Literacy Stations

It is amazing what we do in one class day in 2nd grade. We arrive to the classroom and quietly put away our book bag, and then silently begin to read. We come together in morning meeting, celebrate and share, and then we discuss the agenda of the day. After morning meeting, we discuss phonics at 9:00 and then our class is broken into groups of students working in stations, small groups centered on specific learning activities. We are either in our reading group, listening to books at the listening center, at the computers where we engage with language learning technology, or doing hands-on word work at our seats that help us understand how words are made, how they are used, how they are spelled and just about anything important you can imagine with how we use or comprehend language. By 10:00 we switch gears to writing. We get out our composition books and begin our writing lesson for the day, have a snack, and by 11 o'clock we are off to either Art, Music, Physical Education or Technology class. Then, we finally take a break at noon for lunch where we eat and relax and yet are still practicing our manners and appropriate lunch behavior. By 12:40 we are happily playing in recess, rain or shine. That's because if it rains we have an indoor recess. By 1:00 we are tuckered out and enjoy a read aloud and reading lesson and then get to read from our browsing boxes (books that we have chosen to read from our libary). This gives us some down time just to enjoy our favorite books. At 1:30 we begin our math study for the day and by 2:30 we are either in Science class or Social Studies. Whew! Our day moves fast and we learn a lot, every day! Every night we have our vocabulary homework so that we can learn at least 101 new words in the 2nd grade. Math homework begins this week so we will also be practicing what we learned in our math lesson Monday-Friday. 


We have a lot of fun learning! Check out some of our class pictures so far!