In reading this week, students learned to reread to notice more about a character by looking at the pictures and the words. We used what we learned to really "become" our characters and make our voices match their feelings as we read. Students learned how to...
This week in reading, students learned to connect parts of the story together when rereading. We also began a new shared reading book, Mr. Putter & Tabby Drop the Ball, in which our goal is to learn all we can about the characters. Students worked on showing, not...
This morning author Ammi-Joan Paquette visited us! This was her second visit to Lincoln School. Joan talked to us about her writing process, getting ideas for books, and how she became an author. She told us more about her first published book, "The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking...
Poetry month has begun at Lincoln school. If you happen to be on campus, be sure to stop by the Library Foyer and check out all the great poems going on the “poet-trees.” Several of them are from our grade 2 students, and...
Poetry month has begun at Lincoln school. If you happen to be on campus, be sure to stop by the Library Foyer and check out all the great poems going on the “poet-trees.” Several of them are from our grade 2 students, and...
Welcome back from spring break! It sounds like everyone enjoyed the week off. Monday is a holiday, so students will return to school on Tuesday. This week in reading, students practiced retelling a story after reading, by going back to tell the big events in order from...
Since the fall and our vermiculture assembly, the G1 classroom has been home to a container of worms! We've kept them in a cool, dark place in a cabinet under the sink and fed them food scraps and newspaper strips here and there to keep...
It was so great seeing everyone who came to International Day & the Service Expo on Saturday! If you missed it, find out more about G1's service learning project progress on our class website. This week we began a new shared reading book, Iris and Walter and the Field...
On Tuesday of this week, second and third graders from Paramount School visited us and met with G1 and G2 to work on our service learning projects. Paramount School is just around the corner from us and shares some of the same pollution effects as we...
Thank you to all parents who have already informed us of any days of school your child will miss around Spring Break! This week we began our new reading unit by doing a shared reading and book talks about Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole. Students focused on the...
