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In our classroom, we decided to kick off the beginning of the school year by creating a Classroom "Family" Quilt. Each student will be sent home with a blank page for our scrapbook. We are asking YOU, their family, and your student to create a page through words and pictures that best represents YOUR family and where you come from!

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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy is a practice that helps kids access their "funds of knowledge" and establish a new "norm". Culture is a social construct, NOT genetic. We plan to have many different resources (ex. diverse literature or family members as guest speakers) that students of one or many cultures can learn from or relate to. The term "funds of knowledge" co insides with culturally relevant pedagogy because it helps to maximize students learning through each students own knowledge and skills that they practice within their culture.

Throughout the entire school year, we strive to incorporate diverse practices that will expose students to all unique types of cultures in the world around us. It is important to help our students be knowledgable, gain insight, and accept different practices across cultures. This will help them flourish and broaden their horizons as they progress as students while exposing them to new cultural "norms."

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Our classroom has a writing corner that will house a conference center. This conference center can be used for Teacher-Student conferences as well as Peer conferences!

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Our classroom has access to a doc camera which, the students will be able to share their work and pieces LIVE on the board for the entire class to view.

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This is a space where students will be taught whole group mini-lessons and also a place where the "author of the week" will share their piece aloud to the class!

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WELCOME to Ms. Emily's and Ms. Lauren's Classroom Second Grade Classroom!

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WELCOME to Ms. Emily's and Ms. Lauren's Classroom Second Grade Classroom!

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Alternative Seating :
This allows students to move around the classroom and choose where they would like to write for the day. Changing environment and seating arrangements can help the students generate new ideas for their writing!

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Our Busy, Busy, Bee's work shop will influence students to develop skills in reading, speaking, listening, writing, viewing, and visually representing.

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Resources for our Second Graders to Help Guide Their Writing During Writing Workshop! 

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Resources for our Second Graders to Help Guide Their Writing During Writing Workshop! 

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Collecting Ideas: Discover what you want to say in your writing. (Ideas, organization, voice)

Drafting: Get what you want to say on paper. (word choice, sentence fluency)

Revising: Rework the text to see what works and does not work to make the piece clearer. (ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency)

Editing: Make the text readable. This is the time you go back and make conventional corrections to your piece. (conventions: spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and paragraphing)

Publishing: polish the final appearance of your writing piece. (presentation)

Expectation informed by the Common Core PA Standards at each phase for our second grade students

Collecting Ideas: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.8
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

Drafting:     CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.2
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.  CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.1
Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.

Revising: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.5
With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

Editing: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.5
With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

Publishing: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.6
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

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The goal of our Busy, Busy, Bee's Work Shop is to have students participate in a writing workshop each and every day. Through this space created they will learn and utilize the different steps in the writing process.
The writing process includes: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.

Components of Writing Workshop:

Mini-lesson : At the beginning of each writers-workshop the students will participate in a mini-lesson that is focused on one specific trait of the writing process.

Independent Writing : First five minutes of writing workshop will be dedicated to "silent time" where the Students are free to start  new piece in their writing notebook or continue working on a piece in progress.

Partner Time : Students can turn to their assigned weekly writing buddy and share the piece that they are working on in their writers notebook. This can also be time dedicated for peer review.

Share : We will pick an "author of the week" who will share their favorite piece of writing from their writers notebook. They will add this piece of writing to their writer's portfolio. At the end of the school year student's will pick their favorite piece of writing from their portfolio and add it to the published class book.