To accompany our study of African animals, we have been reading an assortment of African Folktales and the second graders are loving this new found genre. The fun thing about folktales from Africa is that they usually tell about how something came to be in a fun way. Anansi stories from West Africa seem to be the favorite amongst the class. Anansi is a trickster who gets people and animals to do things for him by being cunning and clever. Anansi is a fantastic way for us to segue into our next unit of study in reader's workshop where we will be learning about character traits. Check out our Shelfari widget to the left to see some of the other books that we've read aloud in class.
On Friday, we celebrated the end of our first unit of study in writing by sharing our published pieces with the students in Ms. Rogers class. The students loved listening to each other's writing and showing off their first published pieces. In our next unit of study in writing we will be zooming in on small moments and stretching the moment into a story. We will use examples of small moment stories from authors like Donald Crews, Audrey Penn and Ezra Jack Keats to inspire us.
This week we will also be beginning our guided reading groups. In these groups we practice reading skills and focus on comprehension strategies through discussion and writing. Your child will be bringing these books home to read once we have read them through once together. By rereading them at home they are building fluency and working on reading it smoothly with expression.
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