second grade science
ever had one of those days were nothing really went WRONG... but you just felt like calling a RE-DO? my mini-scholars were awesome and were working hard, and I was teaching and teaching it hard... but I felt like if I could just rewind it, I could have taught it all just a teeny, tiny bit better... eh.
today my mini's started a to look at the idea that seasons are caused by the movement of the earth around the sun. so after some vocabulary and hand gestures, we headed outside and played this game:
here they are, ready to go! well, six of the eight are.
they line up. i'm in the middle, playing the part of the sun. around me are four different skewer placements. four kids get a "season card". as the sun, i turn to one of the skewers and turn on my flashlight pointing towards that direction. i count to three and they are OFF! they have to stand in the correct season place.
they line up. i'm in the middle, playing the part of the sun. around me are four different skewer placements. four kids get a "season card". as the sun, i turn to one of the skewers and turn on my flashlight pointing towards that direction. i count to three and they are OFF! they have to stand in the correct season place.
look at the discussion. one of them in the wrong season at that spot.
click HERE to grab the directions and signs for the game.
click HERE to grab it.
tomorrow - we are going to talk about how Earth itself rotates while on it's orbit rotation around the Sun... send out a pray for me peeps!
second grade intervention
today we did reading/writing/ela centers.
center 1 - assessment, reading conferences, rti data - all that goodness!
center 2 - presidential capitalization and punctuation editing.
click HERE to grab it.
click HERE to grab it from TPT.
my mini-locos kept asking me if each fact was true or not... hopefully that means they are learning and retaining... right? well that, and one mini-loco kept saying a certain female part instead of the word virginia... bless his heart.
center 3 - journal writing
my students just started on their second journal book. i'm blessed to have a group that love to free write. they are able to chose their own topic, but i also provide some starters if they need a little brain starting.
each week, i provide my students will new "brain starters" or journal prompts for those who do not speak maxey. i have a small binder next to my desk area that hold these. i put each page (one page per week, four per month) in a plastic page protector. when monday rolls around, i pull out the new week's page of brain starters, put them next to the journals in the writing center, and students read them as they need them. here are mine for this week
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click HERE to grab them from TPT.
only monday eh? i don't believe it!
Do you have more writing prompts? Those are great!
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