Sentence Types

We were working on types of sentences today. As I am writing this anchor chart and working towards making this learning meaningful to the kids...I asked myself...why is this meaningful? I learned the types of sentences and you know when exactly I have used that type of knowledge...when I am teaching types of sentences. So I smile as I create the chart with my brillant 2nd graders and hope one day they don't come back and ask why?

Freedom

We are working on our 4th unit in the new common core curriculm units. We are currently working on freedom. Today we were reading Freedom Summer and discussing the difference between it and The Other Side.

The kids were coming up with some wonderful ideas. I am continuing amazed at how deep their thinking as become as we have moved through the common core units. They are understanding such complex themes...We are working on putting our thinking down into different notebooks...reading for reading, writing for writing...Check out some of our thinking below...