Kindness Unit…Wrap-Up

This is our final week in our Kindness Unit for Imagine It!  We have done a few projects and the students seemed to really enjoy the stories.  Here are some things we've worked on:

As a unit wrap-up - we made Acts of Kindness hearts.  The students made little "match books" for each story.  They reread the story with a partner and then illustrated an example of kindness from the story.  Inside we wrote a sentence about how that story fit into our Kindness Unit.

Our fifth story was Corduroy.  We made an accordion book that illustrated all the different feelings Corduroy had during the story.  I had a sheet from The Mailbox Magazine of the bear faces that they glued onto their book.

For the story, The Lion and the Mouse, students sequenced events from the story.  The pictures came from an Evan-Moore book.

Elves and the Shoemaker

Our weekly story was: The Elves and the Shoemaker.  We had a lot of fun with this story.  After reading the story, we created our own special Elf and completed a writing activity.  They turned out so cute!

Open House Night

My school district has a Meet Your Teacher night the week before school starts.  This is just a quick meeting for the students to say hello, meet their teacher and drop off school supplies.  Then later in September we have Open House, which is where we go over everything that happens in Second Grade and what students will be learning.  I love talking with the parents and after they leave I go home thinking about all the things I forgot to tell them!

Here are the items I had on the desks for parents.  An M & M vitamin treat, a sample of student work, a poem written by the students, the yellow slip is a for the parents to leave their child a note.  The green folder is full of all that curriculum information parents need to know, a password sheet for them to access the reading, math, science and social studies text books, and an Imagine It! spelling list of words for the entire year.

 

A close look at the "poem" on the M & M Bottle

Students drew a map of the classroom.  They colored their desk a special color.  I handed these to the parents at the door so they could use the maps to find their child's desk.

Communities and Maps...

Here are some things we've been busy doing in Social Studies:


We use the SRA Imagine It! series for reading.  In our Back to School unit, we read Little Red Riding Hood.  Then we made a cross-curricular connection and drew maps from Little Red Riding Hood's house to Grandma's house.

Our first unit in Social Studies focused on Communities.  We created triaramas showing characteristics of a rural, suburban, and urban community.  Then in the last section they made a tree map about the three different communities.

We used "paint chip" samples to create our skyscrapers.  Thanks pinterest for the great idea!

We also learned about Florida symbols.  My students created these bubble maps to organize their symbols.