Biographies

     We have continued to read and write biographies this week.  Our mentor text was Me...Jane, a biography about Jane Goodall as a child.  It's wonderful to see a young girl grow up to live her childhood dreams.  Students also learned a little about chimpanzees in the process.  The class did a tricky directed drawing of Jane.  I wanted to do the easier drawing of a chimpanzee but the students were all about JANE.  They came out great.

     Keeping with the biography theme,  our class is also reading a chapter book about Louis Braille.  He has just gotten settled in at a school for blind boys in Paris.  He left his family to attend this school when he was 10.

     Students wrote their biographies for the district.  They either wrote about George Washington or Abraham Lincoln because we had been learning so much about them recently.  I haven't read any of them yet but I'm sure they are AWESOME!  I'm saving the correcting for a SNOW DAY.  Looks like I'll get to it this week.

     Our autobiographies came out great too.  We are in the process of editing them.  Mrs. Maloney has been leading both second grade classes in this Writers Workshop lesson and clearly it has paid off.  I'm very impressed with what I've seen so far.

     Directions will be coming home for our biography research projects on Monday.  Keep your eyes open for that.

     We used the IPADS in class this week.  Students are psyched for them.  Our lexia challenge for March is to level up.  So far we've already had some students do so.  Please encourage your child to practice at home.

     Next week is St. Patrick's Day.  I've got all sorts of "games" planned.  What's better than learning and having fun at the same time????