Mrs. Langston began the gathering by introducing herself and explaining her responsibilities and efforts in our email, book publishing and other literacy related projects. Students are emailing the authors of books that they like as well as exchanging ideas about books with students in Writtle, England, Minnesota, El Paso, Texas, New York, Indiana, Oregon, and France. The computer teacher then went over various activities that students from each grade level are doing or have done. Some effort should be made to use capitals on names and periods at end of sentences, but the child is NOT expected to make corrections. For math they can make pictures of shapes or stamp amounts to show basic addition and subtraction.
Some students can make some corrections.
For math again they can do what the kindergarten does, but use numbers totaling up to 18. Grade 2 is following the Picture Writing format most of the time. The first sentence tells what the picture shows. The third sentence tells what they are thinking. The fourth sentence tells what happens next.