The classroom always has so much going on at the same time. Even though I have visited Mrs. Moore's 2nd grade classroom several times before, it still amazes me how she has the students in a routine where they know exactly what to do as soon as they walk into the door.
Students are learning about China during their social studies period, but they are also doing famous Americans during their language arts period. Even though both of these topics are social studies topics, Mrs. Moore has incorporated the famous Americans into her language arts instruction. The students are using library books, teacher-approved websites and teacher-provided books to research about their famous American.
While some students are working on their famous American research project, Mrs. Moore has her guided reading group reading a book on snakes. She scaffolds the students on looking back into the book for facts and focuses on key words, such as "all," not "some."
For large group instruction, the students are reading from Open Court Reading books. The students are learning about summarizing the beginning, middle, and end. During this discussion, Mrs. Moore continually encourages students to look back into the story to find the facts. In jsut one hour, I was able to observe that the class had a continual flow where the students always were immersed in learning.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
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