Stage Left Children’s Theater is working with William O. Schafer’s second grade students to create an environment where the excitement of the theater is shared by all. Our students will experience a high quality, innovative, participatory theater arts event, taught by theater professionals and teaching artists. The participatory theater experience of A Year With Frog and… Read More Stage Left: A Year With Frog and Toad
Second grade students are currently studying poetry! This week we will read poetry and create blackout poems. Creating a blackout poem is like doing a reverse word search! What you do is read your article, but in a different way than before. You start to notice individual words that when pieced together with other words on the… Read More Blackout Poetry
January 8th is National Argyle day! Argyle is a knitting pattern shaped like diamonds. It is common on socks, vests, and sweaters, and was very popular in the early 20th century to wear while golfing. Argyle became fashionable in England and the U.S. after the World War I. The pattern was identified with the Duke… Read More National Argyle Day
This week we read many nonfiction books, one of which was Bugs, Bugs Bugs, by Jennifer Dussling. As nonfiction readers, we ask questions in order to delve deeper, to better understand a subject. As we were reading, we noticed we did not understand some of the key words used by the author. In order to understand some of… Read More Swap and Solve
This week in library, kindergarten students will analyze information effectively and efficiently by recognizing and differentiating between fact and fiction. Students will read Squeaking Bats by Ruth Berman. This book covers a lot of nonfiction information about bats. It explains in detail how bats find food, how their young travel, and much more. Students will read… Read More Facts and Fiction
Students will enjoy reading the first in the bestselling MAGNOLIA SAYS DON’T! series: If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t! By Elise Parsley. We will also discuss, “What makes a book series?” A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as… Read More Show and Tell: If You Ever
People in every walk of life, in every kind of work, and at every age write! The very social nature of writing invites all people to make meaning through their writing. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) recognizes how important writing is and therefore, established National Day on Writing which is Thursday, October 20,… Read More Celebrate the National Day on Writing
Tomorrow, September 24th is Punctuation Day! Punctuation Day argues that the correct use of apostrophes, semicolons and other punctuation is critical if you’re to get your (rather than, say, you’re) message across. If you’ve spotted any examples of bad punctuation, take Punctuation Day as an opportunity to share them out and to promote awareness! Read: Check out this great punctuation… Read More Punctuation Day