November Activities

Hi Friends,

I've been spending most of my weekend writing report cards. 

I thought I'd take a break from all that and stop by to let you know what we will be doing this month.

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Veterans Day and Remembrance Day

Hi Friends,

Today, in Second Grade we learned all about soldiers.

I think it is very important for students to know about the brave people who work hard to make sure that we are safe and free.

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Five for Friday

Hey Everyone,

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for some Five for Friday Fun!

1. Thanksgiving

Here in Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving in October. Here are some pictures of what we did this year! We had so much fun writing stories, building turkeys, and disguising turkeys too!

   

   

Click HERE for a detailed post about these unit.

Click on the pictures for a direct link to these products!

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Five for Friday

Hey Everyone,

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for some Five for Friday Fun!

1. Remembrance Day/ Veterans Day

After wrapping up our first term this week, we will begin our new term with my Let's Honor and Remember pack. It's so important for students to know and understand what our veterans and present servicemen and women have done AND do for us each day. 

Click HERE for a detailed post about this unit.

Click on the picture for a direct link to this product!

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Let's Honor & Remember

Good Morning Friends, 

This week in Second Grade, we are going to be honoring and remembering our veterans. 

This is an important unit for me because my grandfather was a veteran and I feel it is essential to teach students about the brave men and women who have fought for our safety and freedom. 

I also find that students are very interested in learning about veterans and the various jobs and roles they hold. 

We learn all about this in my Veterans/Remembrance Day read aloud. We also learn all kinds of new vocabulary. Words that describe veterans. 

These words are also included in our black and white version of the read aloud, as well as the spelling helpers. 

   

After reading the read aloud, highlighting vocabulary words, and reviewing the spelling helpers, students complete a veteran map. They use adjectives to describe veterans and then write stories about them.

They make a craft to go along with their stories.

Some students then share their stories at our Remembrance/Veterans Day assembly. 

You can check out this pack right HERE!

Until next time...

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Let's Honor and Remember

Hello Everyone,

This has been one hectic week and it shall continue to be crazy until that bell rings at 2h25, on Friday! Tomorrow my student teacher is being evaluated and we have our Remembrance Day Assembly. It was the only day we could have a veteran come in and speak to the children. Friday is the end of the first term and we all know how crazy that is!!! 

With that being said, despite all the running around, like a chicken with no head, we are managing to get in some learning and fun! My kiddies are looooooving my Let's Honor and Remember a Remembrance/Veterans Day Read Aloud and Craftivity Pack!  They love to share about how they have family members in the armed forces and are very interested in this subject. They are also very respectful and truly do want to honor our veterans.

We started off by reading the read aloud on the Smart board. I also like to make a hard copy of my read alouds so that the students can refer back to them at any given time. I usually send them off to be printed at Staples (quite cost efficient) and laminate them at home.  I even upload them to my classroom Ipads! That pdf app is sure nifty! 

We read the story together, using a pointer. I like to read the page and then have the students read altogether. This is when I model correct fluency and intonation. We discuss new vocabulary and circle capitals and periods. 

Then, we go back to our seats and read the black and white version of the read aloud. This is where the students play detective and illustrator. This time I ask a student to read the page and then we read it altogether again. This is where those fun "witchy" fingers come into play. I know we all love to stock up on those at Halloween! They just do the trick don't they?!

I also give the students a highlighter, another big motivation for them! We highlight new vocabulary words and theme words. They love it! 

These kiddies have to be the cutest artists I've ever met! I love their creativity and artwork. It's amazing!

After we are done with our read aloud, we move on to the writer's workshop and craftivity portion of our unit. First, I introduce the spelling helpers. I find it really important to go over all vocabulary words with the students before we use them. 

It's a great way to go over what they learned in the first part of this lesson, as many of the spelling helper words are introduced in the read aloud. Thus, this is the third time the students are being exposed to many of these words. 

After going over the words, we decided to create an adjective map to describe a soldier. We brainstormed on the board and the students chose the words they liked best and wrote them on their graphic organizer. This little sweetheart thinks soldiers are REALLY helpful, she wrote it twice!

Tomorrow, my sweet kiddies are going to write all about soldiers! It should look a little something like this when completed...

You can check out this pack right over HERE!

I have also prepared a little freebie for you!

It's a little taste of my pack... I tweaked it a tad as I'd like to use it with my other class, 

but the essence is there!

You can grab THIS right over HERE!

Until next time...

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Halloween, A Sale and a New Unit

Hey Everyone!

Twice in one week, I must really be getting back into the swing of things! Just wanted to stop by quickly and let you know that I am having a sale tonight and tomorrow! Everything in my TpT store is 20% off! Grab yourself a treat!

Thanks again to Krista, over at The Creative Chalkboard, for yet another adorable sale sign. I am seriously obsessed with everything she creates!!!! What a talent!

Stop by my STORE and grab some great Thanksgiving, and Remembrance/Veterans Day packs! And much, much more of course!

I'm extending my sale to tomorrow too! I wanted to celebrate Halloween and the first day of Movember! 

Here's a little something I put together to support Movember! 

I looooove pretty nails!

I'm also going to wear my "STACHE" sweater that I picked up in London in July! I've been wanting to wear it for so long, but as it is a SWEATER, I had to wait a little while!

Here's a little glimpse at today! My Halloween costume cost all of 15$ and was a great hit! I must admit, I was in FULL character mode this morning and refused to speak! Apparently, I'm pretty good at the whole mime thing! Although, some students thought I was dressed up as a Parisian and didn't understand why I wasn't talking!!! HEHEHE!

What a fun day! The kiddies were so excited and their costumes were great! Now, tomorrowwwwwww, should be interesting! Exhausted, sugared up 7 year olds! Yipppeeee!

Ok last thing!

I just whipped this up and can't wait to use it with the kiddies next week! It includes a craft, a word detective activity, and a read aloud!

Grab it while it's 20% off!

Sent it to my good friend Val over at All Students Can Shine to proofread and her words were: Perfect, I was wondering what to with the kiddies next week and now I know! hehe! I love having a bloggie friend close by! Along with Leslie over at First Grade Frenzy, I'm well surrounded. :):):):):)

Happy Halloween!

Until next time...

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