Connecting With our Class Through Social Media

There are a variety of ways you can connect with our class using social media. Select the one(s) that work best for you.  

Blogger:  Our class blog account

The purpose of our class blog is to provide a more in depth look at the learning in our classroom.  Posts will be updates at least once a week.  For parents, this will take the place of a weekly printed newsletter (parents may request a printed copy of blog posts if they do not have internet access.)  Pictures of students and student work will be posted (with parent permission).  We hope other teachers and classrooms will collaborate with us on our learning.  Comments on our posts are welcome.  Readers will be able to link to all other social media through our class blog. 

Twitter: @2ndGrSuperstars

We will be using Twitter on a daily basis to connect and learn with others.  We will connect with other classrooms and individuals.  Parents are welcome to follow us and share their expertise.  

Facebook:  Like our Facebook Page

  The updates will not be as current as our Twitter page.  They will also be different in nature.  Facebook is a place we will post reminders about special events and periodically post pictures.  If you are a Facebook user, you may want to like our page.  Our posts will show up in your news feed.   

Coming Soon!

Kidblog: Student Blogs 

Students, with parent permission, will have the opportunity to maintain their own individual blogs.  We are currently working on paper blogs in class to learn more about the blogging process.  We will be launching our individual blogs within the first nine weeks.  

Daily 5/CAFE

Our Language Arts block is built around the Daily 5, a structure that helps students develop the daily habit of reading, writing, and working independently that will lead to a lifelong literacy independence.  

Daily 5 consists of five tasks are are introduced individually.  

1. Read to Self
2. Read to Someone
3. Work on Writing 
4. Word Work
5. Listen to Reading

Each task is modeled and supported by teachers throughout the launching process.  It is not something that is implemented in a week or two, instead our implementation process will continue throughout the five to six weeks.   We are learning what each task looks like, sounds like, and feels like and together discuss the student and teacher expectations during each task.  Most important, we learn why each task is important and how it helps us become lifelong readers and writers.   Students will work on building "stamina" until they successfully achieve independence.  Once we have established increased independence, I can begin pulling reading groups and working one-on-one with students.  

Where Daily 5 gives us the structure for our Language Arts block, CAFE provides us with the strategies we will use to develop our reading skills.  

Comprehension (I understand what I read)

Accuracy (I can read the words)

Fluency (I can read accurately, with expression, and understand what I read.)

Expand Vocabulary (I know, use, and find interesting words.)

We will continue to post about our progress and will begin posting pictures next week once we have all the parent consent forms.