We recorded our Reader’s Theater plays today. This is the first one. We are trying to use expression in our voice. Click on the title below the picture to hear our voices. What do you think? The Tortoise and the Hare Narrator1: Tyler Narrator 2: Catherine Hare: Kamillah Mouse: Isabella Frog: Magalie Horse: Louis Snake: [...]
Entries from March 31, 2010
Our Pen Pals
March 28, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I am very lucky to have a sister (Kathy Tulp) teaching grade 2 in Massachusetts. We started a pen pal project last fall and have been writing back and forth. This is a slide show of us getting our letters and writing back our third letters. It has been an amazing project. I can see [...]
Flat Stanley’s Canadian Adventure
March 23, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Room 102 read Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. It is a story about a boy who has a book shelf fall on top of him and it makes him flat. It is easy for Stanley to go on adventures as he easily fits in an envelope and can travel quite inexpensively through the mail. The [...]
Tags: Media Literacy·Project·writing
Tumblebooks
March 20, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I have another read aloud website to share with you. Tumblebooks.com is a great website to listen to stories read aloud. There is a wide choice of books both fiction and nonfiction. There are also activities and games to choose. If you like Robert Munsch this is the place for you. He is a featured [...]
Reading Aloud
March 16, 2010 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
We are practicing our fluency in Room 102. Fluency in reading is when words are recognized automatically. With automatic word recognition reading becomes faster, smoother and more expressive. Each week we take home a “Bag of Books” to practice our reading. In each bag we have 3 or 4 books and a Reading Log. We [...]
Listen to Books Read Aloud
March 14, 2010 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 2 is working on improving our fluency when we read aloud. Readers are fluent when they are able to decode words with little or no effort, which helps them to concentrate on the content of what they are reading as opposed to figuring out words and sounds. Listening to stories read aloud by fluent [...]
Tags: Reading
So Proud To Be Canadian
March 1, 2010 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade 2 has had fun learning about and following the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver these past two weeks. As a home project parents helped the children put together posters of most of the Olympic Events. We sang “O Canada” in music class and I recorded it. Thanks for helping us with that Mrs. Urbanowicz. Thanks [...]
Tags: Olympics
