Friday, May 30, 2014

Use Your Imagination!

This week in reading our essential question was "Where can your imagination take you?"  We read several poems about using your imagination.  Give Me a Brown Box was about a girl that just wanted a brown box and she could use her imagination to make it into different things like a barn or a castle.  We practiced summarizing and looking for the author's point of view.

In math, we began to review all of the skills we learned throughout the year.  We went all the way back to Unit 1.  The students were amazed at how easy those early skills were now that they are almost finished second grade.

We continued to read Charlotte's Web.  Wilbur is beginning to feel lonely on the farm.  We are just about to be introduced to a special character that will become a close friend to Wilbur.  We did some fun activities to go along with the book including drawing everything in Zuckerman's farm.

Most of the students have finished publishing their personal narratives.  These will be graded using a rubric.

As a fun writing activity today, we made a "Dive into Summer" story.  The students chose three different activities they would like to do this summer.  Then they wrote it into a story.  The finished product will look something like this.


3 more weeks to go...