The 2nd Grade Chick

I am just stopping by real quick to show off my little helper.  We are loving my new laminator!! We just have to make sure that we don't laminate in Lucy cat fur. :)  I also took my beat up M&M Count to One Hundred Book and laminated the favorite pages.  Jenna is now working on counting to 100 thanks to this  page.  She practiced 3 times today! :)  I laminated the count by 2s, 5s, and 10s for my classroom.   

So school starts on Monday!!  I'm ready for now.  I'm loving the Turquoise on Dots from Creative Teaching Press!!!  I can't remember where all my printables are from so if you want to know check out my pin board  here  and  here. Daily 5 and reading area.  I'm still waiting for paper lanterns to come in the mail for the corner.  Writer's Workshop, from  Maureen . Post-it flags at the bottom of my class list there.  (You can barely see them, shown at the top of the picture), But I wanted to post that when my students leave my classroom, they put a flag on their name and take it off when they return.   Calendar and Focus Wall, Schedule coming soon!! Leveled Library Check out some more classroom pictures at Mrs. Parker's Linky Party!

Tomorrow I get the key to my classroom so I don't expect to be around much.  So I wanted to get this thought down. The real motivation for starting this blog was to hopefully show parents that it doesn't take much to raise a reader (I know most of you wonderful friends/followers already know this but still.)  You see my oldest reader M (age 8) floored me when she picked up at new book Grandma's at age 4.5 and read it cover to cover.  Then when she went to K I learned that she knew 520+ words.  I never  knew that she knew so much OR how she learned it.  I thought it may be a fluke.  Good genes.  Lucky.  I'm still not sure but I'm pretty sure that I am going to do the very same things with T girl #2, J (age 3).  Here are the things I believe you need in your home to raise a reader.  Hold on to your seats because it is really VERY simple. 1.  Have a bedtime reading routine (we set aside 30 min. but of that time I only read 2 books and they read on their own