Week 2: Super Citizens, Buddy Reading, and Boosterthon!

Week 2 was a very fun week!  We used a lot of time to get going in our Reading/Writing Workshop schedule.  I'll try and post our schedule for you on here soon.  Enjoy our video!

1) We began our library check-out days with Mrs. Casas.  She showed us funny videos of our principals showing us good ways to use library behavior.  Then we got to check out our two books.  

Library days will be Tuesdays each week!!

2) We worked on finding Just Right Books.  We did this by reading: 

The author, Jackie Mims Hopkins is a former Cy-Fair librarian and we just love her book!  For those students who attended Lamkin last year we got to meet her.

3) We began practicing our reading skills by partner reading.  By doing this we have a chance to focus reading out-loud with FLUENCY.  We focused on:

• Stopping at periods and commas
• Reading with expression (especially when we see question marks and exclamation marks)
• Reading at a quick speed like we are having a conversation

We first watched Tim Tebow read Green Eggs and Ham on YouTube here.

4) After the AMAZING Boosterthon on Friday, we spent our whole day learning about the magnificent Helen Keller.  We began by watching the Animated History series video on www.discoveryeducation.com.  Then I brought in books from the public library with Braille.  These picture books had the Braille words and on the corresponding page had the words that the kids could read.  They loved reading through the stories in this unique way.  Then we read the picture book of Helen Keller's life: 

And we wrapped up the day answering 10 multiple choice questions about all the information we had learned during the day.

Thanks for another wonderful week with your kiddos!!