As you can see from posts on the student blogs children have beginning to share entries from their Writers' Notebooks. Before writing in them we brainstormed possible topics that they wanted to explore.
Next we discussed "I Can.. statements." These are second grade standards. Students can use their entries to prove that they are working on these standards.
Copies of these are taped in the front and back of their notebooks to help remind them of our discussion and to refer to.