Colorful Spring!
 A Collaborative Internet Literacy Project   Spring 2005

Mrs. Neddo & Mrs. Hyland:  Second Grade
Pashley Elementary School Library
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central Schools
 Glenville, New York
Class Website

 

Books We Read:
Color by Ruth Heller
It's Spring by Linda Glaser

 

Our Spring Poem
 
Sunny days
Pretty flowers
Rainy times
Ice cream truck comes
Nice weather
Getting spring clothes
 
 
 
Here are two spring illustrations:
 
 
 
 

 

New York Standards

Social Studies
Standard 3: Geography

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their
understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we
live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people,
places, and environments over the Earth’s surface.

The Arts
Standard 1: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Arts

Students will actively engage in the processes that constitute creation
and performance in the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) and
participate in various roles in the arts.

Standard 2: Knowing and Using Arts Materials and Resources
Students will be knowledgeable about and make use of the materials and
resources available for participation in the arts in various roles.

English Language Arts
Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and
understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data,
facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations;
and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically
produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written
language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to
acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.

Standard 2: Language for Literary Response and Expression
Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically
produced texts and performances from American and world literature; relate
texts and performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding of
the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and
performances represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral
and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English
language for self-expression and artistic creation.


Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for critical analysis and
evaluation. As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences,
ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of
established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and
written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English
language to present, from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and
judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.

Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction.
Students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted
conventions of the English language for effective social communication
with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the
social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people
and their views.   

 

 

Floral and Rainbow Backgrounds                       Floral Graphic
© 2005 - Marci McGowan - Colorful Spring!