Band-Aid Writing

     Write about a time when you or someone you know got hurt. Tell the events that happened and how you and others reacted.  This personal narrative prompt was our focus for Writer's Workshop today with an emphasis on past-tense verbs within these writing samples.
     After completing the writing portion of our lesson, each student was given art paper and three band-aids to use as props in their story illustration.  The writing itself was outstanding, but seeing the band-aid illustrations of these personal narratives really shows what great writers the Cavileers are becoming!

New Year's Resolutions

A resolution is a promise to change or improve something about yourself in the new year.  Our class shared different goals that we had for ourselves in 2012 and wrote our plans to keep these resolutions in the new year.  They are hanging in our classroom as a January reminder of all the great things we hope to accomplish in 2012!  Good luck with your goals everyone!

The Cavileers' Christmas

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How to Blow the Perfect Bubble Writing

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Pumpkin Book Reports

We saw some amazing Pumpkin Book Reports completed in this last week at school. Thank you for the effort and creativity put into the Pumpkin characters for the take home portion of the project.

The students have been presenting the story element candy pieces to the class as book reports. The slideshow below shows the 15 students who have presented so far. We will see the remaining pumpkins later this week.

Students have enthusiastically shared about their books and many have convinced others to read their selections.

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By using Cammy, our document camera, to project our reports in front of the room, the whole class can see each candy story element as it is read out loud. The audience was filled with great questions for each book reporter when they were finished.

Great job everyone!

Pumpkin Characters

It’s October and that means pumpkins are everywhere!  Let’s take this 

harvest theme and bring it into our class for some reading fun! 

This week we are asking you to complete this  

really different book report together! 

The children will be selecting a book in school to read and use for a study of story elements.   

But there's fun for you at home as well. 

Pick one character from their story and create them on a pumpkin. 

Decorate it, paint it, glue things to it, and just get creative!  

(Please don’t carve it though.) 

Use a small pie size pumpkin; any bigger is hard to carry to school. 

Pumpkins should be brought in to school by Monday, October 31.  They will be shared in class and returned home by Friday, Novermber 4.

Have fun with your child while completing this project.

Here are samples of great book reports from other classrooms:

Pumpkin Writers Updated

Five little pumpkins were sitting on a gate, but now the whole class has finished the project and we have 22!  Take a look at our updated slideshow now that all the pumpkins are complete.  Have a great weekend 2nd graders!

Pumpkins - slideshow with music