1. Welcome to Our Rockin’ Rookery Education: Then and Now 'Every student can learn, just not on the same day or the same way.' ---George Evans

2. Introductions Ms. Powers TA: Mr. Wilfred ESL: Mrs. Atkinson Our Teaching Apprentice: Ms. Chelsea

3. Units of Inquiry Interconnectedness Time Discovery Fractured Fairytales (Mini-Unit) Celebrations

4. Literacy Differentiated instruction during Teacher Guided Reading and Literacy Centers Writer’s Workshop Lessons with imbedded Information Technology applications Writing Genres: narrative, persuasive, procedural, imaginative, letter writing, and script writing Handwriting: lower case cursive letters only

6. Hands-on lessons

7. Concepts covered:

8. Measurement of: length, duration (elapsed time), temperature, area, and perimeter.

9. Time, money, 2D and 3D shapes, addition and subtraction of multi-digit numbers, and basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts

10. Math Reasoning (Marcy Cook)

12. Home to School Links Elementary School Homework Policy (Alfie Kohn) Daily reading at home Leveled books three times per week and up to three CMC books per week Educational Games on the Grade 2 Portal Home- based activities relating to the units of inquiry Volunteers are always welcome! Our Blog: Powers’ Rockin’ Rookery: http://powerss.ism-online.org/ Email: powerss@ismanila.org