Thursday, April 19, 2007

The School Year Is Almost Over

As this school year draws to a close, families please continue to encourage your children to keep reading, stay focused and to do their very best these last few weeks of school!
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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Welcome!

As a new educator, I am always looking for useful tools that will assist families in becoming actively involved in their child's education. Education is dynamic and it is my hope that families will use this blog as a way to stay connected to what is happening in the classroom. In addition to finding resources relative to your child's education, you will also find things that I have found inspirational in my teaching. Some of these things will be written and some will consist simply of a photograph. Use and enjoy!
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Classroom Photo

Classroom Photo
Our Second Grade Classroom

Dear Families

This site is intended to be of use to families of students in my class. You will find our daily schedule as well as links to valuable websites that can provide information about particular disabilities as well as links to websites that provide activities that you can do at home to reinforce what is happening in the classroom. Because families of special needs children can experience periods of intense stress, this site is also intended to be a place where you can come to simply relax by looking at soothing photographs and be inspired by profound, insightful words of wisdom. Look for, and dwell on, the quotes of famous people that are on this site. They will change often so come back often!

Our Daily Schedule--April 23-27, 2007

*Pledge of Allegiance

*Silent Reading/Seatwork-KEEP ON READING!!!

*Reading Groups-We are coming to the end of another unit! Let your children know that you are proud of their accomplishment!

*Recess

*Language Arts-Look for new spelling words to be posted by Sunday evening.

*Social Studies-A unit on how countries worldwide relate to one another, including how problems are solved.

*Lunch

*Math-Review

*PE

*Home

Please check back weekly for updated information about what we will be doing during the coming week.

Photos

Photos
Sunset at Table Mountain

Sunflower

QUOTABLE QUOTES

Read and dwell on words of wisdom from famous people.

***Eleanor Roosevelt***

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.”

***Helen Keller***

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.”

Recommended Reading

Parents, Here are some suggestions for books that you will enjoy reading to your child or children. Remember that no matter how old your children get, reading aloud to them is very valuable in their continued growth in the area of reading!
***There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly by Simms Taback ***Where The River Begins by Thomas Locker ***Home: A Journey Through America by Thomas Locker ***There's A Nightmare In My Closet by Mercer Mayer ***There's Something In My Attic by Mercer Mayer ***Sky Tree by Thomas Locker ***Cloud Dance by Thomas Locker ***The Cinder-Eyed Cats by Eric Rohmann ***Water Dance by Thomas Locker ***The Listening Walk by Paul Showers ***Night In The Country by Cynthia Rylant ***Between Earth and Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places by Joseph Bruchac ***Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London ***The Rainstick: A Fable by Sandra Chisolm Robinson

Wordless Books

These books are books that can easily be "read" by a non-reader. These books can also be used for prompting creative writing! Be creative! Encourage students to write, not simply verbalize, their version of the story being "told."
***You Can't Take A Balloon Into The Metropolitan Museum by Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman and Robin Preiss Glasser ***Time Flies by Eric Rohmann ***Free Fall by David Wiesner ***The Silver Pony by Lynd Ward ***Tuesday by David Wiesner ***Zoom by Istvan Banyai ***Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie De Paola ***The Red Book by Barbara Lehman