HIT: reference skills for 2nd grade?

[Jennifer D Burke <jburke@MINDSPRING.COM>]

I want to thank everyone (hundreds!) of folks who responded to my request
for help with reference skills! I'll post the hit (in case there are other
newbies like myself) after I have time to digest them all (this weekend?) -
there are at least 100!

I may have left the impression that I had 56 kids in the library at once -
actually they were in 4 small class groups over several days. I tried some
of your tips the next day with a group sitting on the floor, and it went
much better. We're doing it again next week for 3rd graders (small groups
again), and this time I'm really prepared!

Thanks again for everyone's help!
Jennifer

Jennifer Burke LMS
Centennial Place Elementary School
Atlanta, GA

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Well, today I and 4 2nd grade teachers tried teaching
> encyclopedia info (VERY basic) to 52 students (2 classes) of
> 2nd graders. The first thing we realized was 30 minutes was
> too short a time to spend on it. The 2nd thing we realized
> was 45 minutes was too long! The 1st class (26 kids) handled
> it much better than the 2nd class. The other group came
> unglued pretty quickly. All 4 teachers and I were frustrated
> - I'm wondering if maybe the initial lesson was just too much
> for 7 year olds, but the teachers said "No, this is normal chaos."
>
>

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