Happy New Year! I hope you all had a peaceful winter break and a beautiful holiday. We are back into the swing of things in 2nd grade. For writing this week, students spent some time reflecting on things they were proud of in 2015 and their goals for the New Year- 2016. One of my favorite goals a student came up with was "Do things the first time my parents ask!"
After students brainstormed and finished their pre-writes for the 2015 reflections and 2016 goals, students had an opportunity to peer edit. Students really enjoy checking each other's writing and giving each other suggestions on how to improve the writing. During the peer edit, students were checking each others writing for capitalization, punctuation and adding greater detail. Here's a look at what peer-editing looks like in the classroom.