Imagination Station

Funded Dec 17, 2011

Thank you all so very much for making it possible for my class to have much needed thesaurus' and rhyming dictionaries. We used the thesaurus' for the first time today as an alternative to the textbook's glossary. It is important for second graders to know that different alternatives to a dictionary exist and when it is best to use each.

I plan to introduce the rhyming dictionaries to the students in small groups. I will give them each a word and have them find additional rhyming words from the rhyming dictionary. I will have them put the page number where they find the rhymes as proof that they actually used the dictionary to find them.

In this time of tremendous budget cuts, it has been wonderful to be able to obtain these much needed supplies for my students.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Friedenberg