Monday, December 15, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Monday, December 8, 2014
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Monday, November 3, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Friday, October 24, 2014
Friday, October 17, 2014
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
Fantastic Friday!
Friday, October 10, 2014
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Concert Money
Don't forget that concert money is due Monday, October 13, 2014. Tickets are $6.00 each.
Friday, October 3, 2014
Friday, September 26, 2014
Homecoming 2014
Our door for the homecoming door decoration contest! Thank you Amanda Turner and Julie Williams for all of your hard work! We love it! 
Friday, September 19, 2014
Monday, September 15, 2014
iPad Mini Cart
Friday, September 12, 2014
Daily Schedule
Breakfast in the classroom-7:45
Recess 10:14-10:45
Lunch-10:45-11:15 You are welcome to join us!
PE-Monday-Friday for 30 minutes each day.
Library, Guidance and Music-rotate throughout the week to each special
Computer Lab-2:30-2:50 WednesdayMs. Gardner
Friday, September 5, 2014
Back to School Bash
You are invited to the
Back to School Bash!!!
When: Tuesday, September 9th
Time: 5:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Where: Commerce High School
There will be many sessions with great information to make this school year the best yet. Hope to see you all there!
Ms. Gardner
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
First day of school
We had a fantastic first day of 2nd grade! We are working hard this week on getting down our routines and procedures for 2nd grade!
Ms. Gardner
Ms. Gardner
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Welcome to 2nd Grade!
I am so delighted that your child is in my class this year!
We can all look forward to many enjoyable and rewarding
experiences as the year progresses.
Our lunch is from 10:50-11:20 each day.
You are welcome to join us for lunch! We will rotate through specials
from 11:55-12:55 on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and from 1:25-2:50
on Tuesdays.
It is going to be an exciting year!
Ms. Gardner
Friday, August 8, 2014
Classroom Assessment
The goal of assessment is to guide instruction.
Assessment plays an important role in our reading, writing and language instruction. We use formative and summative assessments as inquiry to help us discover what the student knows. We must also create assessments that are developmental. It must be geared toward the student you are assessing, even if this is on a variety of developmental levels. Finally, assessments should be used for progress monitoring. We must use the data from the assessment to determine student growth and learning.
Assessment plays an important role in our reading, writing and language instruction. We use formative and summative assessments as inquiry to help us discover what the student knows. We must also create assessments that are developmental. It must be geared toward the student you are assessing, even if this is on a variety of developmental levels. Finally, assessments should be used for progress monitoring. We must use the data from the assessment to determine student growth and learning.
Assessments data can be collected from:
- Standardized tests
- Classroom portfolios
- Informal observations
- Student conversations
- Discussing and questioning
- Interviewing
- Student work samples
Teaching
Reading in the 21st Century: Motivating All Learners. 5th ed. / Michael
Graves…[et al.].
The Reading-Writing Connection
The purpose of writing is for that piece of writing to be read, either by ourselves or by someone else. We recognize the value of teaching reading and writing in conjunction because they complement each other so well.
To promote a positive reading-writing environment we must provide students an opportunity to:
- Write for important purposes
- What students write should be valued by the people in the classroom community
- Writing should function to communicate or to foster the writers' own learning, understanding or appreciation
The Process Approach to Writing
The process approach is composed of steps students follow to create a final writing piece. The steps include: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing.
Informal Writing Forms
This type of writing tends to occur when a student is writing for his or her own purposes.
- Writing to learn and understand
- Note taking
- Brainstorming and quickwriting
- Semantic mapping
- Venn diagram
- Journals
2. Writing to Communicate
- Letters
- Biographies
- Reports
3. Imaginative Writing
- Stories
- Poems
Teaching
Reading in the 21st Century: Motivating All Learners. 5th ed. / Michael
Graves…[et al.].
Vocabulary Development
Strong vocabularies are an important component of literacy. Understanding the meaning of words is important for students to be able to comprehend the information they do read. Students will use these vocabularies in their own speech, their writing and in their reading. Teacher read-alouds, recorded audio books, independent reading and engaging discussion sessions help students indirectly acquire vocabulary. Even though students will learn many more words than we can directly teach each year, we can give students strategies to become independent word learners.
Word Learning Strategies:
- Using context clues
- Using word parts
- Using the dictionary
Teaching
Reading in the 21st Century: Motivating All Learners. 5th ed. / Michael
Graves…[et al.].
Click HERE for Edutopia's Techniques for Teaching Vocabulary to Elementary Students
for examples of what we should DO/DON'T do in vocabulary instruction.
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