Amy Bustos Richard

2nd Grade Teacher at Waltham Dual Language School / Maestra de Grado 2 de la Escuela Lenguaje Dual de Waltham

[Mrs. DiMasi @MrsDiMasi]

Sending luck to all of my PROPELL cohort members! Get some rest! Get excited! Tomorrow is the last exam of our program!!!

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Also, a huge thank you to Mayor McCarthy for hosting us at the Waltham Common to wrap up our communities unit!

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Every time we studied a different profession for our communities unit, S used the vocabulary words and sentence frames to write a short summary. Thank you to everyone who volunteered to speak to our class about their professions!!

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

After brainstorming together, S selected a problem and solution for their story!

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Using a graphic organizer, charts and a model, S completed a graphic organizer to describe and draft the setting of their stories.

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Using a graphic organizer, charts and a model, S completed a graphic organizer to describe and draft their main character and secondary character of their stories.

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

With their animal story unit, S read a nonfiction text about dogs and incorporated their characteristics in a fictional story about dogs. 🐶

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Using the story Ernesto Castor, students identified events that are in the beginning, middle and end using this drag and drop activity!

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

In breakout rooms, heterogeneous groups read a text together to determine the importance of the setting of a story.

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

With online learning, we had to get really creative to find information on our communities! DL students used graphic organizers to gather info from both books and videos of different professions around our community!

[Chris Montecillo Leider @cmleider]

It's sad to me that people need to hear this, but for those that do: Teachers are not "going back to work" when in-person and hybrid models resume. Teachers have been working the entire time we've been in a pandemic. #ThankATeacher #ValueTeachers #RespectTeachers

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

This has become one of my favorite morning opening routines! It has been a great way to start the day and have students all engage and practice their speaking in Spanish. My favorite part is that we get to learn about each other every day!

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

The students have done such a great job adapting to online activities using GClassroom! Here is an example of how they gathered information about the fly for their classification writing, and the sentence frames that were used by some students.

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Using a variety of media and text, students helped identify the specific characteristics of different groups of bugs! Using what they learned, they completed a picture sort activity on Google Slides. Remote learning is still learning! :)

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Sketching vocabulary may be one of my new favorite strategies! As we began our new unit on bugs, we discussed these new words with a student friendly definition, a drawing, and with movement (total physical response method). TPR is a great way to get students moving with vocab!

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Thanks to our amazing librarian and technology teacher, Ms Sprogell, for being a guest speaker to our 2nd graders to discuss her experience as a beekeeper! Such an amazing presentation!

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Using all of our resources: sentence frames, transition words, and the clustering map, the students helped me write a personal narrative that consisted of a beginning, middle and end.

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

Clustering is a great pre-writing strategy! For our narrative writing, students thought of a small memory and wrote it in the middle as their subject. Then, they write anything involved with that memory: objects, people, place, etc.

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

@MissLandrysBees Love this! What did you use for this activity?

[Amy Bustos Richard @MsBustosTeacher]

During this read aloud, we analyzed the text to determine the beginning, middle and end of a story, which they applied to their own writing!