Wow! What a difference a few degrees makes. We came back to school thankful for the cooler temperatures and began to dive into readers and writers workshop with great enthusiasm.
In Readers Workshop we are beginning a unit of study on the Habits of Good Readers. This week we discussed some of the things that good readers do. For example, good readers have different strategies for choosing books, good readers use bookmarks to keep their place in a book and good readers read in a quiet spot and work on reading for longer amounts of time. It is so fascinating to see how students choose books and the many different genres that they are already interested in.
In Writers Workshop the students were introduced to the three important parts of a story-the beginning, middle and end. After guided practice as a group they got together in pairs to practice orally telling a beginning, middle and end story about their summer. Next week we will take our oral stories and turn them into our first writing pieces.
Next week we are going to begin a unit on the five senses. The students will get to go to different workshops over the next five weeks in each of the
different Synergy classrooms. This will be a great opportunity to interact and learn with other first and second grade friends and teachers. Be sure to look for updates about our science discoveries!
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