First Weeks...

BEFORE-AGGGGGGGGGG!...

Welcome!

My Second Grade Team that I joined this year already had these made...aren't they great?

We are following Covey's Seven Habits of Leadership. Each grade level and class

created mission statements.

I keep those classroom expectations handy!

It is great for a sub to have them on a ring.

My AGENDA and TRANSPORTATION Board

The "Reflection Desk"

I LOVE having second graders write their own homework- such independence!

Leader-opoly Incentives (instead of Homework-opoly)

Keeping organized...

Hall Display that my wonderful colleagues created...

First weeks have been spent teaching routines and expectations. Students have explored a book basket a day and will select books this week for their personal book bags. We will begin exploring and discussing how to select a Just Right Book using the I-Pick method in the Daily Five book. We will also begin CAFE from The CAFE book- however, I call it FACE for the 'face of a reader." In math, we use Everyday Math so we follow it as presecribed. In science we are beginning a weatehr unit. i will be searching for weather ideas- please share if you have some! In writing, we are finished a prompted writing that I will use as a beginning assessment point. We will decorate the fronts of our Writer's Notebooks this week and then begin learing Writer's Workshop routines. Lots of modeling going on now! Hope your year is going well. Second is super!

Leslie

First Day

Wow- I can't believe the first day is finally here.  All of that "getting ready stuff" pays off in the end... resulting in a fabulous first day. The "getting ready stuff" like getting folders ready, bulletin boards, printing labels, updating the class handbook, cleaning, reviewing long range plans, writing lessons plans...and the list could go on and on and on. But, when you have a successful day and successful students it is all worth it in the end.

Blogging

We are blogging today about blogging.

Love this idea for the first week...

Who Am I? Riddle Book
Have children share facts about themselves by creating a Who Am I? riddle book. Students write four or five statements about themselves. The last line is a question: "Who Am I?" I put this up as a bulletin board and have students guess who each person is. The first person to guess correctly gets to choose who guesses next.
      Tina Williams, Livingston Park Elementary School; North Brunswick, New Jersey