailed Ms. LaRose with your student's host families physical mailing
addresses please do so at your earliest convenient!

We had a very exciting week during literacy in Room 6 and students are VERY
excited to work on their Flat Stanley's next week!

Week in Review -- April 2nd - 6th

The Amazing Mr. MacAuley

On Wednesday the amazing Mr. MacAuley came in to help us kick off our Project Based Learning Project! All second grade students voted on what they  wanted to plant in their classroom raised bed and our class is excited to plat -- eggplant, which I was very excited about! The other 2nd raised beds will include tomatoes, bell peppers, basil and a surprise in the last raised bed!  Mr. MacAuley came in and taught us about how to get our egglant started; we used seed pods, seed and soil to start the process.  To help the eggplant grow we put the seedpods under our classroom grow light.  We really appreciate Mr. MacAuley coming in to help us with this project.  Mr. MacAuley will be in many more times to help us through two more transplants and to check on the plants. In addition, we would like to send a huge THANK YOU to Claussen’s who continues to support our Project Based Learning project with the donation of seeds, soil, seed pods, their greenhouse and compost -- WOW -- that is a lot of donations! 

Room 6 Book Review -- Rikki Tikki Tavi

We read the book Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.  The main character is a sneaky mongoose named Rikki Tikki Tavi.  My favorite character was Rikki Tikki Tavi because he is brave.  The book was about a mongoose trying to kill two cobras because they cobras were trying to take over the garden. Our favorite part was when Rikki Tikki Tavi went into the den to fight Nagaina.  To find out what who won the fight you will need to read the book.

Week in Review -- March 26th - 30th